This keeps your Chromebook looking 'fresh,' and you might come across a picture or two that you forgot about completely. Now, this is no longer a problem, and you can even go so far as to use a custom 'Wallpapers' album to cycle through various images on a daily basis. But before ChromeOS 102, if you wanted to do so, you would have needed to manually download the image, and then set it within the Settings app on your Chromebook. Easily personalize your ChromebookĪs we alluded to earlier, being able to customize and personalize the wallpaper on the best Chromebooks is nothing new. Of course, you can also create a new Google Photos album if you want something that looks a bit different from the photos that show up on your Nest Hub or other smart displays.

All the while, letting you see your favorite pictures from a specific Google Photos album cycle through. Google hasn't hinted on a possible Windows release for the screensaver app.After setting up the screensaver, this will show different bits of information including the date, time, and current weather conditions.

This is what Google TV devices call the screen saver. During the Chromecast’s initial setup process, you’ll be asked to choose an Ambient Mode. If you’d like to use your TV as a giant photo frame, we’ll show you how to set this up. The Featured Photos screensaver app will also work for those who have a multiple-monitor setup, displaying one photo for each monitor, essentially turning one's workstation into a miniature gallery instead of displaying bland, soulless looping screensavers. Devices such as the Chromecast with Google TV can display a Google Photos slideshow as the screen saver. For those who want to further increase their chance of being featured, they may participate in Google's Create Program. A Chance To Get Your Photos Featuredįor budding photographers who want their body of work featured as a screensaver, Inala encourages them to continue sharing their photos on Google+ publicly. Google's Wallpapers app for Android will now also let users cycle through same set of photos on a user's lock or home screen. Previously, these screensavers were only available on Google's Pixel phones, Chromecast and Google Fiber devices, but the company is also rolling it out to other Android devices, too. In an attempt to bolster privacy, the screensaver app will only ruffle through publicly shared high-res photos that don't depict people, so users will likely be treated to a striking gallery comprised mostly of landscapes, cityscapes, nature photography, objects or anything without humans in them. To give due credit to the talented people behind the camera, Google will include the artist's Google+ profile so users can hunt them down and peruse their body of work. 'e're pleased to be able to make these beautiful photos by our members even more accessible by bringing them to your computers and phones,' wrote Neil Inala, a product manager for Google+.

Google featured photo screen saver