Google adds optional Gmail-powered suggestions to Chrome’s form filling

Google is giving Chrome a new source for filling out online forms: users’ Gmail. Announced October 28, the AI-enhanced Autofill feature can suggest information found in email. It moves personal details from the inbox into browser suggestions, while leaving users the choice of whether to enable that connection.

From an inbox answer to a form suggestion

The update builds on Google’s Personal Intelligence, which already lets people connect Google apps to Gemini. Those connections allow the assistant to retrieve personal details and use them when answering complex questions. Enhanced Autofill brings that information-retrieval approach into Chrome’s form-filling feature, with Gmail supplying details rather than serving only as context for an assistant’s answer.

Google’s examples extend beyond contact and payment information to references associated with travel, purchases and memberships. The suggested details can fall into three groups:

• Travel and membership details: flight confirmation numbers and membership IDs.
• Purchase details: tracking information and order numbers.
• Contact and payment details: addresses, phone numbers and credit card numbers.

TechCrunch’s Sarah Perez compared the convenience to Apple’s ability to detect verification codes in text messages and display them above the keyboard for single-tap entry. Chrome’s announced feature draws from email instead, and its examples cover a broader set of form details.

Where the rollout is starting

The feature is rolling out to U.S. users on desktop and in Gemini in Chrome on iOS and Android. That is an ongoing rollout, rather than a promise that every eligible user already has access.

Google says sensitive data is encrypted. That is the company’s stated protection for a feature whose suggestions can include financial information as well as routine booking and shipping references.