If you want to prevent the use of Incognito Mode in the Google Chrome web browser, you can disable the feature using these steps.
Windows
- Hold down the Windows Key and press “R” to bring up the Run box.
- Type “regedit“, then press “Enter“.
- Navigate to “HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE” > “SOFTWARE” > “Policies” > “Google” > “Chrome“.
Note: You may have to create the “Google” and “Chrome” folders. - Right-click “Chrome” and select “New” > “DWORD 32-bit value“
- Give the value a name of “
IncognitoModeAvailability“. - Double-click on “
IncognitoModeAvailability“. A box will appear where you can set the value data to “1“. - Restart the computer, and the option to select “Incognito Mode” in Google Chrome will be gone.
Alternatively, you can download this registry import file and run it to set the changes for you.
MacOS
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- From the Finder, select “Go” > “Utilities“.
- Open the “Terminal” application.
- Type the following, then press “Enter“:
defaults write com.google.chrome IncognitoModeAvailability -integer 1 - Restart your Mac. The Incognito Mode option will no longer be available
If you want to revert this setting and allow Incognito Mode again, perform the same steps, only change the “1” to a “0”
Luanne Friesen says
This is far too complicated for me. Too many steps to follow! Why so difficult. I am a non technical senior.
Alexis says
I got this to work but still need to remove it from my Microsoft Edge
Garth says
Follow the first comment notes, this does work.
Anyone know a good similar way to stop this in Firefox?
Cristian says
Ops! It works now. Thank you.
You need to create the Google and Chrome inside of the Policies folder. Right click > new > Key
Brendan M. says
It worked, Thank You!
Thomas Wessel says
Thanks so much for the valuable information! Is there a way to do this on my kid’s Android phone?
Luma Bonfante says
This worked out perfectly. Do you know how to that on Safari on an iPhone?
jacob says
i did this but i am still able to open up the incognito tab…any ideas as to why?
Allyson says
How do I create the Google and Chrome folders? Thanks.
Sue says
It works, thanks a lot.
Andrew says
I’d like to disable this mode on an android mobile phone. How do I go about doing that?
Ishan Bhasin says
Thank you kind sir. Thank you
Martin says
Thanks! I was looking for this for a while, but this is the first solution that worked for me! Really thankful :)
Lee says
Thank you so much! This worked very well.
Venkat says
Thanks man! This tip really helped me disable Incognito mode from the Chrome browser on my Macbook. Please do suggest if there’s such a thing for other browsers too i.e Private mode in Safari & Firefox.
--- says
When I navigate to Google, then Chrome, then new, then DWORD 32-bit value, I just get a pop-up that says “Cannot create value: Error writing to the registry.” How do I fix this? Thanks!
Joe says
How do I disable incognito on a chromebook?