 Hello everyone, this is Amit Dan of amitdan.com Today I will have another episode of Chromebook Tips and Tricks video and I will talk about how to connect your Chromebook to your phone. If this is your first time here or a repeat visit, thank you for your support. On this channel I am always trying new and different ideas. If that is something you are interested in, please visit for more. If you are only interested in tutorial videos, there will be links in the description box below. Chromebook released in the latest Chrome OS 88 version, a feature that lets you connect your Chromebook to your Android phone, which I have it right here on my right. I haven't connected my Chromebook with my phone before and today I am going to go through the process for the first time and I am going to show you how you can do that and how you can connect your Chromebook to your Android phone. So my Chromebook I have is right here and then my Pixel 4A 5G phone I have is right here on my right, which you are going to see very shortly and let's connect the Chromebook. So the first thing, if you haven't connected yet, you might get the connection or phone hub notification right here, which I have it. So for example, let me just bring this little closer. If I click here, then you can see that it's starting asking you to connect your phone with your Chromebook. So you may or may not have this icon right here. So if you do not see your phone hub on the tray right here, then click on settings by going to clicking on the clock sign right here and then here you are going to click on the whole button, which is right here and then here you are going to go to connected devices and then here you can see that connect your Android phone and setup. So what I am going to do, let me just click on here setup and see what happens. So connect to your phone. So it says that you can text from your phone, share your internet connection, reply to conversation, notification and unlock your Chromebook with your phone. So you can do all these. And looks like it already detected my phone, which is Google Pixel 4 A5G. So it's asking to select a device and if you have more than one device, then it's going to just select everyone. Then you have to accept the terms and conditions, so which you are going to click on right here and then it's asking to enter the password. So you're just going to enter the password. Okay, so now it says all set, go to settings to see your options for better together. So let's go to settings now and then here you can see that instant tethering is on, smart lock is on and phone hub is on. So notification, view notifications from your chat apps on your Chromebook. So you can turn this on if you'd like and recent Chrome tabs. You can see recent Chrome tabs from your phone and looks like that's all we have and then you have to send and receive text messages from your Chromebook. So you can set that up too. So at this point, I'm not going to turn on notification from the chat apps because I don't use it that much. So I'm just going to keep everything here and then let me just minimize that and I'm going to just open the phone hub right now and let's see what happens here. Okay, so what's happening here that I got a message on my phone that your Google Pixel 4, Pixel 4, a 5G and Chromebook will connect automatically. So I'm getting a message here and let me just, you know, click on here and then it just like, you know, showing that, you know, they have been connected and let me just minimize that. And here, actually, I don't see any other options. So what I'm going to do, let me just check your connection. So it's asking you to turn on Bluetooth on both your Chromebook and both your, you know, phone. So let's, you know, click on the, turn on the Bluetooth, which is right here. And then I'm going to just turn on Bluetooth on my Pixel phone as well and see what's happened here. Okay, so I can see that Pixel 4, a 5G connected. So let me just, you know, so it looks like now it's asking you to connect to Bluetooth and please confirm that PASCII is shown on your Pixel 4, a 5G. So here you have to input those numbers on Pixel and I'm going to go to Pixel right here and you can see that it's giving you pair and connect. So the pairing code is 279963 and I'm going to just click on it and then pair and I'm just going to set it aside and authentication failed. We're connecting to Pixel 4, a 5G, okay. So that I'm not sure why it failed. Let's try again. Okay, sit up, get started. Okay, so here on my phone, I got a message that turn on notification, use pattern which is ID password. So let's just, you know, enter the password and it says that turn on Google Play services which is turn on and then looks like this is done. And here on the Chromebook, you can see that notification turned on. Now you can receive notification from your phone on your Chromebook and dismissing notification on your Chromebook but also dismiss them on your phone. So make sure your phone is nearby, it has Bluetooth and Wi-Fi on. So let's click on done and I'm going to just, you know, get rid of the screen and I'm going to just go back to phone hub again and let's see if you can see the notification. So here you can see that hotspot is off, silence phone is off, locate phone is off so I can turn this off if I would like. And here I can see some messages from my Chrome tab which is actually on my phone. So that looks like working and then locate phone. So let me just, you know, click this on and you can see that it's actually ringing on my phone. So for sure this is working and I'm going to just, you know, close that and enable hotspot in our hotspot which is off. Let me just, you know, turn it off and see what happens. Okay so this is just actually, you know, connecting your or tethering Chromebook with your phone and have the message notification here provide data connection but I don't need that so I'm just going to leave it as is and I'm going to just, you know, turn it off again because I'm using Wi-Fi at home. So basically it looks like that's all we have here. So if I had turned on the message or notification for text then definitely I would have seen more stuff here but I didn't turn that on and let me just go back to setting so basically you're looking at the same thing. So it looks like that's all there is. I would just like to mention quickly that Windows or Microsoft has a similar app which called your phone or, you know, my phone and you can actually access your phone from that app too and so this is another option you can access on your phone from Chromebook but the notifications and the features is offering. I kind of don't like it a lot. I don't see they are offering or giving you lots of features and options. You know, they're giving you something but it's not a lot and I find it kind of not that user friendly because it just kept, you know, asking to enter passwords and like, you know, verify again and again and even at one point it showed, you know, connection field although it got connected. Another thing I didn't like is that the Bluetooth. So you have to, you know, keep on Bluetooth all the time which I don't like. I try not to keep turn on Bluetooth and so at the end I'm not going to be using this feature but, you know, I just wanted to show you. I like Windows app a lot better than Chromebook where you don't need to turn on or keep Bluetooth on all the time and it gives you a lot more access and like, you know, more user friendly than the Chromebook phone hub. So overall this is okay but, you know, it's not that great and I just wanted to show you how to connect and how it works. So thank you for watching this video. You see there will be more videos coming up so I'll see you shortly. Thank you.