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With one click, any of these photos can instantly be made into your newest wallpaper. Once enabled, as we outlined above, the Chrome OS Wallpapers app will be updated to have a new option in the second slot, titled “Google Photos.” It’s worth noting that depending on your connection speed and how many photos you have saved in your account, this option may take a minute or two to appear.Ĭlicking it, you’ll be brought to a tiled gallery of essentially every photo you’ve ever saved to Google Photos, organized by date.

Like most pre-release features, you’ll need to enable a new flag in chrome://flags.Įnable Google Photos wallpaper integrationĪllows users to select their wallpaper from Google Photos
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Update 3/9/22: Nearly five months after first appearing in code, Chrome OS’s Google Photos wallpaper integration has finally gone live in the latest version of Canary. Things will become more clear as the feature is gradually developed. It’s not yet clear what options will be available for using your Google Photos, such as picking a specific album to cycle through or if automatic cycling will be offered at all. Once the the integration goes live, “Google Photos” will be available in the second slot. To get that redesign - currently only available on non-stable versions of Chrome OS - you need to use a flag in chrome://flags.Įnables the wallpaper picker in ChromeOS Settings - Chrome OS In that redesign, which first appeared in January, the current list-based design is switched out for a grid layout with each category appearing in a tile.

Notably, the Google Photos option is only being made available for the upcoming redesign of the Chrome OS Wallpapers app. Note that the new tile will be in a perpetual loading for the time being. It uses the flag to reserve a new tile in the existing that will serve as the entry point for the new integration. This CL adds the feature flag to gate Google Photos integration in the wallpaper app. Once complete, Google Photos will appear among the “collections” available in the Wallpapers app, alongside options like “Dessert time,” “Cityscapes,” and “Local images.”
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There also isn’t an option to rotate through a local folder of images.Īccording to a newly posted code change, Chrome OS’s Wallpapers app is set to get a full integration with Google Photos.
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Meanwhile, to use something from Google Photos as a wallpaper on Chrome OS today, you need to download the image and manually set it as your background. Update: This feature is now available in the latest Chrome OS Canary builds, allowing us to see Google Photos integration in action.Īcross Pixel phones, Chromecasts, and Nest smart displays, Google has made it all too easy to set your wallpaper to your favorite shot from Google Photos or run a slideshow from an album. Chrome OS will soon have a way to set your wallpaper to one of your favorite images or albums from Google Photos.
