Top 9 Things to Know About Google Chrome Profiles

You should know that you can add multiple Google accounts in the same Chrome profile. Switching between them is as simple as clicking a single button. All of your personal information, such as bookmarks, history, and passwords, is saved to the Google Account by default. What if you want to keep your personal and professional activities in separate accounts? To do this, you can configure multiple profiles in Chrome, especially if you share the computer or Chrome with others.

Chrome profiles come in handy if you share your computer with multiple people. Or, when someone wants to use Chrome for a short time, you can create a different profile or use the guest profile.

Let’s dive deeper into the world of Chrome’s multiple accounts functionality. Here you will learn how to manage and configure Google Chrome profiles.

1. What are Chrome profiles

Chrome profiles keep your Chrome data, such as bookmarks, history, passwords, and other settings, separate for each user. Say you are sharing your Chrome with your brother. Instead of creating a new user profile for your entire computer, you can create two Chrome profiles to separate personal information. Each profile will behave as an independent entity and synchronize data limited to its user only.

It is important to keep in mind that any user can switch to other Chrome profiles and view personal data. Profiles are not password protected. So create a Chrome profile only for trusted contacts.

2. Where can you use Chrome profiles

Chrome profiles are available on PC only. You can’t use them on Chrome mobile apps (Android or iOS). However, if you want to separate your information in Android, you can try the multi-user functionality of Android.

3. How to create a Chrome profile

Creating a Chrome profile is an easy task. Here are the steps to create a new profile.

Step 1: Launch Chrome on your PC.

2nd step: Click on the Profile icon at the top. From the menu, select Add.

Step 3: A new pop-up window will open. Type a name for your profile and select a profile picture from the given list. You can change them both later. Click Add at the bottom.

Point: To add a shortcut for the new Chrome profile to your desktop, check the box next to “Create a desktop shortcut for this user”.

You will be redirected to the newly created Chrome profile. Sign in with another Google Account to synchronize data such as bookmarks, passwords, etc. from this account.

4. How to change Chrome profile

You can either launch a Chrome profile using its shortcut on the desktop, or switch from the current profile. In the latter case, click the Profile icon in Chrome. Then click on the profile you want to open.

5. Rename and edit the Chrome profile photo

To do this, open the Chrome profile you want to rename. Click the three-dot icon at the top and select Settings.

Click on “Chrome Name and Image”.

Then type a new name and select a different image.

6. Create a desktop shortcut for the Chrome profile

There are two ways to do this. First, when you create a profile, you can activate the toggle next to Create a desktop shortcut. Second, you can do this from the “Chrome Name and Image” setting. To do this, go to Chrome Settings> Chrome Name and Image.

Activate the toggle for Show desktop shortcut.

A shortcut icon will be added to your desktop. Each profile has a designated photo and name.

Move the profile to a new computer

If you share Chrome or the computer with others, you may want to keep your data separate. And when you want to move this data to a different, new computer, you need to sign in to your Google Account in Chrome settings (if you haven’t already). Then log in with the same account on your new computer. Here is! All of your web history, bookmarks and passwords will be automatically available on the new device.