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How to Hide Recent Photos on Chromebook

By

Dinsan

Updated

Phone Hub’s Recent Photos feature displays recent photos from your phone on your Chromebook. In this article, I will show you how to disable this feature.

Recent Photos on Chromebook Desktop
Recent Photos on Chromebook Desktop

Disable Recent Photos on Chromebook

One way to disable recent photos is to turn off Phone Hub completely. However, if you want to use other features of Phone Hub and only hide recent photos, complete the following steps:

  1. Open the Settings app. Chrome OS Settings App
  2. Click Connected Devices.Connected Devices - Chromebook
  3. Select your phone from the list.Connected Phone - Phonehub
  4. Click and disable the Recent photos toggle.Disable Recent Photos

Recent photos from your phone will no longer be visible on your Chromebook’s Phone Hub.

I hope you found this tutorial useful. Post your questions in the comments form and I will get back to you with an answer.

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Dinsan

Dinsan Francis is the founder of Chrome Story, which he started in 2009 — the same year Google launched Chrome. He has covered the Chrome browser and Chromebook ecosystem for over 15 years and has used Chromebooks as his primary computing device since 2010. He’s always on the bleeding edge, running the Canary build of both Chrome and ChromeOS as daily drivers.

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