Google announced on 28 October that Chrome's enhanced autofill can suggest details from Gmail in online forms. These include flight booking numbers, shipment tracking numbers and order numbers. The feature is available in the United States to Gemini in Chrome users aged 18 or over who have turned on Personal Intelligence, on desktop, Android and iOS. Suggestions carry a Gemini icon, and users can view the source email, remove a suggestion or switch the feature off.

What it means: The feature shows how Google is gradually tying its services together around Gemini: the browser now sees not only what users type but also what sits in their inbox. For the average user it is a practical convenience, because there is no need to hunt for a booking or tracking number. For businesses the picture is more complicated. On company Google Workspace accounts, giving an AI assistant access to emails with invoices, contracts or customer details is a matter of security policy, not personal choice. For now the feature is limited to the United States and to personal accounts with explicit consent, but IT administrators in Greece should know which Chrome and Gemini settings control such connections before it reaches Europe. For those who build online shops and forms, correct field labelling becomes more important, because AI assistants will increasingly fill in details on the user's behalf. Finally, being able to see the source email is a good transparency practice that should become the norm.

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