How to Customize Your Chromebook

Jun. 10, 2024

One of the first things you can do on your shiny new Chromebook is customize it. ChromeOS has improved on many fronts in the past few years, and one of them is customization. Customizing your Chromebook can help you personalize it and make it feel truly yours. Here’s everything you can do to customize your Chromebook.

Change Wallpaper and Screensaver

Changing the wallpaper is the easiest and quickest customization you can do to your Chromebook. All Chromebooks come with various sets of wallpapers, including the ability to set your own and change them daily. Chromebook Plus laptops also come with AI wallpapers like Pixels and they’re known to work very well. Similarly, you can set a bunch of photo collages or sceneries as your screensaver.

ChromeOS, by default, comes with light mode enabled, and switching to dark mode can not only save you from the brightness but is a way to instantly customize your Chromebook. Google has also added Material You to ChromeOS and you can enable it from the same page.

The ChromeOS Taskbar is easily the feature we interact with the most, and there are a few customization options in the same. For starters, you can choose where it appears (On the left, bottom, or right), or set it to auto-hide to give you more screen estate to work with.

ChromeOS launcher has seen improvements in the last few major updates. There are a few customization options in it too like the ability to pin an app to the taskbar and sort apps.

Most people buy Chromebooks to do things like web surfing, handling documents in Google Suite, and consuming web content, and for that, you’ll find yourself extensively using Google Chrome. Hence, you can customize the Chrome browser to your liking.

ChromeOS has a lot of customization and featureflagshidden in the Flags section, one of which isrounded corners. The UI elements and themes on ChromeOS suit more when app windows are rounded. Here’s how to enable rounded windows on ChromeOS.

So these are some of the ways you can customize your Chromebook. Google keeps adding new customization features to ChromeOS, so we expect more customizations to arrive and will update them here. What are your thoughts on ChromeOS as an operating system? Do you think it has reached the level of Windows orLinuxyet? Let us know in the comments below.