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How to Switch Your Chromebook to Beta Channel

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If you are eager to test upcoming Chromebook features, you can switch your Chromebook to the Beta channel of Chrome OS. In this article, I will show you how to change the release channel of your Chromebook.

Chrome OS, the operating system used on your Chromebook has a few release channels. These release channels are called Stable, Beta, Dev, and Canary. By default, your Chromebook uses the Stable channel. This is the recommended version of Chrome OS everyone should be using.

Switching to the Beta Channel

To switch your Chromebook to the Beta channel of Chrome OS:

Open the Settings app on your Chromebook.
Click About ChromeOS.
Now click Additional Details.
Click the Change channel button.
Click the radio button to select the new channel.

Your Chromebook will now download the selected version of Chrome OS. The process might include a complete reset of your Chromebook.

Do you have any questions on changing the release channel on your Chromebook? Ask me in the comments section below.

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Dinsan

Digital Minimalist & Content Developer. He started using Google Chrome the day it was released. These days he is always on the bleeding edge, using the Canary build of both Chrome and Chrome OS as daily drivers. You’ll see him writing about upcoming Chrome features along with simple guides to get things done on Chrome.

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7 responses to “How to Switch Your Chromebook to Beta Channel”

Doug

January 7, 2011

How safe is the Development Channel for Chrome OS? I realize it’s not as stable as the Beta… but… I agreed to use this netbook as my main computer as per the agreement with Google…

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1. chrome story
  
  January 7, 2011
  
  I’m using it for a long time now, never had any big troubles, 🙂 but, again, we don’t how and when things break 😀
  
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  1. Doug
    
    January 7, 2011
    
    Sweet, thanks. I just changed over. No updates available. lol. Well, hopefully I don’t brick it 🙂
    
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ross

April 20, 2011

“We Trust you have received the usual lecture from the local System Administrator. It usually boils down to these three things:

#1) Respect the privacy of others.

#2) Think before you type.

#3) With great power comes great responsibility.”

Is the prompt from sudo.

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gideon

June 22, 2022

the reset is a giant PITA….e.g flags and some extensions don’t make the reset cut

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Abel

May 2, 2023

when you switch to beta not dev does it still need to reset to factory settings?

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1. Dinsan
  
  May 2, 2023
  
  When you move from stable to beta, you may not need to reset. However, you might have to reset when you go back.
  
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