Chrome’s New AI-Powered Feature Reads Your Gmail Emails to Make Filling Out Web Forms Easier.
Google Chrome is making it easier to autofill online forms by providing more than just contact information and credit card numbers. For users with Personal Intelligence enabled, Gemini will now offer data such as order numbers, tracking information, attendee IDs, and booking confirmations from Gmail messages when filling out forms in Chrome.
Chrome expands autofill capabilities using information from Gmail.
Chrome’s enhanced autofill capabilities use Gemini to read your emails and display suggestions, eliminating the need to switch tabs or manually search for codes or confirmations in your inbox. When you click on a form field containing relevant data, a pop-up menu appears indicating the item is “Suggested by Gemini.” You can click it to autofill the suggestion, or you can open an additional menu to view the specific source (the original email) or delete the suggestion. The latter doesn’t delete anything from Gmail; the suggestion is simply dismissed in Chrome.
As Android Police reports , this summer Google began testing an improved autofill feature in Chrome, using data from other connected apps, such as Google Photos. This feature is currently being rolled out specifically to Gmail and will initially be available to US users with Personal Intelligence enabled on their desktops, as well as in the Android and iOS apps when using Gemini in Chrome.
Personal Intelligence may share your Gmail data to deliver targeted advertising.
When using advanced autofill, keep in mind that, thanks to a recent privacy policy update , connecting Gmail and other Google apps to Personal Intelligence may expose your data to ad personalization. Personal Intelligence likely hasn’t significantly changed Google’s access to your data, but Google may now use data from Gmail, Photos, and Drive to deliver targeted ads. This includes data you don’t explicitly share in search or with Google’s artificial intelligence. Google states that it doesn’t send personal data to advertisers or scan Gmail for it—however, connecting Personal Intelligence to Google apps potentially makes your data more vulnerable.
In a blog post announcing the improved autofill feature , Google states that “sensitive data is encrypted” and that users can manage autofill, including enabling or disabling rich suggestions, through Chrome settings.