Google is Adding a Price Tracking Tool to Chrome on Android
After pulling the plug on its Shopping app on Android earlier this month to replace it with the web app, Google is bringing one of the app’s useful features to Chrome. Soon, Chrome for Android will have a price-tracking feature.
Live now in the latest Chrome for Android Canary update, v90, Google has debuted its price-tracking feature, albeit behind a flag.
If you dive into the flags menu and swap the “Tab Grid Layout” option to enable price notifications, the new option appears as the folks over at SmartDroid highlighted. You can directly access this option using chrome://flags/#enabled-tab-grid-layout from Chrome Canary. From there, you can switch the setting to “Enabled Price notifications.”
The process laid out above should do the trick, but as Android Police points out, you might need to close and reopen Chrome to get the price tracker to show up.
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I think price tracking is currently rolling out to select websites because I haven't seen the track price icon on the websites I regularly shop at, but I do see it on product pages on bestbuy.com.
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Anyone having problems with the new price tracking feature and know how to enable it?
I've followed these instructions because I can't see it anywhere, but enable-tab-grid-layout isn't an option in flags.
Enter the following in the address bar: chrome://flags/#enable-tab-grid-layout and open the drop-down menu of the highlighted setting. From this menu, simply tap on "Enabled Price notifications" to turn on price tracking.
Chrome is up to date. Version 108.0.5359.95 (Official Build) (64-bit)
I think price tracking is currently rolling out to select websites because I haven't seen the track price icon on the websites I regularly shop at, but I do see it on product pages on bestbuy.com.
I'm having the same problem. Are you in the USA? I am out of the country and thought it might not be available where I am currently at. But I set my VPN to a USA server and still can't get it. Like you, I checked my sync and my Web and App activity and they are both set as they should be. I got the opening intro on my Chrome tab when I turned my computer on and it said it is a new feature. It is pretty shitty of them to advertise a feature to users who can't get it.