{"id":257185,"date":"2026-05-27T12:59:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T16:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/27\/chrome-is-broken-on-android-tablets-and-google-is-scrambling-to-fix-it\/"},"modified":"2026-05-27T16:35:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T20:35:11","slug":"chrome-is-broken-on-android-tablets-and-google-is-scrambling-to-fix-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/27\/chrome-is-broken-on-android-tablets-and-google-is-scrambling-to-fix-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Chrome is broken on Android tablets, and Google is scrambling to fix it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.androidpolice.com\/new-chrome-android-tablet-bug\/\">Chrome is broken on Android tablets, and Google is scrambling to fix it<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.androidpolice.com\/new-chrome-android-tablet-bug\/\">https:\/\/www.androidpolice.com\/new-chrome-android-tablet-bug\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-27 12:59:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.androidpolice.com\">www.androidpolice.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>                    <span data-field=\"label\" class=\"article-card-label\">Related<\/span><\/p>\n<p>As highlighted by several users on Reddit and subsequently on Chrome&#8217;s Issue Tracker, tapping the Chrome icon, specifically on Android tablets, results in a &#8220;You can have up to 5 windows&#8221; prompt. The error prompt is highlighted only after the system fails to open a Chrome instance (via PiunikaWeb).<\/p>\n<p>This happens even if you have no other Chrome instances open. Further, it also happens when you have no other apps open. <\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s what the error prompt looks like:<\/p>\n<p>This isn&#8217;t an isolated issue with just one OEM. Although most of the reports about the bug were shared by Samsung tablet users, the same bug is also affecting Xiamomi and Lenovo tablet users, highlighting an issue with Android\/Chrome, and not a specific OEM&#8217;s implementation. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Same issue and same tablet, it was working fine yesterday. Today it won&#8217;t let me open chrome at all, says you can have 5 windows message, but won&#8217;t open. Also tried restarting, clear cache, and force stop app, didn&#8217;t work,&#8221; wrote one user, while a different one wrote &#8220;I&#8217;m having the same issue, only happened recently. Im unsure how many tabs there is as I can&#8217;t even open chrome, it would instantly close upon opening.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s worth noting that although there isn&#8217;t an immediate workaround for the issue, Google knows about the bug and is working on rolling out a fix. <\/p>\n<p>The tech giant, on the original Reddit post embedded above, is asking for more information to help&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.androidpolice.com\/new-chrome-android-tablet-bug\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chrome is broken on Android tablets, and Google is scrambling to fix it https:\/\/www.androidpolice.com\/new-chrome-android-tablet-bug\/ Publish&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":257186,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/static0.anpoimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/google-chrome-1-ap24-hero-jpg.jpg?w=1600&h=900&fit=crop","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[70,108,86],"class_list":["post-257185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-android","tag-google","tag-lenovo","tag-samsung"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257185"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=257185"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257185\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":257187,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257185\/revisions\/257187"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/257186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}