ChromeOS 128 adds Snap Groups, allowing users to pair two windows at once. Other changes include OCR support for the Camera app and Audio Gain Control by default.
Google is rolling out ChromeOS 128 to all supported Chromebooks, introducing new features and several quality-of-life changes.
One of the more notable updates is Snap Groups, which behaves very similarly to Snap Layouts on Windows 11. It lets users pair two separate windows on ChromeOS together for a split-screen view. These windows can be individually resized, moved together as a group, or split apart at any time.
Second, Optical Character Recognition (OCR) is being implemented into the Camera app. With OCR, Chromebooks can „see“ text from a piece of paper in front of the lens. The feature also supports searching for words in images, reading documents out loud, and more. Everything in OCR is made possible through the power of machine learning.
The company states OCR can read pages in horizontal and vertical orientations, so no need to flip papers around.
