diff --git a/packages/service-worker/worker/src/assets.ts b/packages/service-worker/worker/src/assets.ts
index f380f56a2286..54fb4f66dc60 100644
--- a/packages/service-worker/worker/src/assets.ts
+++ b/packages/service-worker/worker/src/assets.ts
@@ -501,21 +501,35 @@ export abstract class AssetGroup {
    * Create a new `Request` based on the specified URL and `RequestInit` options, preserving only
    * metadata that are known to be safe.
    *
-   * Currently, only headers and redirect policy are preserved.
+   * Currently, headers, redirect policy, an explicit `credentials: 'omit'`, and the HTTP cache
+   * mode are preserved.
    *
    * NOTE:
-   *   Things like credential inclusion are intentionally omitted to avoid issues with opaque
-   *   responses.
-   *
+   *   `credentials: 'same-origin'` and `credentials: 'include'` are intentionally not preserved.
+   *   Forwarding `'include'` could leak cookies to cross-origin asset hosts, and forwarding
+   *   `'same-origin'` matches the default `fetch()` behavior so there is nothing to preserve.
+   *   Requests with `cache: 'only-if-cached'` and `mode !== 'same-origin'` are short-circuited
+   *   earlier in `Driver.onFetch()` (they are a known Chrome DevTools quirk), so no special
+   *   handling for that combination is needed here.
    * TODO(gkalpak):
    *   Investigate preserving more metadata. See, also, discussion on preserving `mode`:
-   *   https://github.com/angular/angular/issues/41931#issuecomment-1227601347
+   *   https://github.com/angular/angular/issues/41931#issuecomment-1227601347.
    */
   private newRequestWithMetadata(url: string, options: RequestInit): Request {
-    return this.adapter.newRequest(url, {
+    const init: RequestInit = {
       headers: options.headers,
       redirect: options.redirect,
-    });
+    };
+
+    if (options.credentials === 'omit') {
+      init.credentials = 'omit';
+    }
+
+    if (options.cache !== undefined) {
+      init.cache = options.cache;
+    }
+
+    return this.adapter.newRequest(url, init);
   }
 
   /**
diff --git a/packages/service-worker/worker/test/happy_spec.ts b/packages/service-worker/worker/test/happy_spec.ts
index 06bc2c329769..9fbf8314f92e 100644
--- a/packages/service-worker/worker/test/happy_spec.ts
+++ b/packages/service-worker/worker/test/happy_spec.ts
@@ -1652,6 +1652,30 @@ import {envIsSupported} from '../testing/utils';
         expect((bazReq as any).unknownOption).toBeUndefined();
       });
 
+      it(`passes 'credentials: omit' through to the server`, async () => {
+        // Request a lazy-cached asset (so that it is fetched from the network) and provide an
+        // explicit anonymous credentials mode.
+        const reqInit = {credentials: 'omit'};
+        expect(await makeRequest(scope, '/baz.txt', undefined, reqInit)).toBe('this is baz');
+
+        // Verify that the explicit `'omit'` value was preserved (instead of being replaced by the
+        // default `'same-origin'`).
+        const [bazReq] = server.getRequestsFor('/baz.txt');
+        expect(bazReq.credentials).toBe('omit');
+      });
+
+      it(`passes 'cache' through to the server`, async () => {
+        // Request a lazy-cached asset (so that it is fetched from the network) and provide an
+        // explicit HTTP cache mode.
+        const reqInit = {cache: 'no-store'};
+        expect(await makeRequest(scope, '/baz.txt', undefined, reqInit)).toBe('this is baz');
+
+        // Verify that the explicit `cache` value was preserved (instead of being replaced by the
+        // default `'default'`).
+        const [bazReq] = server.getRequestsFor('/baz.txt');
+        expect(bazReq.cache).toBe('no-store');
+      });
+
       describe('for redirect requests', () => {
         it('passes headers through to the server', async () => {
           // Request a redirected, lazy-cached asset (so that it is fetched from the network) and
@@ -1692,6 +1716,34 @@ import {envIsSupported} from '../testing/utils';
             makeRequest(scope, '/lazy/redirected.txt', undefined, {redirect: 'error'}),
           ).toBeRejected();
         });
+
+        it(`passes 'credentials: omit' through to the server`, async () => {
+          // Request a redirected, lazy-cached asset (so that it is fetched from the network) and
+          // provide an explicit anonymous credentials mode.
+          const reqInit = {credentials: 'omit'};
+          expect(await makeRequest(scope, '/lazy/redirected.txt', undefined, reqInit)).toBe(
+            'this was a redirect too',
+          );
+
+          // Verify that the explicit `'omit'` value was preserved across the redirect
+          // reconstruction (instead of being replaced by the default `'same-origin'`).
+          const [redirectReq] = server.getRequestsFor('/lazy/redirect-target.txt');
+          expect(redirectReq.credentials).toBe('omit');
+        });
+
+        it(`passes 'cache' through to the server`, async () => {
+          // Request a redirected, lazy-cached asset (so that it is fetched from the network) and
+          // provide an explicit HTTP cache mode.
+          const reqInit = {cache: 'no-store'};
+          expect(await makeRequest(scope, '/lazy/redirected.txt', undefined, reqInit)).toBe(
+            'this was a redirect too',
+          );
+
+          // Verify that the explicit `cache` value was preserved across the redirect
+          // reconstruction (instead of being replaced by the default `'default'`).
+          const [redirectReq] = server.getRequestsFor('/lazy/redirect-target.txt');
+          expect(redirectReq.cache).toBe('no-store');
+        });
       });
     });
 
diff --git a/packages/service-worker/worker/testing/fetch.ts b/packages/service-worker/worker/testing/fetch.ts
index 587cde897c6c..1f815436aa18 100644
--- a/packages/service-worker/worker/testing/fetch.ts
+++ b/packages/service-worker/worker/testing/fetch.ts
@@ -167,6 +167,7 @@ export class MockRequest extends MockBody implements Request {
     }
     return new MockRequest(this.url, {
       body: this._body,
+      cache: this.cache,
       mode: this.mode,
       credentials: this.credentials,
       headers: this.headers,