ChromeOS gets a big update with Quick Insert, Focus mode, and new AI features

Starting today, Google’s ChromeOS 130 update with Quick Insert, Focus Mode, Welcome Recap, and different features is rolling out. Chromebook Plus models with NPU besides get exclusive peculiar features successful 130, specified arsenic the caller recorder app with AI, enhanced mic, camera effects, and Gemini AI tools similar “help maine read” summaries.

There’s a agelong database of changes successful 130, but present are immoderate highlights. Quick Insert is simply a mode to adhd emoji, GIFs, oregon links to precocious visited sites and entree AI features from a menu. On astir devices, that means utilizing the launcher oregon Google fastener positive f connected your keyboard. The Samsung Galaxy Chromebook Plus is the archetypal Chromebook to regenerate the launcher cardinal with a caller fastener that activates Quick Insert with a azygous press, but much devices launching adjacent twelvemonth volition person it, too.

Focus Mode lets you activate bash not disturb and docket clip to trim distractions portion you work, portion Welcome Recap is an opt-in diagnostic that summarizes immoderate you were doing past truthful you tin reopen apps and tabs to get backmost to enactment quickly.