Looking for a way to Disable Incognito Mode in Chrome, follow the steps below to easily get it done. Chrome Incognito Mode is a luxury, a private browser for you. But not everyone sees that way. I mean like there will no evidence of what you have browse through Incognito Mode. Well, what the hell, let’s start the method to disable incognito mode chrome windows 10.
How to Disable Incognito Mode of Chrome in Windows 10 – 2018. To open Incognito mode in Chrome: 1. Click on three-dot menu icon available at the top right side of the screen. From the menu click on New Incognito Windows. Alternatively, you can press CTRL + SHIFT + N keyboard combination to open it quickly. You might also want to learn about How to Start Google Chrome in Safe Mode. Nov 11, 2018 I get it, you want to disable incognito mode on your browser because you want your history and your data to remembered. If you have kids and you don’t want them to try and hide their history or you want to track what they’re doing on the internet, disabling Incognito mode.
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Disable Incognito Mode Chrome Windows 10:
This trick is very simple and easy, all you have to do is change some contexts. But both Mac and Windows have different arrangements. Let’s start with Windows first.
Disable incognito mode chrome Windows:
- Hold Windows Key + R button together, It will open up Run Box.
- Type in “regedit“, then press “Enter“.
- Click on “HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE” > “SOFTWARE” > “Policies” > “Google” > “Chrome“.
If you don’t see ” Google and Chrome ” folders, then you have to create them.
- Right click on Chrome folder, Select “New” > “DWORD 32-bit value“.
- Set a name for the Value, “IncognitoModeAvailability“.
- Once you have added a name to Value, double-click on IncognitoModeAvailability and set the value to 1.
Restart your computer and you have successfully DisabledIncognito Mode Chrome Windows 10.
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Disable incognito mode chrome Mac OS:
I think Mac users have an edge cause they don’t have to navigate through folder and files. All they need to do is run a command in terminal. Let’s start it.
- Select Go -> Utilities.
- Open Terminal from here.
- Type the following command and press enter.
defaults write com.google.chrome IncognitoModeAvailability -integer 1
- Restart your Mac and you won’t be seeing Incognito Mode in Chrome.
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For Mac OS X, how do you disable Incognito mode in Chrome? The desired result simply being that the user cannot browse in Incognito mode, even if they know the keyboard shortcut or something similar.
Joseph Hansen
Joseph HansenJoseph Hansen
3 Answers
The short answer: you must edit the preferences file so that the key
IncognitoModeAvailability
has a value of 1
.In
/Library/Preferences/
add a plist entry to the file com.google.Chrome.plist
such that the key is IncognitoModeAvailability
and the value is 1
.Here is an example: assuming the file
com.google.Chrome.plist
doesn't exist, use a text editor to save the following code:The full file name and path of the above should be
/Library/Preferences/com.google.Chrome.plist
.Since macOS Sierra, proper plist files seem to be in some binary format by default—a format that you can't edit with a normal text editor. I found that I can open them in Apple's Xcode and it has a nice GUI—very easy to edit. If you don't have access to Xcode, I think you can use the plutil terminal command like this:
In xml format, you should be able to edit it in a text editor, and a web site I read says that the xml format should work fine.
Regardless, I recently was able to disable Incognito mode using Xcode on the
~/Library/Preferences/com.google.Chrome.plist
file. (Furthermore, I had to delete /Library/Preferences/com.google.Chrome.plist
because my old version was deemed 'corrupted' because it wasn't in a proper file format.)Joseph HansenJoseph Hansen
Here's an updated way for macOS Sierra.
- Install a plist editing program like PrefSetter.
- Using Finder, go to the ~/Library/Preferences/ folder.
- Copy and paste an existing plist file, (I used com.google.Keystone.agent.plist).
- Now open that copied file using PrefSetter, and rename it com.google.Chrome.
- Delete all existing keys, and create a new key, giving it the name: IncognitoModeAvailability.
- Under class, choose Integer, and under value, enter 1.
- Now save this file, and copy and paste it into the /Library/Preferences folder as well. (Remember this isn't the same folder as ~/Library/Preferences folder)
- Restart your computer, and viola, it should work!
Aasim SoomroAasim Soomro
I've seen a bunch of very complicated directions/suggestions for how to disable Incognito in Google Chrome for Mac OS X, but I've found a much simpler method.
Simply open up Chrome, click on 'Chrome' in the upper-left hand corner; click on 'Preferences'; click on 'Settings'; scroll to the very bottom and click on 'Show Advanced Settings'; scroll to the very bottom and click on 'Reset Settings.' Voila! But, now your settings are at their original settings, so you'll now have to go and reset those settings that you want to change from their original state.
grg♦
BruinBruin