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Chromebooks will soon warn you when someone else is watching your screen

Google seems to be working on a new Chrome OS feature that will warn you when a snooper is looking over your shoulder.

New feature in Chrome Canary lets you add passwords manually

Reddit user u/Leopeva64-2 spotted a new feature in the latest Chrome Canary 98.0.4725.0 that lets you enable a flag to add passwords manually. It's a pretty straightforward implementation.

You ll soon be able to use your Android phone apps on your Chromebook

Google could soon add a new Chrome OS feature that will let you temporarily use apps from your phone on your Chromebook.

You ll soon be able to automatically set your Chromebook s wallpaper with Google Photos – Phandroid

Although its the most basic "customization" option that we have, setting your wallpaper can make you feel like you have a brand new device. Add in the integration with Google Photos for things like the Pixel or Nest Hub, and you can change things up on a regular basis. Curiously, this integration with Google Photos has been absent on Chrome OS and some of the best Chromebooks. Thanks to some eagle eyes over at 9to5Google, this could be changing soon. A new flag in the Chromium Gerrit adds the ability to integrate Google Photos into the wallpaper application. Here's what the description says: This CL adds the feature flag to gate Google Photos integration in the wallpaper app. It uses the flag to reserve a new tile in the existing that will serve as the entry point for the new integration. Note that the new tile will be in a perpetual loading for the time being. After activated and made available, this flag will show Google Photos as "collections" within the app

Google could be working on a way for you to take phone calls on your Chromebook

Considering how many people use a Chromebook and Android phone at the same time, it's a bit surprising that its taken Google this long to truly flesh out the Phone Hub feature. According to ChromeUnboxed, a new Chromium Gerrit has been committed, revealing that Google is working on letting you take phone calls on your Chromebook. We have been seeing mentions of an unannounced feature code named "Eche", which essentially allows you to mirror your phone on your Chromebook. In theory, this would work similar to what we see when using the Your Phone app on Windows. And just like certain features being limited to Samsung phones, Eche would at least start out as a Pixel exclusive. The Chromium Gerrit adds a flag to "enable the Incoming/Ongoing call notification feature". Which sounds more like allowing users to make and receive phone calls directly from the Chromebook. But even with more "always-connected" Chromebooks becoming available, it wouldn't ma

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