With iOS 14, Apple finally opened up its walled garden a bit to allow users to choose their own default web browser and email client. Well, after months in the beta version of iOS 14, Google has finally released an update to Chrome that lets you set it as a default browser on your iPhone. Here’s how to set Google Chrome as your iPhone’s default web browser.
Note: Make sure you update Chrome to version 85.0.4183.109 from the App Store.
- Launch the Settings app on your iPhone. Scroll down and Tap on ‘Chrome’ From the list of apps that appear at the bottom of Settings.
- a new ‘you will see’Default Browser App‘ choice. This will probably read ‘Safari’ right now. Just tap on it. Here, Choose ‘Chrome’.
That is all. Google Chrome is now the default browser on your iPhone. From now on, every time you tap a link to open it in a browser, your iPhone will launch Chrome instead of Safari. Obviously, if you don’t like using Chrome on your smartphone, you can switch back to Safari by following the steps above and selecting ‘Safari’ from the list.
I’m still waiting for Gmail to get the option to set it as the default email client. As of this writing, the latest version of the Gmail iOS app does not have this feature. However, now that it’s made its way to Chrome, we hope that Google will soon roll this feature into Gmail as well.
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