How to disable Send Link to your Devices on Windows/macOS
If we disable this feature, then upon right-clicking any active internet tab, we won’t see the send to device feature in the status bar. Now, let’s explain the steps that will help you do this.
Step-1 In the open Chrome Browser, click on the three-dot on the right side of the screen.
Step-2 When the drop-down menu opens, click on Settings
Step-3 Click on Sync and Google Services > Click on Manage Sync
Step-4 You will see a number of tabs. Scroll down to Open Tabs. Tap on the toggle to grey it out/disable.
That’s it. Now, any active tab will not be sent to other mobile devices on which you are logged to Chrome.
Now, let’s move on to the Android OS and see how we can accomplish the same on an Android smartphone.
How to disable Send Link Devices on Android OS
Disabling the feature won’t show active Tabs open on other devices when you tap on the Recent Tabs menu on your Android device.
- Go to the menu in the Chrome Browser by taping on the three-dot. Tap on Settings.
- Go to Settings > tap on Sync and Google services > tap on Manage Sync.

- Under Manage Sync, there is a list of checkboxes.
- Tap to uncheck the box beside the option Open Tabs.

Now, webpages open and sent from other devices will not be available on your Android device. On the active webpage, you will no more see the option to send the webpage to any other device in which you are logged-in the Chrome browser.
How to disable Send Link to Devices on iOS
Now, let’s check out how we can disable Send Link to your Devices on the devices running iOS. The steps are pretty much the same as what we did on the AndroidOS powered devices.
- Go to the menu in the Chrome Browser by taping on the three-dot. Tap on Settings.
- Go to Settings > tap on Sync and Google services > tap on Manage Sync
- You will see a list of options with Toggles. Scroll down to Open tabs.
- Tap on the Open Tabs toggles to disable it.
- Now, tap on Done to save the settings
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Can we Re-enable the Send Link to your Devices option.?
Of course, it is possible to re-enable this feature on any of your devices through which you are logged into Chrome. All you have to do is go to Settings in Chrome. Under Manage Sync, you have to tap the toggle on the Open Tabs to enable the feature.
So, that was all about how to disable Send Link to your Devices option on Google Chrome browser. We hope that this guide was useful to you.