Google is about to give Android users more control over the files they download with Chrome. At the moment, the download options are very limited, which means that many people turn to dedicated download managers, but soon this will no longer be necessary. Currently available as an experimental feature, Download Later will give you a new download scheduling option. In addition to giving you the ability to specify a date and time to download a file, the feature also allows you to save your data permissions by choosing to download a file when connected to Wi-Fi. Of course, you can always choose to download the files immediately, but for anyone with a limited data allowance, the ability to pause a download until a Wi-Fi connection is available makes a lot of sense. . This means it's possible to schedule the download to start automatically instead of trying to remember to start it manually - and you'll probably forget! But the ability to schedule downloads for a particular date and time, as first reported by Techdows, is also very useful. This means that if you want to download a large file, you can schedule it to arrive at night or at another time, not use your phone or internet connection for anything else. Chrome makes it easy to keep track of the download you postponed in this way via a new "Scheduled for Later" tab on the Downloads page.
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If you want to try out the new download scheduling feature, you'll need to be running the canary version of Chrome. Google describes it as "unstable", but choosing to use this browser preview version gives you the option to try new features sooner. You can download Chrome Canary from Google Play, then you will need to follow the steps below to activate the feature:
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