Chrome enhanced autofill and Gmail: turn it off

What Chrome autofill now pulls from Gmail

Classic autofill vs. Gmail-powered enhanced autofill

	Classic autofill	Enhanced autofill with Gmail
What it fills	Name, address, card number	Order numbers, tracking info, flight bookings
Where the data lives	Saved in Chrome	Emails in your Gmail inbox
What powers it	Chrome autofill	Gemini with Personal Intelligence
How it looks	Dropdown under the field	Same dropdown, marked with the Gemini spark icon

On October 28, 2026, Google announced that Chrome's enhanced autofill can suggest details it finds in your Gmail while you fill out a web form. Until now, autofill stuck to the basics you saved yourself, like your name, address, and card number.

The new suggestions come from Gemini with Personal Intelligence, which reads your inbox for the detail the form is asking for. Google pitches it as a way to skip the tab-switching and inbox searches that usually come before typing an order number into a return form.

Order numbers, tracking info, and flight bookings

Google's announcement names three kinds of data: order numbers, package tracking details, and flight bookings. Chrome Help describes the same feature as using Gmail data such as flights, vehicles, and orders, so vehicle details are in scope too.

Think of a return form that wants the order number from last week's confirmation email. With enhanced autofill on, that number can appear in the dropdown without opening Gmail. TechCrunch's report listed a wider set of examples, including membership IDs and phone numbers.

How to spot a Gemini suggestion

Gmail-based suggestions carry the Gemini spark icon. They sit in the regular autofill dropdown, so the icon is the quickest way to tell them apart from the addresses and cards you saved in Chrome yourself.

Who gets Gmail suggestions in Chrome autofill

Requirements for Gmail-powered enhanced autofill

Location

United States

Age

18 or older

Feature

Gemini in Chrome

Setting

Gemini Personal Intelligence turned on

Platforms

Chrome on desktop, Android, and iOS

You get Gmail suggestions only if you're in the US, are 18 or older, use Gemini in Chrome, and have opted into Gemini Personal Intelligence. Gemini in Chrome is the Gemini assistant built into the browser. Google started the gradual rollout on October 28, 2026, across desktop, Android, and iOS.

Miss any one of those conditions and nothing changes. Autofill keeps offering the name, address, and card details you saved in Chrome, with no Gemini entries in the dropdown.

Personal Intelligence has to be on

Personal Intelligence is the Gemini setting that lets it use data from your connected Google apps. In Gemini in Chrome, the apps you can connect include Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Docs, Google Drive, Google Keep, Google Tasks, Google Photos, and YouTube.

Enhanced autofill reads Gmail only through that connection. If you never opted in, a Chrome update alone won't start pulling details from your inbox.

Availability outside the US

Google hasn't said when Gmail-powered autofill will reach other countries. The announcement covers the US only.

Personalization in Gemini in Chrome is itself limited to four countries: Canada, India, New Zealand, and the US. Readers in the UK, the EU, Japan, and elsewhere can't use this feature yet.

How to turn off enhanced autofill in Chrome settings

Which switch to use

What you want to stop	Where	Switch
Gmail details in autofill only	Chrome settings	Enhanced autofill → "Find and fill with Gemini"
Gemini using Gmail anywhere	Gemini in Chrome settings	Personal Intelligence → Connected Apps → Gmail

Turn off "Find and fill with Gemini" under Enhanced autofill in your Chrome autofill settings, and Gmail details stop showing up in form suggestions. Google's announcement says the same thing in broader terms: whether enhanced autofill is on, and what it can reach, is controlled from Chrome settings.

There's also a bigger switch. Disconnecting Gmail from Gemini cuts off the source entirely, but it affects more than autofill, so it's worth knowing which one you need before you flip it.

Switch off Find and fill with Gemini

Reaching the toggle in Chrome's autofill settings takes four steps. On a computer:

1. Open Chrome, click More (the three-dot menu) at the top right, and choose Settings
2. Open Autofill and passwords
3. Under Autofill settings, select Enhanced autofill
4. Turn off Find and fill with Gemini

Chrome Help describes this as an on-or-off toggle. Flip the same switch back on whenever you want the suggestions again.

Disconnect Gmail from Gemini entirely

If you'd rather Gemini not touch Gmail at all, remove the connection in Gemini in Chrome. The steps start from the Gemini panel, not from Chrome settings.

1. Click Ask Gemini at the top of the browser to open Gemini in Chrome
2. Click More, then Settings & help, then Personal Intelligence, then Connected Apps
3. Turn off Gmail

This disconnects Gmail from every Gemini app, not just Gemini in Chrome. If you also ask Gemini about your email elsewhere, that stops working too, so use the autofill toggle above if autofill is the only thing bothering you.

How to delete a Gmail autofill suggestion

What the suggestion menu lets you do

See the source

A link opens the original Gmail message in a new tab

Remove

Remove from Chrome drops that suggestion

Edit

Not possible: details pulled from Gmail can't be edited in Chrome

You can delete Gmail-based suggestions one at a time from the menu next to each suggestion, and you can check which email it came from first. That matters when an old order number or a past flight keeps popping up.

Both actions live in the same small menu, which appears when you hover over a Gemini suggestion in the dropdown. You don't need to open Chrome settings for either one.

Open the source email first

Each Gemini suggestion links back to the email it came from. Here's how to open it.

1. Click into the form field and open the suggestion dropdown
2. Hover over the Gemini suggestion to bring up its menu
3. Select the link to the original source

The message opens in Gmail in a new tab. That's the quickest way to confirm the number or date still matches your current booking or order before you decide to remove it.

Removing a suggestion keeps the email

Select Remove from Chrome in the same menu to drop the suggestion; the email itself stays in your inbox. It works the other way too: delete the original email in Gmail and the suggestion goes away.

You can't edit a Gmail-based suggestion inside Chrome. If the detail is wrong, remove it and type the value yourself.

Encryption, re-authentication, and a setting people confuse

Two autofill settings with similar names

	Enhanced autofill	Smarter form understanding
What it does	Suggests details from Gmail through Gemini	Helps Chrome read forms so it fills them faster
Uses Gmail	Yes	No
Who has it	US, 18+, Personal Intelligence on	Anyone signed in to Chrome with a Google Account

Google says sensitive data used by enhanced autofill is encrypted, and you decide in Chrome settings whether the feature runs and what it can reach. Chrome also asks you to verify it's you before filling the most sensitive fields.

The same Autofill settings page holds a second AI-flavored toggle with a similar name. It's easy to switch off the wrong one.

Re-authentication is on by default

Before Chrome fills sensitive personal details, it asks you to unlock with your screen lock, fingerprint, face unlock, or device PIN. This re-authentication setting is on by default, and sensitive personal details are partially hidden.

You can turn re-authentication off in the same settings area. With it off, Chrome fills that information without the extra check.

Smarter form understanding is a separate toggle

Smarter form understanding doesn't read Gmail; it helps Chrome make sense of form fields so autofill works faster. It stays on unless you turn it off, needs you to be signed in to Chrome, and doesn't work on every site.

If your goal is to keep Gmail details out of autofill, leave this one alone and use the Enhanced autofill toggle instead. Chrome Help lists the two as separate toggles under Autofill settings.

Summary: an opt-in you can switch off in one place

A Gmail-based suggestion stays tied to the email it came from. Chrome won't let you edit it, and deleting the email makes it vanish. When a number looks wrong, open the source email and check there.

The two off switches differ in scope. Find and fill with Gemini stops autofill from using Gmail; disconnecting Gmail in Connected Apps stops every Gemini app from using it. If the Gemini entries in the dropdown are all you want gone, the first switch is enough.