How To Set A Wallpaper From Google Images On Android

Chrome OS will shortly accept a way to fix your wallpaper to one of your favorite images or albums from Google Photos.

Update: This feature is now bachelor in the latest Chrome Os Canary builds, allowing us to encounter Google Photos integration in action.

Beyond Pixel phones, Chromecasts, and Nest smart displays, Google has fabricated it all too easy to set your wallpaper to your favorite shot from Google Photos or run a slideshow from an anthology. Meanwhile, to employ something from Google Photos equally a wallpaper on Chrome Os today, you need to download the paradigm and manually set it as your background. There also isn't an option to rotate through a local folder of images.

Co-ordinate to a newly posted code change, Chrome Bone's Wallpapers app is set up to go a full integration with Google Photos. Once complete, Google Photos will appear amidst the "collections" bachelor in the Wallpapers app, alongside options like "Dessert fourth dimension," "Cityscapes," and "Local images."

This CL adds the feature flag to gate Google Photos integration in the wallpaper app. It uses the flag to reserve a new tile in the existing <collections-grid> that volition serve as the entry point for the new integration. Note that the new tile will be in a perpetual loading for the time beingness.

Notably, the Google Photos choice is only being made available for the upcoming redesign of the Chrome Os Wallpapers app. In that redesign, which start appeared in January, the current list-based design is switched out for a grid layout with each category appearing in a tile. To get that redesign — currently but available on non-stable versions of Chrome Os — you lot need to employ a flag in chrome://flags.

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Chrome OS Wallpapers app redesign with tile layout

Chrome OS will soon let you set your wallpaper from Google Photos [Update: Enabled]

Once the the integration goes live, "Google Photos" will be available in the second slot. It's non even so clear what options will be bachelor for using your Google Photos, such every bit picking a specific album to wheel through or if automatic cycling volition be offered at all. Things volition become more clear as the feature is gradually adult.

Update 3/9/22: Well-nigh five months after first appearing in code, Chrome Bone'due south Google Photos wallpaper integration has finally gone live in the latest version of Canary. Like most pre-release features, you lot'll need to enable a new flag in chrome://flags.

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Allows users to select their wallpaper from Google Photos

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Once enabled, equally we outlined above, the Chrome Bone Wallpapers app will exist updated to take a new option in the second slot, titled "Google Photos." It's worth noting that depending on your connection speed and how many photos you have saved in your account, this option may accept a infinitesimal or two to announced.

Clicking it, you'll exist brought to a tiled gallery of essentially every photo you've ever saved to Google Photos, organized by date. With one click, whatsoever of these photos tin instantly be made into your newest wallpaper.

Unfortunately, at that place's no current indication of being able to select an anthology to automatically cycle through, nor is there an easy fashion to search for a item photograph you're hoping to use. Because Chrome OS's screensaver options allow you lot to select an album, information technology's possible this shortcoming is only temporary while the Wallpapers integration is in development.

As the feature flag is only merely now offset to appear in Canary, we likely won't run into this wallpaper enhancement launch until Chrome OS version 101 or 102, set to arrive in April and May, respectively.