To get your bookmarks, passwords and open tabs from your computer onto your phone, sign in to Chrome on the phone with the same Google Account you use on the computer. In Chrome on Android, iPhone or iPad, tap More (three dots) > Settings > Sign in, pick your account and tap Continue as. Your open tabs and history only come across if you also turn on History and tabs, as shown below. These steps follow Google’s help on signing in to Chrome and getting your info on all your devices.
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What comes across when you sign in
Google’s help lists bookmarks, your Reading list, passwords, payment info, addresses and other saved details, and settings and preferences. It is all saved in your Google Account and appears on every device where you are signed in to Chrome with that account.
To bring over your open tabs and browsing history as well:
- Open Chrome and tap More > Settings.
- At the top, tap the name of your account.
- Turn on History and tabs.
On the same screen you can choose what else is saved to your Google Account. If you saved bookmarks or passwords on the phone before you signed in, they stay only on the phone. To add them to your account, tap your name > Save in account, choose what to save, then tap Save in account again.
Open a tab from your computer on your phone
- Make sure you are signed in with the same account on both devices and History and tabs is turned on.
- On Android, tap More to the right of the address bar, then Recent tabs.
- On iPhone or iPad, tap More, scroll the row of buttons to the right, then tap Recent tabs.
- Tap the tab you want to open.
Use bookmarks on your phone
- Open your bookmarks: tap More > Bookmarks. On Android, if your address bar is at the bottom of the screen, swipe up on it first. Bookmarks you made on your computer are here once you are signed in with the same account.
- Bookmark a page (Android): tap More to the right of the address bar, then Add to bookmarks.
- Find a bookmark (Android): use the “Search your bookmarks” bar at the top of the Bookmarks screen.
- Edit, move or delete (Android): tap More next to a bookmark and choose Edit, Move to… or Delete. Google warns that a deleted bookmark cannot be brought back.
- Sort (Android): tap Sort and view options at the top right to sort by manual order, newest, oldest, last opened, A to Z or Z to A, or to switch between visual and compact views.
Google’s help says you can keep up to 100,000 bookmarks in your Google Account. To organize bookmarks on a computer, see our bookmark organizing guide.
Saving mobile data
Chrome’s old Lite mode for Android was turned off in 2022 and has not come back. What you can still do is covered in our guide to saving data in Chrome now that Lite mode is gone.
If your bookmarks or tabs do not show up
- Check that the phone and the computer are signed in to Chrome with the same Google Account: tap More > Settings and look at the name at the top.
- For tabs, check that History and tabs is turned on.
- If Chrome says sync is paused or an error appears, see our guide to fixing Chrome sync problems.
Sign out or remove your data
To sign out, tap More > Settings, tap your account name at the top, then Sign out. To delete the Chrome info saved in your Google Account, go to chrome.google.com/sync in Chrome and tap Delete data.