Chrome is expanding what its enhanced autofill can do: it can now look through Gmail for details that may be useful when you fill out a form. With Gemini and Personal Intelligence, the browser can suggest information such as a shipment tracking number, a travel booking reference, or a recent purchase’s order number.
From saved account details to Gmail
Chrome’s enhanced autofill already offered information such as a person’s name, passport number, email address, and physical addresses. Those details could come from a Google Account and services such as Google Wallet. The new expansion adds information found in Gmail to the kinds of details the browser may suggest.
That changes the feature’s role from filling in familiar identity and address fields to helping with forms that ask for details tied to a particular transaction or trip. Rather than searching through confirmation emails, receipts, or shipping updates, a user may see a relevant value suggested while completing the form.
What it can suggest
The Gmail-sourced suggestions are practical reference details that people might otherwise have to retrieve from their messages. The article identifies shipment tracking numbers, flight booking numbers, hotel reservations, and order numbers for recent purchases as examples.
These are suggestions for form completion. The feature is meant to reduce the manual step of finding a message and copying the relevant detail, especially when a form asks for information connected to an order or travel booking.
Privacy and user controls
Google says sensitive data shown as an autofill suggestion remains encrypted. Users can manage what enhanced autofill is allowed to access through Chrome’s settings, and they can turn the feature off completely.
Those controls matter because the expansion draws on personal email content, where receipts and booking confirmations can contain information specific to a person’s plans and purchases. The settings give users a way to decide whether enhanced autofill should have access, rather than requiring them to use the expanded capability.
Where the rollout is available
Google is beginning the rollout in the US. The updated autofill capability is available through Gemini in Chrome for users who have Personal Intelligence turned on.
The supported browser versions include desktop, Android, and iOS. Availability therefore depends both on the rollout and on having Personal Intelligence enabled; users who do not turn it on will not have the expanded Gmail-based suggestions described here.