Translate captioned conversations live with Live Translate

ChromeOS 129 Release Notes
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Live translate captionable content on Chromebook Plus, start Select-to-Speak from keyboard shortcuts, and gain visibility into your connected peripherals. ChromeOS 129 includes quality of life improvements such as new settings for keyboard brightness controls and display brightness controls.

Translate captioned conversations live with Live Translate
Translate captionable content from Live Captions into a language of your choice on Chromebook Plus devices⁠. With Live Translate, you can translate captions into another language as long as your conversation supports Live Captions. Live Translate will work with conference calls, videos, and YouTube.

Peripheral Welcome experience
Connect, configure, and find companion apps for your peripherals. Peripheral Welcome delivers a high-quality Welcome Experience by letting you know that your peripheral is successfully connected and inviting you to configure and make the most out of it.

Keyboard shortcut for Select-to-Speak
Turn on Select-to-Speak with the Select-to-Speak keyboard shortcut (Search + s). You no longer need to enable it in Settings first. A dialog displays confirming that you want to turn on select to speak the first time you press the keyboard shortcut.

Control your keyboard brightness controls from Settings
Easily adjust keyboard brightness and control the ambient light sensor directly from the Settings app on your Chromebook. This new feature lets you set your keyboard brightness to the perfect level and turn the ambient light sensor on or off as needed.

Control display brightness controls from Settings
Easily adjust your Chromebook’s display brightness and control the ambient light sensor directly from the Settings app. This new feature lets you set your screen brightness to the perfect level and turn the ambient light sensor on or off as needed in the Settings app.

Pin and unpin icons to customize your Toolbar
You can now pin and unpin icons to your toolbar via a new side panel, for fast access. This feature will roll out gradually, starting with Chrome 129.

Google Password Manager Passkey usage on ChromeOS
Save your passkeys to Google Password Manager and use them across devices and platforms. Until ChromeOS 129, passkeys have been slightly more difficult to use across all devices—making it harder to use passkeys to improve user security.

Also released in ChromeOS 129
Battery icon updates, PIN as an authentication factor, and a new wallpaper collection to celebrate Educators.

Battery Icon updates
An update to the battery icon ensures that the battery state no longer covers the battery level. Now you can easily see how much battery you have left.

PIN as an authentication factor
This launch enables PIN as an authentication factor in all authentication surfaces across ChromeOS.

Educators Appreciation wallpaper
In ChromeOS 129, we have added a new wallpaper collection to celebrate and share our gratitude and support to educators around the world.

Chrome Enterprise Premium for file transfers on Managed Guest Sessions
Organizations can extend Chrome Enterprise Premium⁠’s powerful scanning and content and context-based protection to local files on ChromeOS on Managed Guest Sessions. For example, a misplaced file containing Social Security numbers is instantly blocked when a user attempts to copy it to an external drive, safeguarding this confidential information.

Screenshot protections for Chrome Enterprise admins
Screenshot protections allow Admins to prevent users from taking screenshots or screen sharing specific web pages considered to contain sensitive data. This feature is available to Chrome Enterprise Premium⁠ users only. This feature can be controlled via the same EnterpriseRealTimeUrlCheckMode⁠ Chrome Enterprise policy that enables all real-time URL lookups.

Managed accounts no longer synced as secondary accounts on Android
Starting from ChromeOS version 129, we enhance the data security for Android on ChromeOS. Enterprise accounts that are added as secondary accounts in-session will no longer automatically be added to the Android on ChromeOS environment. This change does not affect consumer accounts, education accounts, or accounts that were previously added.

Automatic reload of sign-in screen
Starting from version 129, ChromeOS optimizes the support of 3P identity provider based logins. In the most common scenario, administrators show a permanent 3P identity provider login on the sign in screen. Many identity providers time out after a specific cadence, for example, 15 mins, leading to errors for the user. The new DeviceAuthenticationFlowAutoReloadInterval⁠ policy allows for a repeated refresh of 3P identity providers on the login screen, avoids timeouts, and therefore significantly increases the reliability of 3P identity provider logins.

CSE Workspace file types now supported in Google Drive
Client side encryption (CSE) is a Google Workspace and Drive feature that allows customers and users to encrypt files with customer provided keys so that data is encrypted and never stored on our servers in the clear. This launch provides basic CSE support in the Files app on ChromeOS. This includes making CSE files visible, opening CSE files in the browser and flagging non Google Workspace CSE files as unsupported.