{"id":634,"date":"2020-05-23T12:03:56","date_gmt":"2020-05-23T00:03:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jgi.geek.nz\/?p=634"},"modified":"2020-05-24T12:54:18","modified_gmt":"2020-05-24T00:54:18","slug":"chrome-sync-across-devices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jgi.geek.nz\/?p=634","title":{"rendered":"Chrome: Sync across devices"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>We&#8217;ve all done it, logged out, or closed our browser without bookmarking &#8216;that&#8217; page or can&#8217;t remember which device you saw it on. If you are a Chrome user and Sync is turned on just check your browser history. History from each device is shown separately and can be accessed from any device you are logged in on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Not sure if sync is on?&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignwide is-stacked-on-mobile\" style=\"grid-template-columns:44% auto\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh4.googleusercontent.com\/knDXj1MrNvQeiwpsYG19YYEBiLkpYT-ME1yh8B7VmiQym6ZWHOkZ7_kauNocVvMKJjuYuj9YbUYfaTVTwU_AOaDEjREDFnJnAQ4g1J_DUKWrIJBG-MEAQ61mXKcAs0FN9rJwYQij\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p class=\"has-normal-font-size\">This screenshot shows how the current device history is listed first, then the names of other devices listed (alphabetically) with their specific history. If you don\u2019t see anything similar, chances are Sync is not enabled.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignwide has-media-on-the-right is-stacked-on-mobile\" style=\"grid-template-columns:auto 29%\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/Dz1LCetuVHlg2h0pmSXDWsvlKNXG7ncu2tRAvQwk9-Qx1c6VNj9mvuU1CXpIoqBobtRBVwq2tfDv3E2U4mVPvjraZ1y3nv37qkstGtA-urOXXB_o5QLf-u_qtNYWj4FyqmJe1YJm\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p class=\"has-normal-font-size\">To quickly check select your avatar beside the kebab menu on the Chrome Browser<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>If sync is not on &#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Select the Kebab menu (3 vertical dots or ellipses) on the top right corner of the Chrome browser<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Navigate to Settings &gt; Sync and Google Services &gt; Turn on and following the instructions<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Change sync settings:&nbsp;<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Syncing everything is the default setting. But that might not be appropriate for all of your devices.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Navigate to Settings &gt; Sync and Google Services &gt; Manage Sync &gt; Move the Sync everything slider to off and select the options you don\u2019t want to sync.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>No need to save these settings, Google remembers these choices.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-3 wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"630\" height=\"283\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jgi.geek.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Chrome-Sync-step1-e1590191991875.png\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"637\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/www.jgi.geek.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Chrome-Sync-step1-e1590191991875.png\" data-link=\"https:\/\/www.jgi.geek.nz\/?attachment_id=637\" class=\"wp-image-637\"\/><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"630\" height=\"312\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jgi.geek.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Chrome-Sync_Manage-step2-e1590191968194.png\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"638\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/www.jgi.geek.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Chrome-Sync_Manage-step2-e1590191968194.png\" data-link=\"https:\/\/www.jgi.geek.nz\/?attachment_id=638\" class=\"wp-image-638\"\/><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"630\" height=\"572\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jgi.geek.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Chrome-Sync_Manage-step3-e1590191928986.png\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"639\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/www.jgi.geek.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Chrome-Sync_Manage-step3-e1590191928986.png\" data-link=\"https:\/\/www.jgi.geek.nz\/?attachment_id=639\" class=\"wp-image-639\"\/><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n<pre class=\"wp-block-preformatted\"><\/pre>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is nothing worse than not remembering that cool\/interesting\/informative website you were looking at &#038; forgot to bookmark for future reference. Was it on your phone, laptop or computer? Can\u2019t be bothered tracking it down again because it took you ages to stumble across it in the first place?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":660,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,33],"tags":[17,21],"class_list":["post-634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chrome","category-tips-tricks","tag-hot-tips","tag-working-smarter-not-harder"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jgi.geek.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jgi.geek.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jgi.geek.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jgi.geek.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jgi.geek.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=634"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.jgi.geek.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":714,"href":"https:\/\/www.jgi.geek.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634\/revisions\/714"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jgi.geek.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jgi.geek.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jgi.geek.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jgi.geek.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}