The whole point of cloud-based devices like Chromebooks is to give you a window to the web that’s as clean and easy to use as possible. That means ChromeOS doesn’t have the tons of software and settings options that you’ll find in Windows or macOS. However, it does still offer a number of settings that you can tweak to make it work better for you.
10 Ways to Personalize Your Chromebook
These tweaks include everything from making ChromeOS more fun with themes to increasing your productivity by putting your most-used apps at your fingertips. Spend some time on these tweaks, and you’ll end up with a Chromebook that feels a lot more like you.
A desktop wallpaper is perhaps the most obvious way to personalize your computer. Changing your wallpaper in ChromeOS isn’t difficult: click the touchpad with two fingers while the cursor is over an empty area of the desktop, then choose Set wallpaper and style from the menu that appears.
On the next screen, you can customize your ChromeOS wallpaper and screensaver in a few different ways. For the background, for example, you can choose a new image from your Google Drive or go with a solid color. And if you're using a Chromebook Plus laptop, you can also use generative AI to create something completely new.
