The camera app on Chrome OS has remained largely unchanged since Google first brought Chromebooks to the market in 2011. Although handy in a pinch, its stagnant development is obvious by the lack of useful features. It received video recording only three years ago and recently got a native QR code scanner. While it has improved over the years, its implementation feels too basic to be especially practical. That may soon change, as Google is working to deliver advanced controls to the camera app on Chrome OS.
Robby Payne from ChromeUnboxed recently unearthed "Expert Mode" on the Chromium Gerrit. It looks to add deeper manual control and other quality-of-life improvements. While there isn't a Chrome flag yet, we activated it in the latest Canary channel—with some effort. Once enabled, a metadata overlay and a new Expert Mode menu will show up in the Chrome OS camera app. Here's an in-depth look at the photography improvements coming to Chromebooks soon.
