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How to Stop Chrome Sync and Delete Your Synced Data

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Chrome Sync saves your bookmarks, passwords, history, and settings to your Google Account so they follow you between devices. If you want to stop that or clear out everything that’s been saved, here’s how.

Before you start: Removing synced data deletes it from your Google Account permanently. Make sure you don’t need it on another device first.

How to Turn Off Sync

  1. Click the three dots in the top right corner and select Settings.
  2. Click You and Google, then Sync and Google services.
  3. Click Turn off next to your account.

How to Delete Your Synced Data

  1. Go to myaccount.google.com/data-and-privacy.
  2. Scroll to Your Google Account data and find Chrome sync.
  3. Choose the option to delete your Chrome data, then confirm.

Quick Tips

  • Turning off sync on one device does not delete data already saved from your other devices.
  • Passwords stay encrypted while synced, but deleting your synced data removes them from your account too.

Now your devices will stop sharing browsing data through your Google Account, and anything already saved there is gone for good.

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Dinsan Francis is the founder of Chrome Story, which he started in 2009 — the same year Google launched Chrome. He has covered the Chrome browser and Chromebook ecosystem for over 15 years and has used Chromebooks as his primary computing device since 2010. He’s always on the bleeding edge, running the Canary build of both Chrome and ChromeOS as daily drivers.

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9 responses to “How to Stop Chrome Sync and Delete Your Synced Data”

  1. strong_wind Avatar
    strong_wind

    I deleted it cause I was having some problems with the sync, and then I just synced again. It corrected for me and I haven’t lost any data =)

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      2. chrome story Avatar
        chrome story

        hi hi 🙂 ok .. sync will have issues if you are on dev build or if you have passwords selected to sync … ? I was having trouble from the time they started password sync .. stopped and synced again to get it fixed..

      3. apruler2012 Avatar
        apruler2012

        haha, no problem 😉 glad to help =D

        wow, wow where is my credit in this. haha jk 😉

  2. Joe Avatar
    Joe

    I’ve been using Chrome since it came out, and have been syncing since it was available. I don’t have a ‘Chrome Sync’ section in my Google Dashboard, nor it is listed under the ‘Other Products’. Where do I find it?

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    1. Joe Avatar
      Joe

      Never mind, I found that I have to wait about 10 seconds for it to appear in the list. It isn’t there when I first open the dashboard, but it suddenly appears after waiting. Strange.

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      1. chrome story Avatar
        chrome story

        cool 🙂 I had to use search and find to get Chrome in there 😀

  3. Steve Avatar
    Steve

    Question:
    I synced on my pc and then synced on my mom’s pc. How do I delete all the synced data from my mom’s pc, but still have it on my pc?

    Thanks,
    Steve

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