The issue of “Allow Chrome Sign-in” option grayed out will occur if the user is already signed into local user account of Chrome and the Sync option is enabled. Google Chrome Automatically Signs into Browser When You Log into Gmail or Other Google Services PROBLEM REASON:Īfter doing some research and trying out the things myself, I was able to find out the culprit behind the problem. Stop Google Chrome from Using Your Google Account to Automatic Sign into Browser
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You can check out following tutorials to learn full details of this feature and story: Google Chrome didn’t provide any direct option in Settings to turn off this feature.Īfter getting users feedback, Google added a new option “Allow Chrome Sign-in” in Chrome Settings page which can be set to ON or OFF to enable/disable this new identity consistency feature. So the user’s online Google Account and Chrome’s built-in local user account were linked together. In previous Google Chrome versions, whenever a user signed into Google websites and services such as Gmail, YouTube, etc using Google Account, Google Chrome automatically signed into browser’s local user account using user’s Google Account information. Short story behind this new option introduction: The option is set to ON by default and can’t be customized.įollowing screenshot shows that the new option is grayed out in Google Chrome settings page: In other words, the “Allow Chrome Sign-in” option is locked (like someone disabled the option) and can’t be changed. But many Chrome users have reported us that the new option “Allow Chrome Sign-in” is grayed out (or greyed out as some people prefer) in Chrome Settings.
Google developer team recently added a new option to Google Chrome 70 and later versions which allows users to disable the automatic sign-in feature of the web browser known as “ Identity Consistency” or “ Account Consistency“.
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