Screen sharing on Chrome for Android just got a huge privacy upgrade

When you screen share something on your phone, basically whatever you see, the other party sees it as well. This can range from being borderline embarrassing to potentially dangerous. This is because sometimes you could share sensitive information. Luckily for you, Chrome on Android is about to get a privacy upgrade.

According to Leopeva64 on X, they discovered a new experimental privacy feature on Chrome for Android. This feature, when enabled, will basically redact sensitive information while you’re screen sharing or screen recording. For example, if you’re trying to show someone how to log into a page, the feature will redact the username and password section of the page so that the other party doesn’t see your login information. It will also work on text fields such as credit cards.

If you’re screen sharing or screen recording information that you can edit later, we suppose this is less of an issue. However, if you’re showing something live, perhaps during a presentation or conference, then this could come in handy.

Obviously the best practice would be to either use a clean phone when doing these kinds of things, or maybe even using a throwaway account just in case. But if you’d rather not go through the hassle or if in a pinch, this feature could help. Right now it is experimental so it isn’t available to all Android users yet, so we’ll have to wait for Google to roll it out.