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Chrome: Disable Incognito Mode

Chrome: Disable Incognito Mode

July 20, 2022 by Mitch Bartlett 4 Comments

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

Registry

  1. Hold down the Windows Key and press “R” to bring up the Run box.
  2. Type “regedit“, then press “Enter“.
  3. Navigate to “HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE” > “SOFTWARE” > “Policies” > “Google” > “Chrome“.
    Note: You may have to create the “Google” and “Chrome” folders.
  4. Right-click “Chrome” and select “New” > “DWORD 32-bit value“
  5. Give the value a name of “IncognitoModeAvailability“.
  6. Double-click on “IncognitoModeAvailability“. A box will appear where you can set the value data to “1“.
  7. 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.

PowerShell

Launch Windows Powershell under an administrator account and use the following command:

New-ItemProperty -path “HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Policies\Google\Chrome” -Name “IncognitoModeAvailability” -value 1 -PropertyType Dword -Force | Out-Null


MacOS

    1. From the Finder, select “Go” > “Utilities“.
    2. Open the “Terminal” application.
    3. Type the following, then press “Enter“:
      defaults write com.google.chrome IncognitoModeAvailability -integer 1
    4. 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”

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Comments

  1. Kelvin says

    October 19, 2022 at 7:52 pm

    I did those methods to disable incognito mode in chrome on a mac. It worked, but it showed the “browser is being managed by an organization” message. Is that normal?

  2. Eva says

    October 11, 2022 at 4:21 pm

    How do you turn it back on?

  3. Amy says

    September 11, 2022 at 1:05 am

    I tried this and it returned “unexpected argument integer; leaving defaults unchanged.”

  4. Alice says

    July 21, 2022 at 12:11 am

    Hi
    How to turn incognito mode back on in windows 7.
    Thanks

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