Use Chrome as your RSS Feed Reader

You can now follow blog or news RSS feeds in Chrome for Android.

It's not as full featured as Feedly (or Google Reader RIP), but it's a handy way to see the latest updates.

Starting today, we're experimenting on Chrome stable with a Following feature. You can choose websites to follow, and their RSS updates will appear on Chrome's new tab page. We've been working on this for a while & I'm super excited to hear what people think 👇 pic.twitter.com/GUcdSQTv3E

— Adrienne P🎃rter Felt (@__apf__) October 8, 2021

This is currently available in Chrome 94 or higher for Android, and is coming soon to iOS. Eventually it should also be available on desktop. 

Watch a quick demonstration, or read on for detailed instructions.

Enable the Chrome Web Feed Flag 

If you have Chrome 94, but the Following feature is not yet enabled, you can turn it on by enabling Web Feed in Chrome Flags. 

1. Open the Chrome Android app

2. Enter chrome://flags in the address bar

3. Find "Web Feed"

4. Tap the current setting ("Default") and select "Enabled"

5. Relaunch Chrome

When you open a new tab in Chrome you will see a new Following tab. 

Follow a RSS feed in Chrome

Once Web Feed is enabled, you can then Follow blogs and news sites that have an RSS feed. 

1. Open a website with a feed. 

Give it a try with this blog (https://www.peggyktc.com), the official YouTube blog (https://blog.youtube) or your favorite news site..

2. Tap the 3 dot menu icon at top right

3. At the bottom of the menu, tap the option to "Follow"

Now when you open a new tab in Chrome, your followed blogs and sites will appear on the "Follow" tab.

Posts from each feed are grouped together.

Unfollow a RSS feed in Chrome

To unfollow a RSS feed: 

1. Open a new tab in Chrome and select the Following tab

2. Tap the gear icon at the top right of the Following tab

3. To edit the blogs you are following select "Manage".

4. On the Manage screen, select "Following" 

5. On the "Following" screen you will see a list of the sites you are following. Deselect any you want to unfollow.