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The newest Chrome OS replace will make your Chromebook really feel a bit of extra Apple-y, as a few of Chrome OS’s neat new capabilities depend on you having an Android telephone in tow. Google introduced at present that Chrome OS M103 is formally rolling out after being in beta for a couple of months. It contains options we’ve been ready on since Google teased it at CES, and one we’ve been ready on for greater than a 12 months.

When you get the replace, Chrome OS’s Telephone Hub will allow you to obtain photographs instantly off your Android gadget. This will make it simpler to switch pictures between gadgets with out importing them into the cloud. The characteristic already exists for Home windows 10/11 customers with Android gadgets, because the Microsoft-developed Telephone Hub allows you to do one thing comparable.

The M103 replace additionally introduces the power to share Wi-Fi credentials by way of Close by Share. Close by Share is akin to Apple’s AirDrop in that it allows you to share information, photographs, and music between Android and Chrome OS utilizing Wi-Fi Direct. With the M103 replace, you possibly can push Wi-Fi community credentials to a suitable Chromebook with a couple of faucets in your Android telephone.

To share Wi-Fi networks between Chrome OS and Android, you’ll have to begin the pairing course of in your smartphone. Within the Settings panel, faucet on Community & Web, choose Wi-Fi community, and faucet on the community you’re linked to. Faucet the Share icon to enter your gadget password and pop up the QR code. Under that, you’ll see a button with the label Close by. Faucet that to begin the connection along with your Chromebook. Your telephone will then whisk off the community identify and password and get your Chromebook logged on for you.

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Though not accessible till later this summer time, Google additionally supplied an replace for a characteristic harking back to the tap-to-set-up mechanism between gadgets just like the iPhone and Apple’s HomePod. Quick Pair is lastly on the best way (we’ve been ready for it since final Might), and it’ll make it so you possibly can join a pair of Bluetooth headphones by merely tapping them to your Chromebook. When it really works, you’ll see a pop-up notification asking if you wish to pair, the identical approach you’d get a pop-up on the iPhone asking if you wish to join a pair of AirPods. It’s synergy introduced on by the magic of Bluetooth LE.

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Though not fully new to Chrome OS, Google’s Screencast will probably be formally rolling out to everybody on this newest replace. Screencast allows you to document, trim, and share transcribed movies. It additionally allows you to write on the display screen as for those who have been conducting a presentation, after which it uploads to Google Drive for safe-keeping.

The replace must be rolling out to Chromebooks now. You possibly can examine to see in case your gadget’s been up to date underneath the About Chrome OS possibility.