Google has begun testing new options resembling autocorrect, improved file search, and even adaptive charging throughout the newest model of Chrome OS, that means these options will arrive on the steady variations of Chromebooks quickly.

The new options are a part of Chrome OS M116, accessible now for download and testing.

The new options embrace:

Autocorrect: Autocorrect is now enabled by default for these apps that use English as a major language, routinely fixing typos, spelling, and different errors. Grammar, nevertheless, is just not affected.

Improved search throughout the Files app: You can now search throughout each your native information in addition to Google Drive on the similar time.

Image to textual content: Chrome OS is incorporating optical character recognition, to assist display screen readers parse websites that embed textual content inside photographs, resembling for directions. Google and Chrome OS will use AI to rework these photographs into readable textual content. Image to textual content will probably be accessible on the Chrome browser “in the coming months,” Google mentioned. You’ll have to go to chrome://flags after which allow flag: #pdf-ocr

An improved setup wizard: Google is promising that an improved setup wizard will make it even simpler for brand new customers to get arrange, with extra system customization choices that embrace touchpad scroll path and show dimension. Google says that the brand new setup wizard is now “more streamlined and thorough.”

RGB control: If your Chromebook has an RGB keyboard, now you can use Chrome OS to use completely different colours to completely different zones — or standardize on a single background shade. This will apply to the Ideapad Gaming Chromebook, the HP Dragonfly Pro Chromebook, the Acer Chromebook 516 GE, and the Asus Chromebook Vibe CX34 Flip. You’ll have to go to: chrome://flags and allow flag: #multi-zone-rgb-keyboard

Adaptive charging: Adptive charging will use AI to cost a Chromebook to 80 p.c, then full the charging to one hundred pc, based mostly upon the anticipated time when a consumer will disconnect the system from the charging twine — the objective is to match these two occasions as carefully as doable. To allow it, you’ll have to go to Settings > Device > Power.

Word, Excel, and PowerLevel: You’ll be capable to open and edit Word, PowerLevel, and Excel information on a Chromebook and entry OneDrive to load and edit these information in Microsoft 365. To use these Office information with Office 365, your Chromebook will obtain the Microsoft OneDrive app and join it to the Chrome OS Files app.