Turn on Chrome browser management (Android and iOS)

For administrators who manage user-level Chrome browser policies from the Google Admin console.

As an admin, you have to turn on Chrome browser management in the Admin console for user-level policies to work on Android and iOS devices.

Before you begin

• Turn on Chrome management for signed-in users in the Admin console. By default, the setting is turned on only for Windows, Mac, and Linux.
• To turn Chrome browser management on or off for select groups of users or Android and iOS devices, put their accounts in an organizational unit.

Turn on Chrome management for signed-in users

1. Sign in to your Google Admin console.

   Sign in using your administrator account (does not end in @gmail.com).

2. In the Admin console, go to Menu  DevicesChromeSettings. The User & browser settings page opens by default.

   If you signed up for Chrome Enterprise Core, go to Menu  Chrome browserSettings.

3. Go to and click Chrome management for signed-in users.
4. Click Edit.
5. Select Apply all user policies when users sign into Chrome, and provide a managed Chrome experience.
6. Click Inherit to revert to the same setting as its parent organizational unit. Or, click Save to keep the new setting, even if the parent setting changes.

Turn on Chrome on Android and iOS

1. Sign in to your Google Admin console.

   Sign in using your administrator account (does not end in @gmail.com).

2. In the Admin console, go to Menu  DevicesChromeSettings. The User & browser settings page opens by default.

   If you signed up for Chrome Enterprise Core, go to Menu  Chrome browserSettings.

3. Go to and click Chrome on Android or Chrome on iOS.
4. Select Apply supported user settings to Chrome on Android or Apply supported user settings to Chrome on iOS.
5. Click Save.

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