Chrome's AI-powered Autofill can now dig through your Gmail to fill out forms

Google said on Wednesday that Chrome is getting an advanced, AI-powered version of Autofill that can pull details out of a user's Gmail inbox to complete online forms, rather than relying only on saved addresses and payment cards.

The suggestions can include a flight confirmation number, a membership ID, tracking information, an order number, an address, a phone number or a credit card number — details users would otherwise have to dig out of their email by hand.

The update extends Google's Personal Intelligence work, which already lets users connect Google apps to the Gemini assistant so it can retrieve details and answer more complex questions. The new step wires that inbox data into one of the browser's most routine actions.

As with other Personal Intelligence features, enhanced Autofill is opt-in: users can turn it on or off from Chrome settings, and Google says sensitive data is encrypted.

On its own the change looks minor, but it is a high-frequency one. It echoes an Apple feature users have long appreciated — detecting verification codes sent by text and offering them above the keyboard — by extending that no-manual-lookup convenience to longer forms and more kinds of information.

For Google the stakes are larger than saving a few copy-and-paste cycles. The browser is a gateway to Search and to Gemini, and the smoother form filling gets, the more reasons users have to stay inside Chrome and Google's AI ecosystem.

The feature is rolling out to U.S. users on the desktop and in the iOS and Android apps for Gemini in Chrome. Google has not said when other regions or additional account types will get it.

What to watch next is the granularity of control: whether users can authorize only certain categories of data, review and delete what was used, and how Google draws the line between convenience and privacy once inbox content flows into form filling.