For administrators managing policies for Chrome using the Google Admin Console.
As a G Suite administrator, you can allow or prevent users from saving and syncing Chrome browser settings and data in managed Google Accounts. This feature can be enabled or disabled in the admin console. Users who have it enabled can sync bookmarks, history, browser theme, and other settings with their managed Google account so they're available across devices. If this feature is disabled, only locally stored information is available to users.
Synchronization is a rather useful feature that every smartphone based on the Android OS is endowed with. First of all, data exchange works in Google services - applications that are directly connected to the user's account in the system. These include email messages, address book content, notes, calendar entries, games, and more. The active synchronization function allows you to have access to the same information simultaneously from different devices, whether it be a smartphone, tablet, computer or laptop. True, this consumes traffic and battery power, which does not suit everyone.
Despite the many advantages and obvious benefits of data synchronization, sometimes users may need to disable it. For example, when there is a need to save battery power, because this function is very voracious. Disabling data sharing can apply to both a Google account and accounts in any other applications that support authorization. In all services and applications, this feature works almost identically, and it can be turned on and off in the settings section.
Below we will look at how to disable the synchronization function using the example of a Google account. This instruction will also apply to any other account used on the smartphone.
It may be called "Accounts", "Other Accounts", "Users and Accounts". Open it.
Note: On older versions of Android, there is a general section directly in the settings "Accounts", which lists connected accounts. In this case, you don't need to go anywhere.
As mentioned above, on older versions of Android, it is present directly in the general list of settings.
Note: On some versions of Android, you can disable synchronization for all items at once. To do this, tap on the icon in the form of two circular arrows. Other possible options are a toggle switch in the upper right corner, ellipsis in the same place, tearing off the menu with the item "Synchronize", or the button below "More", pressing which opens a similar section of the menu. All of these switches can also be set to the inactive position.
You can do the same with the account of any other application used on your mobile device. Just look for its name in the section "Accounts", open and deactivate all or some items.
Note: On some smartphones, you can turn off data synchronization (only completely) from the curtain. To do this, you just need to lower it and tap on the button "Synchronization", making it inactive.
Sometimes users, in addition to the synchronization function, also need to disable data backup (backup). When activated, this feature allows you to store the following information in the cloud storage ():
This data saving is necessary so that after a factory reset or when buying a new mobile device, you can restore basic information and digital content sufficient for comfortable use of the Android OS. If you do not need to create such a useful backup, do the following:
Many owners of Android devices can use them, but do not know the data from the Google account, neither email nor password. This is most typical for representatives of the older generation and inexperienced users who ordered the service and the first setup in the store where the device was purchased. The obvious disadvantage of this situation is the impossibility of using the same Google account on any other device. True, users who want to disable data synchronization are unlikely to be against it.
Due to the instability of the Android operating system, especially on smartphones in the budget and mid-budget segments, failures in its operation are sometimes fraught with a complete shutdown, or even reset to factory settings. Sometimes, after turning on, such devices require you to enter the credentials of a synchronized Google account, but for one of the reasons described above, neither the username nor the password is known to the user. In this case, you also need to disable synchronization, however, at a deeper level. Let's briefly consider possible solutions to this problem:
After a new account is created, the data from it (email and password) will need to be entered during the first system setup. The old (synchronized) account can and should be deleted in the account settings.
Note: Some manufacturers (eg Sony, Lenovo) recommend waiting 72 hours before linking a new account to your smartphone. According to them, this is necessary in order for the Google servers to perform a complete reset and delete information about the old account. The explanation is dubious, but waiting itself sometimes really helps.
As you can understand from this article, there is nothing difficult to disable synchronization on an Android smartphone. This can be done both for one and for several accounts at once, in addition, there is the possibility of selective configuration of parameters. In other cases, when the inability to disable synchronization appeared after a smartphone crash or reset, and the data from the Google account is unknown, the problem, although it is much more complicated, can still be fixed independently or with the help of specialists.
If you do not turn on Google account synchronization on Android, then you can forget about such a convenient feature as accessing contacts from any device with Internet access, or creating a data backup.
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To understand the synchronization options, you first need to know where to enable this feature.
Increase By default, app data, calendar, and contacts are synced. If you want to automatically sync photos with the Google server, you will need to install the Google Photos app. In its settings there is an item "Startupload and synchronization" after activation of which photos will be sent to the cloud storage.
Automatic photo sync will continue to work even after deleting Google Photos. To disable it, you need to go to the application settings and move the "Startup and sync" switch to the inactive position.
Increase Additional manipulations will be needed to synchronize mail from the Gmail application. In order for the data to be sent to the server, you need to check the "Gmail Sync" checkbox in the client settings. If your mail sync isn't working, clearing your phone's internal storage of junk files (if your storage is full) or deleting your Gmail data can help.
At the last official presentation, we told you how to properly disable synchronization in Google Chrome (2 ways) and how to delete your profile data (1 way). Today we will retell all this in the form of an article for those who have not seen or do not know.
A few words about why this is necessary and where it can come in handy. As a rule, users ask this question when they forget to turn off synchronization at work, with friends, on a public computer, and remember this only at home. Unfortunately, some users are really so fearless that they turn on synchronization anywhere and do not think about the consequences. And when their evil colleagues or "friends" start deleting their bookmarks, that's when the panic begins.
But we will not panic. There are two ways to disable synchronization on a remote computer: with and without deleting data on the Google server.
The method is regular, specially created for this, but few people know about it. Partly because it is hidden in the depths of your Google account, and not everyone without a guide will be able to find it. Today CHROME.RF will be your guide. Go...
1. First of all, we need to get into your Google account. To do this, on any service of this corporation, we look for our avatar in the upper right corner, click on it and click on "Account".
2. Now we need to find the "Security" section in the left menu. Let's go there.
3. This section has a long page, but we need to find the subsection "Related sites and applications" at the very bottom of it. And go there through the "Access Control" button.
4. What is this subsection? This displays a list of all sites, services or applications that you have given access to your Google account. Your authorizations through Google, enabled Android sync, connected to the Google APIs of the application - everything is here. And here you can revoke this access by clicking on the "Disable access" button.
We are looking for a line called "Google Chrome". More precisely, we are looking for all lines with the same name, because there may be several. It is currently impossible to unambiguously determine which of them we need, so we turn them all off.
5. Done! Almost immediately after that, all copies of the Google Chrome browser on all devices will lose connection with your account. After some time, an error will be displayed, which indicates a disconnection with the server.
Now no local changes (deleting a bookmark, for example) will be taken into account on the server, and therefore will not get to all other devices. The data on the server is not deleted. And connecting the synchronization back is quite simple: we enter the password on each copy of the browser that you want to reconnect.
Important: local data on each device will not disappear. Bookmarks and passwords will still remain at work, with friends, etc. You just cut off the connection between the devices.
But about this method, as a rule, everyone already knows. Fortunately, finding the treasured button here is quite simple through the Google Chrome settings.
1. Go to the browser settings in the "Login" section. And follow the link to your personal account in your account.
2. And here we already find a magic button with a very logical name "Stop and delete".
What will be the effect of this? First, synchronization will be disabled on all devices (as in the first method, but without an error message). Secondly, your profile data on the server will be completely deleted.
Still important: and in this case, local data will not go anywhere. Those. bookmarks, etc. will not be removed from browsers.
As we all remember from all of the above, disabling synchronization in any way does nothing with your data on a "foreign" computer. But what to do then? Should have thought earlier. In this case, there are two ways: bad and good.
bad way
Do not touch or disable synchronization. We manually delete on your home computer the data that you want to hide / delete from someone else's computer. And we pray that the synchronization will work and delete this data first from the server, and then from the remote browser. But this method is extremely unreliable. An "evil" colleague could turn off synchronization, could turn off the Internet - in this case, nothing will work. By the way, you can’t even check in any way whether the method worked or not.
Good way
And this is the only guaranteed way to remove your data from the browser. We recommend using only them.
1. Go to work/friends to delete your profile manually. If you can't get there, ask a "good" colleague.
2. In the browser settings in the "Users" section, click the "Delete user" button.
If there are several users, then first select your own, and then click "Delete ...". You can even delete the profile of an "evil" colleague. To be kinder.
3. Restart the browser. For what? Because according to my observations, the folder is physically deleted from the hard drive when the browser is closed, and not by clicking on the button.
Those who read carefully will draw a very useful conclusion for themselves: no need to enable synchronization anywhere. You can easily disable it from anywhere, but you may not be able to delete local data after disabling synchronization.
From the article “What is an account”, we know that an account is a place on the Internet and you can store your data there. You can imagine an account as a virtual box in which they put different information. In our example, we will consider the Google account as the most common one.
One of the features of a Google account is to store contacts from the phone book of a smartphone. He does this with the help of synchronization: add a new contact to the phone book - the smartphone copies it to the account, change the existing contact in the smartphone - the changes appear in the account.
Synchronization in our example is convenient because:
Each account can only synchronize certain information. Some sync browser bookmarks and contacts, some also sync calendar entries, and some don't sync anything at all.
