How to Get Notified When Google Android Prices Drop
Chrome desktop users have long been able to provide the browser with third-party extensions that track prices and help find the best deals, but those add-ons don’t work on Android. Thankfully, Google is rolling out a new feature in Chrome for mobile that will keep a close eye on the drop in prices on the shopping tabs you open in the background.
The new Android price tracking feature is part of the Chrome 90 update now available on the Google Play store . After updating Chrome, you can enable price tracking by following these steps:
- Open the page for the item you want to track in the Chrome app.
- Tap the open tabs icon to the right of the URL bar to open a grid of tabs.
- Click the three-dot menu button in the upper right corner of the screen.
- Select Track Prices, then enable the option in the next menu. You can also click “Get notified” if you see an option at the bottom of the screen.
- With price tracking enabled, Chrome sends push notifications whenever it sees a price change on any of your open tabs. Remember to leave these tabs open in the background for the feature to work.
If you don’t see the Track Pricing option even after updating Chrome, then this feature is not yet available. It should be showing up shortly, but you can try making it show up using Chrome’s experimental flags menu:
- In a new Chrome tab, go to chrome: // flags / # enable-tab-grid-layout.
- From the drop-down menu under Tab Grid Layout , select Included Price Alerts .
- Click Restart to apply the changes and restart your browser.
- After restarting Chrome, follow the steps above to enable price tracking.
These steps may not work for everyone, even if “Price Included Alerts” is available in the tab grid layout flag options; Android Police and 9to5Google report successfully enabling Chrome price tracking this way, but it didn’t work for us or The Verge .
Anyway, give him a chance. And even if that doesn’t work, price tracking should eventually hit all Chrome Android users.