How to turn on ephemeral mode in Chrome Browser?

Problem

You need your employees to work from their personal laptop or a shared device that they trust, while reducing the chances of any browsing information being left behind on their device.

Environment

  • Chrome Browser for Windows, Mac and Linux

Solution

How to turn on ephemeral mode:

  1. From the Admin console, go to Devices > Chrome > Settings > Users and browsers. 
  2. Select the organizational unit to be affected. 
  3. Look for the Force ephemeral mode policy and Set it to Erase all local user data.
  4. Save the changes.

Cause

You need a way to get users data cleared from Chrome browser.