You Should Move Chrome’s Address Bar to the Bottom of Your IPhone

Google Chrome on iOS finally adds one of Safari’s best features – the ability to move the address bar to the bottom of the screen. When you’re using a phone with a huge display, it’s difficult to reach the top of the screen to type in a website name. If the tab bar is at the bottom, it’s much easier to reach.

Safari added this feature two years ago with the release of iOS 15, and now Chrome has finally joined the club. However, this feature is not enabled by default, so you may not be aware of its existence. But once you get used to it, it becomes much better to keep the URL at the bottom.

How to Move Chrome’s Address Bar Down on Your iPhone

First, update Google Chrome to the latest version. At the time of writing this is version 119.0.6045.109. You can go to the App Store and search for Google Chrome to see if it needs an update.

After installing the update, open Google Chrome and tap and hold the address bar at the top. Then select Move Address Bar Down . This will switch you to the improved address bar layout. This layout also makes Chrome’s share icon, which is located to the right of the address bar, handy.

Alternatively, you can enable this feature by tapping the three dots icon in the bottom right corner of the screen and selecting Settings > Address Bar . You can click on the Bottom option on this page and you are done.

The Android version of Chrome doesn’t seem to have this option yet. Google briefly added this feature through experimental Chrome flags, but the option has since been removed. This is surprising since Google owns Chrome and Android, but that platform lacks one of the browser’s best new features altogether. Of course, only Safari has a footer URL by default, but you’d think Google would at least offer this option for Android users as well.