ChromeOS Release Notes

Assign preferred key combinations to personalize your shortcuts in ChromeOS. Whether you want to improve one-handed accessibility, make them easier to remember, or bring over shortcuts you’re used to in other systems, custom keyboard shortcuts can simplify your day-to-day workflows.

You can build a new shortcut through Settings > Device > Keyboard and inputs > View keyboard shortcuts > Overview mode > Edit > Add Shortcut.

If your mouse has more than two buttons, you can now assign them to a set of actions—such as taking a screenshot, muting and unmuting, or inserting emojis. You can also select a key combination to assign to your buttons for any action performed by a keyboard shortcut.

Access these settings through Settings > Device > Mouse > Customize mouse buttons.

Faster Split Screen setup offers a quicker way to set up your window layout by showing an overview of your open windows on the other side of the screen. With Faster Split Screen, once you snap (or lock) a window in place on one side, you can choose an already-open window from Overview to snap into the other side—or select something from the shelf (the row of apps located at the bottom or side of your screen).

From ChromeOS 123, ChromeOS Flex will upgrade to the Floss Bluetooth stack. As part of this upgrade, the listed devices no longer support Bluetooth functionality. If Bluetooth functionality is critical for these devices, we recommend moving these devices to the LTS channel⁠⁠ to extend the Bluetooth functionality through to October 2024.

• HP Probook 4530s
• Lenovo ThinkPad T420
• HP Elitebook 8460p
• Apple iMac 11,2
• Lenovo ThinkPad x220
• Dell Vostro 3550
• HP 3115m
• HP Elitebook 2560p
• HP ProBook 6465b
• Lenovo ThinkPad L420

If your devices are unable to connect to Bluetooth after updating to ChromeOS 123, go to chrome://flags and set the flag Use Floss instead of BlueZ to Disabled.

With per-app permissions for microphone and camera, you can go directly to privacy settings to view which apps need access and modify your app permissions—rather than going to two separate places. ChromeOS 123 consolidates app permissions and privacy controls, giving users more transparency by showing which apps need access to privacy sensors and how app permissions are affected by privacy control states.

Change to your preferred language for individual Android apps. These new settings are available in Settings > Apps > Manage your apps > App language.

In ChromeOS 123, we’ve added new natural sounding TTS voices that work offline and are available in 31 languages. Find them under Accessibility settings.

You can now share your cellular network on your Chromebook as a hotspot to other devices without an internet connection. As of ChromeOS 123, this feature only supports T-Mobile in the US. Enable a hotspot by opening Network Settings and toggling on Hotspot.

In August 2023, data processor mode for ChromeOS was launched in the Netherlands to give organizations more transparency and control over data sent to and processed by Google. We have now extended this mode to Norway and Belgium. Data Processor mode is available in the Admin console through Device > Chrome > Compliance. For more information, see our Help Center article⁠.

On new enterprise domains, ChromeOS now deactivates Android apps for unaffiliated ChromeOS users by default. Unaffiliated ChromeOS users are users on unmanaged devices or on devices that are managed by a different domain than the user. Enterprise customers who want to change the default setting, see our Help Center article⁠⁠.

Create and share transcribed screen recordings. You can now trim your screencasts sentence-by-sentence, add and remove paragraph breaks, mute segments of your recordings, and title sections to make long recordings easier to navigate.

ChromeOS media player now has bigger buttons—and colors to match your wallpaper. Play video or audio to reveal the media player under Quick Settings and click the Pin icon to move the media player to the shelf. ChromeOS media player lets you control media being cast or start casting media to speakers and screens on your local network.

Battery Saver will now reduce brightness on your display and keyboard backlighting, throttle display refresh rate and available compute budget, and turn off certain energy-intensive background functions to let you squeeze more battery life out of your devices. When enabled, Battery Saver switches on automatically when your battery level reaches 20%.

Three new Generative AI (GenAI) features are now available for managed users signed into Chrome browser:

• Tab organizer: Chrome can automatically suggest tab groups based on the URL and title of opened websites. To use this feature, right-click on any tab and select Organize similar tabs.
• Create themes with AI: Create a unique Chrome theme (a combination of a color and a wallpaper image) using GenAI. To use the feature, open a new tab. At the bottom right click Customize Chrome. Select Change theme > Create with AI. You can then choose from preset options for subject, mood, style, and color.
• Get help writing on the web with AI: Kickstart the writing process, and write with more confidence, in free-form text fields across the web. To use this feature, right-click on a text field and select Help me write.

Initially, these three features will only be available to users in English in the US. Admins can control these settings using the following policies: TabOrganizerSettings⁠⁠, CreateThemesSettings⁠⁠ and HelpMeWriteSettings⁠⁠.

BeyondCorp Enterprise (BCE)⁠⁠ enables continuous and real-time end-to-end protection. Content scanning with BCE is a new way to evaluate and enforce data controls restrictions on file transfers based on signals from BeyondCorp Enterprise.

We’ve introduced certain internal changes to our SAML single sign-on implementation. These changes will impact customers with misconfigured SAML settings. In particular, if you set the policy LoginAuthenticationBehavior⁠⁠ to Redirect to SAML IdP by default, ensure that the Single Sign-on⁠⁠ policy is set to Enable SAML—otherwise your SAML-based IdP won’t be loaded.

From ChromeOS 122 on, certain third-party Identity Management Providers (IdPs) can use badge authentication on ChromeOS devices. Users can simply start a session with a badge tap, and leave the session with another badge tap. To learn more, see Set up badge-based authentication⁠⁠.

ChromeOS 122 includes new options in the Admin console for Internet Key Exchange Protocol Version 2 (IKEv2⁠⁠) VPN protocols.

Admins can now specify if there are certain extensions that users must turn on to use Incognito mode. There is a new toggle in Admin console > Apps & extensions that can be applied for individual extensions. To use Incognito mode, users need to turn on Allow in Incognito for all required enterprise extensions.

When using App Streaming on Chromebooks, you can now use ChromeVox to navigate a streaming Android app. The Android app’s accessibility tree is streamed in tandem with the app itself and can be interacted with using ChromeOS screen reader capabilities.

You can now enable dictation using search + d on your keyboard (or the dictation key on some Logitech keyboards). When enabling dictation, a dialog will appear to inform you that you are about to enable dictation, that certain speech files may be downloaded, and where to go to change your dictation language.

As of January 01, 2024, support has been discontinued for the ChromeOS Flex devices that officially ended support in 2023. The devices will continue to receive ChromeOS Flex updates but these updates will no longer be tested or maintained by the Flex team. For the full list of devices ending support you can review our Certified models list⁠⁠.

With a compatible printer, you can now print photographs on photograph paper, without borders.

ChromeOS 121 removes the welcome or onboarding messages offered to a new user when launching Assistant on ChromeOS for the first time.

ChromeOS Data Control events will have additional fields to enrich admin insights in the security investigation tool.

Use new DLP file restrictions to control what users can do with files on ChromeOS devices through source and destination based rules. DLP file restrictions are now available for events like copy and paste, screen capture, screen sharing, and printing. IT administrators can create an information protection strategy with rules based on the data source, destination and user.

ChromeOS 120 introduces fast access to operations such as desk visualization, desk switching, desk creation, and desk ordering via a new shelf button. The ChromeOS Virtual Desk Button (“Bento Button”) is now available for all users who utilize virtual desks.

ChromeOS 120 deprecates support for MPEG4 Part 2 video codec and AVI container. You can temporarily re-enable support for this functionality using chrome://flags/#cros-legacy-media-formats until ChromeOS 125, after which support will be removed.

ChromeOS 120 adds new controls to let users disable mouse scroll acceleration and adjust scroll speed.

Configure settings for actions such as right-click, home, end, and page up in the Customize keyboard keys subpage.

Picture-in-Picture (PiP) windows can now be resized with a pinch gesture. Place two fingers on the window and pinch or spread to adjust the window size to your screen.

ChromeOS 120 brings a new dynamic color palette to the floating Emoji and GIF Picker.

Authentication events (login/out lock/unlock) can now be enabled as part of Extended Detection and Response (XDR) on ChromeOS. Once rollout is complete, XDR systems will be able to use these events to provide insights on the device security posture.

Get details about installed apps. Navigate to Settings > Apps > Manage your apps, select an app to view the app’s storage usage, version number, and information about how it was installed.

• PowerManagementIdleSettings⁠⁠: Manage screen dim, screen off, and idle actions.
• ScreenLockDelays⁠⁠: Set the length of time before a screen lock when a user is idle.
• LidCloseAction⁠⁠: Specify the action to take when the lid of the device is closed.
• ChromeOsLockOnIdleSuspend⁠⁠: Set whether the screen locks after the device’s lid is closed.
• PrivateNetworkAccessRestrictionsEnabled⁠⁠: Specify whether to apply restrictions to requests to more-private network endpoints.
• DeviceFlexHwDataForProductImprovementEnabled⁠⁠: Send hardware data to Google to support improvements to ChromeOS Flex.
• IPv6ReachabilityOverrideEnabled⁠⁠: Enable IPv6 reachability check override.
• DataUrlInSvgUseEnabled⁠⁠: Enable Data URL support for SVGUseElement, which will be disabled by default starting in ChromeOS 119.

Chrome 119 removes WebSQL access in all contexts. Access to WebSQL is available until Chrome 123 using the WebSQLAccess⁠⁠ policy, but we recommend that WebSQL users switch to SQLite compiled to WebAssembly.

Completely turn off your camera or microphone with a single click. ChromeOS users can now manage their camera and microphone settings across the operating system from one place: Settings > Security and Privacy > Privacy controls.

You can now organize, save, and recall groups of tabs with Tab Groups. Tab Groups sync between devices to provide a cohesive user experience. You can disable syncing Tab Groups using the SyncTypesListDisabled⁠⁠ policy.

Enterprise users on Chromebook Plus⁠⁠ devices can now make their My Drive section of Google Drive available offline. You can control offline syncing using the DriveFileSyncAvailable⁠⁠ enterprise policy.

To improve Chrome’s stability, DevTools internal errors are now reported through Chrome’s existing crash reporting pipeline. This provides visibility into the stability of Chrome DevTools.

This GUI improvement is targeted toward improving users’ understanding of the associated effects on their data.

With App Launch Automation, admins can now configure groups of applications, windows and tools that can be launched automatically on startup or on-demand by users throughout their day.

Chrome 119 introduces a new PPAPISharedImagesForVideoDecoderAllowed⁠⁠ policy to control the recent refactor for VideoDecoder APIs in PPAPI plugin.

For standard Safe Browsing protection users, visited URLs now have their safety checked in real time instead of against a less frequently updated local list of unsafe URLs. If needed, the feature can be disabled through the policy SafeBrowsingProxiedRealTimeChecksAllowed⁠⁠.

Prior to Chrome 119, when a cross origin redirect, such as from foo.test to bar.test, happened with an Authorization header, Chrome preserved the Authorization header and bar.test could receive the header. Starting Chrome 119, Chrome removes Authorization headers when cross origin redirects happen.

Let your users manage multiple tabs within a single window by displaying your Progressive Web App (PWA) in tabbed application mode. Tabbed application mode provides an intuitive, familiar tab navigation strip for users to manage multiple files, documents, or conversations simultaneously.

To use tabbed application mode with your PWA, update display_override in your web app manifest:

{
  "display": "standalone",
  "display_override": ["tabbed"]
}

Touch text editing is easier and more intuitive. Updates to touch text editing include a more intuitive gesture system, usability improvements around gesture intentions and text legibility, and a brand new magnifier that automatically shows precise cursor positions.

Password recovery is faster. ChromeOS users who have forgotten their password can now recover their account along with all associated local data, rather than losing their local data. Administrators can control this feature with the RecoveryFactorBehavior policy.

ChromeOS now provides more in-context help for printing, including an easier way to save printers, new set up instructions and help content, and printer status directly integrated on the settings page.

Take timelapse video without leaving the built-in Camera App on your ChromeOS device. To use this feature, open the Camera App, select Video, and then select Timelapse. Camera App determines the right speed for the timelapse video based on duration recorded—and you can record for as long as you have space available on your device.

Control the look of your ChromeOS device using the new ChromeOS Personalization App. Thanks to Google Material 3⁠⁠, Google’s new design platform, ChromeOS 117 brings with it:

• A new set of themes which dynamically update to reflect your wallpaper and style.
• A new look for almost all system surfaces with updated text, menus, icons or elements.

Adaptive Charging is a new ChromeOS power management feature. Devices with Adaptive Charging enabled via Settings will charge to 80% and then complete charging to 100% based on an ML model’s prediction for when you will unplug your device. Reducing the time a device spends at 100% charge helps preserve the battery’s health and its ability to hold a charge over the lifetime of the device.

ChromeOS now has built-in color correction settings that make it easier to see colors on your screen. In ChromeOS Accessibility settings, under Display and Magnification, you can enable color filters for protanopia, deuteranopia or tritanopia, or to view the display in grayscale. Use a slider to customize the filters’ intensity to meet your needs.

ChromeOS 117 introduces enhancements to Clipboard History, including new entry points, ways to discover the feature, and simplifying feature comprehension—making it easier to discover and use. You can now see more detail for items in your clipboard history and access clipboard history items nested directly in context menus.

Android 13 has started to roll out to ChromeOS. Test your app with Android 13 behavior changes—and develop with Android 13 APIs—by setting up the Android 13 SDK⁠⁠, using an Android Virtual Device (AVD), or testing on ChromeOS devices updated with Android 13.

Starting in ChromeOS 117, and gradually applying to all ChromeOS devices, this Bluetooth software change brings the Android Bluetooth stack, Fluoride, to ChromeOS. The transition happens seamlessly on login, preserving existing paired devices, and should work with Bluetooth devices today with no interruptions. If you experience issues, please file feedback and, if necessary, disable the new stack via chrome://flags/#bluetooth-use-floss.

Audible sounds now indicate battery status. Users can turn on and off these sounds and Admins can control them using the [DeviceLowBatterySoundEnabled](https://chromeenterprise.google/policies/#DeviceLowBatterySoundEnabled) policy.

The emoji picker now supports GIFs. Search and find the perfect GIF to express yourself. For managed devices, this feature is disabled by default.

See your upcoming events directly from the calendar view and join any digital meetings directly with the new Join button.

We’ve made some changes to the initial out-of-the-box experience (OOBE) dialog that explains what ChromeVox is, who might benefit from activating ChromeVox, and requires pressing space instead of offering an on-screen button. With this update, we hope to reduce the number of users who inadvertently activate ChromeVox.

When you search for the status of your OS version, battery, RAM, storage, or CPU, in Launcher, you can now see that information previewed in the search results.

Administrators can now control and limit the available content on end-users login and lock screens when identity federation is used with a third party identity provider (using SAML or OIDC), using two new policies: [DeviceAuthenticationURLAllowlist](https://chromeenterprise.google/policies/#DeviceAuthenticationURLAllowlist) and [DeviceAuthenticationURLBlocklist](https://chromeenterprise.google/policies/#DeviceAuthenticationURLBlocklist).

This feature enables administrators to demand managed users to enroll their non-zero touch devices by introducing a new user policy, UserEnrollmentNudging, which can be configured to require enrollment of the given user. If the policy is enabled and the managed user misses the enrollment step and performs first sign in on the device, a pop-up is shown suggesting to either switch to enrollment flow or use another email for sign-in, essentially preventing the managed user from signing in without enrollment.

ChromeOS 116 introduces a data processor mode⁠⁠ for a suite of ChromeOS features and services called Essential Services⁠⁠. Now, features and services for which Google remains solely a data controller are called “Optional Services”. New tools available in data processor mode for ChromeOS include a data processor mode landing page in the Admin console, the ability to turn on/off individual Optional Services, tools to assist customers with Data Subject Access Requests (DSARs), and a tool to assist customers with data subject deletion requests.

Input method support within Linux apps on ChromeOS is now available by default. You can now use Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese, and other keyboard languages⁠⁠ in locally installed Linux apps on Chromebooks, like VS Code and LibreOffice—a long standing feature request⁠⁠. Input method support is currently available for GTK⁠⁠ and Electron apps. This update also enables use of the emoji picker.

As early as Chrome 116, Chrome Apps webview⁠⁠ usage has a new restriction. Using the webview NewWindow⁠⁠ event to attach to a webview element in another App window causes the window reference returned by the window.open call in the originating webview to be invalidated. A temporary policy, ChromeAppsWebViewPermissiveBehaviorAllowed⁠⁠, is available to give enterprises time to address possible breakage related to these changes.

Autocorrect is now enabled by default for English in compatible apps, automatically fixing typos, spelling, and other errors. In addition to the new Autocorrect for physical keyboards, this update also enhances the performance of the virtual keyboard’s Autocorrect and other Assistive features.

Through Optical Character Recognition (OCR), users can convert images to text, so that they can access and read them using a screen reader.

In ChromeOS 116, you now access the existing settings for ChromeVox under the ChromeOS Accessibility settings pages.

Users can now manage settings for their input peripherals, such as their mouse and keyboard, at the device level and apply different values for different devices.

Now, users can see a detailed view of the data an Android app can access on the Apps page in Settings, and they can easily manage those permissions.

Starting with ChromeOS 116, we streamline the end user configuration flows for ChromeOS Kerberos customers. The new UI enhancements guide users through configuring their Kerberos accounts in a guided flow, similar to Password Manager. For details, see this help center⁠⁠ article.

The commercial launch of screensaver for the login screen or MGS lock screen allows admins to customize the appearance of idle devices. Newly added admin settings include the abilities to turn on/off the screensaver, to provide a list of screensaver images, and to customize idle times.

The policy for URL-keyed anonymized data collection is now supported in Kiosk mode. This policy will be added to the Admin console in a future release.

As of ChromeOS 115, App Streaming enhances the Phone Hub⁠⁠ experience, by allowing users to see and interact with streamed apps running on their Pixel phone. When a user receives a mirrored conversation notification from their Pixel phone, tapping on that notification kicks off an app stream directly to the user’s ChromeOS desktop. This is part of a Google-wide ambient computing⁠⁠ effort.

In Chrome 115, a new window layout menu in ChromeOS helps to accelerate common actions like split-screening two windows. In addition, we’re adding a new window state, float, which allows users to set a window as always-on-top.

While using cast moderator⁠⁠, sometimes users need a quick way to pause what they are casting from their device. In ChromeOS 115, with Pause cast, you can now pause what you cast to the shared screen on a still image, while you do something else on your computer. In ChromeOS Quick Settings or from Chrome browser Cast menu, select Pause to display the last casted screen on the cast receiver. While paused, other actions you perform on your computer are not cast to the cast receiver. When cast is resumed, your computer starts mirroring to the cast receiver again.

In ChromeOS 115, the Gallery PDF toolkit makes it easier for users to sign their documents, allowing for the creation of a free-hand signature that is saved in the app for subsequent use. Gallery is the ChromeOS media multi-tool that provides users with fast, consistent, and discoverable ways to view, tweak, and route various media types.

Passpoint streamlines Wi-Fi access and eliminates the need for users to find and authenticate a network each time they visit. Once a user accesses the Wi-Fi network offered at a location, the Passpoint-enabled client device will automatically connect upon subsequent visits. Wi-Fi Passpoint is now supported on ChromeOS through supported Android applications. Wi-Fi Passpoint is a set of Wi-Fi mechanisms defined by the Wi-Fi Alliance that facilitate and automate the provisioning and configuration of secure Wi-Fi networks while also minimizing user intervention. Once provisioned, whenever a compatible and secured Wi-Fi network is in range, ChromeOS can automatically connect to it without the need for user interaction.

Some Google Text-to-Speech voices that were previously preinstalled are now downloaded over the network when they are needed. This frees up some space on the ChromeOS device.

The new Shortcut App offers a new navigation and taxonomy, easier in-app search functionalities and a refreshed shortcut visualization.

Cursive⁠⁠, a stylus-first notes app, will be pre-installed for all Enterprise and Education accounts on stylus-enabled Chromebooks. If you want to block access to the app⁠⁠, you can prevent Chromebooks in your enterprise from accessing cursive.apps.chrome.

Starting with ChromeOS 114, Passpoint will streamline Wi-Fi access and eliminate the need for users to find and authenticate a network each time they visit. Once a user accesses the Wi-Fi network offered at a location, the Passpoint-enabled client device will automatically connect upon subsequent visits.

Extensions allow admins to enforce security features and customizations in their organizational unit but they cannot be enforced in Incognito mode without user consent. This can be a problem as users can bypass extension-set features, for example, proxies by using Incognito mode for navigation.The MandatoryExtensionsForIncognitoNavigation⁠⁠ policy allows you to configure a list of extensions that users need to explicitly allow to run in Incognito, to use Incognito mode for navigation.

Settings on ChromeOS now have a more native OS settings experience housed in the Settings app, available through App Launcher or the cog icon in the Quick Settings menu. In ChromeOS 114, users can now find all sound controls in the ChromeOS Settings apps.

ChromeVox⁠⁠ is the built-in screen reader on Chromebooks. In ChromeOS 114, an audio indicator (an earcon) now plays when a user with ChromeVox enabled uses the ChromeVox keyboard shortcut to toggle selection on or off.

In ChromeOS 113, a new option allows users to preview screensaver settings before applying the change. This preview is especially useful when using Google Photos with animations.

Access the Rupee symbol faster than before. ChromeOS 112 introduced a Rupee symbol shortcut: ₹ (altgr+4). On the virtual keyboard, you can access the Rupee symbol in the More Symbols menu.

Enhance demos made with Screen Capture by letting users see your clicks and keyboard shortcuts on screen. Screen Capture brings users closer together—and makes it easier to collaborate in a remote and hybrid world.

From troubleshooting to standups, screencasts⁠⁠ let you work remotely as though you’re in the same office—wherever you are in the world. Now, screencasts can be recorded and transcribed in a wide range of languages including Spanish, Japanese, French, Italian, and German.

On ChromeOS devices, speech-to-text transcription is done on-device via SODA⁠⁠. SODA was only available for devices set to ENG-US—so, only English-speaking users in the US could record screencasts. ChromeOS 111 extends recording capabilities to a broader range of languages by integrating Google’s S3 Speech-to-Text API⁠⁠.

ChromeOS 111 includes an update to the algorithm that automatically matches your dark/light color theme to your wallpaper. Enjoy improved color aesthetics, readability, and contrast, for a more pleasant and accessible visual experience.

New ChromeOS releases don’t just add features—they include bug fixes and optimizations that keep ChromeOS stable. You can help by reporting bugs⁠⁠ to the developer community. Under the hood, the new release includes a variety of other improvements to events management, APIs, and UX.

ChromeOS 111 released to beta on February 9 and is currently available as a stable release. To continue getting essential ChromeOS information, sign up for the ChromeOS newsletter.

Trying out the latest version of ChromeOS? If you’re on a non-stable channel (such as Beta, Dev, or Canary), you can see which channel you’re on. Channel labeling now appears next to the Battery Icon on the bottom right of your screen.

Clicking on the the Time will open quick settings. There, you’ll see channel labeling, too, with the version you’re on and a button to quickly submit feedback. Clicking on the channel label will take you to a settings screen that includes the ability to change your channel, see your update schedule, and get build details for your device.

Quickly approve blocked websites on your child’s Chromebook without the Family Link App⁠⁠. When blocked from accessing a website, your child can ask you to approve their request in person.

For more details, see Manage your child’s account on Chromebook⁠⁠.

Sound more natural in calls and conferences when using a Bluetooth headset. Your ChromeOS device now increases call quality by reconstructing the high-frequency audio components that are not transmitted from Bluetooth headsets.

Manage your storage more effectively when using the ChromeOS Camera App⁠⁠. Now, if ChromeOS Camera detects that your system storage is running low, it shows a warning message—and stops recording before using all your storage.

Get the answers you need faster. As you share your problems, concerns, or suggestions through the Google Feedback form⁠⁠, Assistive Feedback returns related help articles to help you self-diagnose your problems.

ChromeOS 110 hit stable release in early February, bringing with it the above features and a variety of smaller enhancements. Other features include improvements to Select-to-speak⁠⁠ and the ability to view PostScript Printer Description (PPD) information across network printers.

If you use your ChromeOS device in multiple scenarios—such as in the office, school, and home—switching between audio devices just became easier. ChromeOS 109 maintains a priority list of audio devices, ordered by user preference. Activate, plug in, or unplug a headset or speakers, and your ChromeOS device will pull the associated settings.

In the ChromeOS color palette dialog, you can now choose between Palette and Custom tabs. Tapping the Custom tab displays a freeform color select tool. Users can also enter a HEX code to choose a specific color.

ChromeOS uses Happiness Tracking Surveys (HaTS)⁠⁠ surveys to measure user attitudes and ultimately improve user experiences. In ChromeOS 109, we send an expanded dataset for analysis to the User Metrics Analysis (UMA) server⁠⁠.

If you have a Chromebook with a touchscreen, it’s now even easier to type what you want with a newly redesigned virtual keyboard⁠⁠. With just a tap on the new header bar, you can switch between languages, pull up the emoji library, or access the handwriting tool. The virtual keyboard also processes fast typing even faster—no need to slow yourself down.

Manage your documents digitally. Now you can create multi-page PDFs using the document scanning function in the ChromeOS Camera App⁠⁠.

Previously, deleting a file from “My files” would instantly and permanently delete it. Now, it will go to a new “Trash” section. You’ll have 30 days to change your mind before it’s permanently deleted. Note: This new feature doesn’t support Play, Linux, or Windows file locations.

As of ChromeOS 107, you can save and close an entire Virtual Desk⁠⁠. Save your desk state—including app windows and layouts—whenever you want to switch gears or focus on a different task. When you’re ready to switch back, you can open your saved desk with a click.

ChromeOS 107 introduced new privacy features leveraging the Human Presence Sensor⁠⁠. The Human Presence Sensor will lock the screen when you leave—and alert you when another person is looking at your screen. Related features include “Keep Awake,” which prevents the screen from dimming when you’re present, and “Viewing Protection,” which alerts you when an additional person is detected.

ChromeOS 107 provides a variety of improvements to its accessibility settings⁠⁠, including more accurate search results, easier to understand feature descriptions, and modifications to the layout for increased discoverability.

Control your RGB keyboard across four defined zones with the Personalization Hub UI. When you click the Rainbow option, the colors will appear across four zones—rather than a per-key rainbow effect. Read more about using keyboard backlighting on supported devices: Use gaming features on your Chromebook⁠⁠.

Newly installed apps will no longer handle links clicked in the browser by default. Links clicked in the browser will now open in the browser, unless the “Opening supported links” setting is enabled within the Settings app.

Color and size settings now persist. Customize your pen while writing notes and your customization will persist into a new session. In the note library, your favorite pen settings—such as color or size—will carry into new notes.