If you notice an unfamiliar activity on your account or think that your password may have been compromised, change your password immediately. Learn how to secure a compromised Google Account.
To change your password from another site, follow the instructions in Chrome. Learn how to manage passwords.
Once on-device encryption is set up, you can use your Google password or the screen lock for compatible phones or tablets to unlock your password. This type of encryption means that only you have the key to unlock your passwords.
Run a Safety Check on an Android device
Chrome runs Safety Check automatically to help you find and fix privacy and security problems.- Compromised, reused, or weak passwords: To ensure your online security, Safety Check can warn you if a username or password stored in the Google Password Manager was involved in a data breach. Learn more about how Chrome protects your passwords.
- Safe Browsing status: To ensure you’re protected against malware, phishing, and other risks, Safety Check can occasionally remind you to review your Safe Browsing settings. Learn more about Safe Browsing protection in Chrome.
- Available Chrome updates: To ensure that you’re protected by the latest security updates, Safety Check can occasionally remind you to update Chrome.
- Potentially unwanted notifications: From time to time, Chrome will remind you to review your notification permission grants.
- Unused site permissions: To protect your data, Chrome removes permissions from sites you haven't used recently.
- Abusive notifications: Notification permissions are removed by Chrome from sites that Google Safe Browsing finds to be deceiving users into granting the permission.
- On your Android device, open Chrome
.
- At the top right, tap More
Settings.
- Tap Safety Check.
- If Chrome finds any issues:
- Tap the item with the issue.
- Follow the on-screen instructions.
Settings.When a website’s URL has HTTPS, it can indicate a secure connection. Connections to sites that use HTTPS are more secure than those that don’t.
When you turn on Always use secure connections, Chrome upgrades URLs to use HTTPS and displays a warning before you visit a site that doesn’t support it.
- On your Android device, open Chrome
- At the top right, tap More
- Under “Security,” turn on Always use secure connections.
Tip: When you’re about to load a site that doesn’t use HTTPS in its URL, you'll find a “Not Secure” warning in the address bar.
When you visit a site, Chrome looks up the site’s host server’s IP address. To protect your privacy and security, if Secure DNS lookup is turned on, Chrome encrypts your information during the lookup process.
By default, Secure DNS in Chrome is turned on in automatic mode. If Chrome has issues looking up a site in this mode, it'll look up the site in the unencrypted mode.
You can select a custom provider. When you select a custom provider, Chrome won't default to unencrypted mode. If you have issues, like error messages, you can check your provider setting or turn Secure DNS off. The error messages may say that the server’s IP address couldn't be found.
Important: If your device is managed or parental controls are turned on, you can’t use Chrome’s secure DNS feature.
- On your Android device, open Chrome
- At the top right, tap More
- Under “Security,” tap Use secure DNS.
- Turn on or off Use secure DNS.
- Select your current or another service provider.