Mobile browsing is becoming more organised as Google expands desktop-style features to smartphones. The company has started rolling out a pinned tabs feature in Chrome for Android, allowing users to keep important web pages easily accessible at all times.
The Mountain View-based tech giant, Google, first announced the feature in December 2025 and has now begun releasing it through the latest Chrome for Android update. Previously, pinned tabs were available only on Windows, Mac, and Linux versions of the browser.
The functionality was spotted in Chrome for Android version 144.0.7559.132. Users can pin a tab by pressing and holding it and selecting the “Pin tab” option from the menu. Once pinned, the tab remains fixed at the top of the tabs section. Even if the browser is closed, the pinned tab reappears at the top when Chrome is reopened. Users can unpin the tab using the same steps or by closing it.
While announcing the feature earlier, the company said that “pinned pages stay saved at the front of your browser, letting you pick up right where you left off”.
The update is part of Google’s broader effort to deliver a more desktop-like browsing experience on Android smartphones. The company is also reportedly working to improve Chrome’s compatibility with Android’s upcoming Desktop Mode.
Desktop Mode is expected to arrive as part of the Android 16 Quarterly Platform Release 1 (QPR1). The feature enables a desktop-style interface when a compatible Pixel device is connected to an external display. It transforms the interface into a multi-window layout, similar to the experience offered by Samsung’s DeX functionality.
Reports indicate that Chrome will automatically switch its user agent when connected to a secondary display, allowing websites to load desktop versions instead of mobile layouts. The move aims to bridge the gap between mobile and desktop productivity experiences for Android users.
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