The Address Prediction Tool
Google Chrome features a robust autofill engine designed to speed up your online shopping and form-filling experiences. One of its primary functions is saving physical addresses. When you type your name, street, city, and zip code into a checkout page, Chrome often prompts you to save it. The next time you encounter a similar form, Chrome will display a dropdown menu offering to automatically inject that saved address into the fields. The underlying framework for this is sometimes managed by specific experimental flags, notably the “Enable autofill for addresses” flag in certain builds.
While highly convenient, this feature can be a security and privacy risk on shared or public computers. If you use a family PC, you likely don’t want Chrome automatically offering your personal billing address, phone number, and full name every time someone else uses the browser to buy something online. Furthermore, aggressive autofill can sometimes incorrectly overwrite fields you intentionally left blank. If you prefer to type your shipping details manually to ensure accuracy and privacy, you should disable this autofill behavior.
How to Turn Off Address Autofill
You can disable the automatic address suggestion engine via the Chrome experimental flags menu (or the main settings UI).
- Open Google Chrome.
- Click inside the main address bar at the top of the browser.
- Type
chrome://flagsand press Enter. - On the “Experiments” page, use the search bar to look for Enable autofill for addresses.
- If the specific flag is present in your version, click the dropdown menu next to it and select Disabled.
- Click the blue Relaunch button.
Note: Since Chrome frequently moves Autofill features out of the flags menu into the stable UI, you should also check standard settings: Click the three-dot menu > Settings > Autofill and passwords > Addresses and more, and turn off the “Save and fill addresses” toggle.