Yesterday, Google made Chrome OS 86 official and rolled out quite a few new updates to the OS as they generally do every 6 weeks. For new Chrome OS users, this is one of the biggest perks of using a Chromebook. Instead of yearly, massive updates, we enjoy 6-week update cycles that still bring quite a few new features each time along with bug fixes and plenty of security updates, too.
The past few updates that have hit Chromebooks in the last few months have all rolled out like clockwork. The day they have been available, nearly all Chromebooks received the update. It has honestly been a thing of beauty compared to the pre-pandemic release cycles. Back then, it was nothing for Chrome OS to be delayed by days or weeks and to see devices a full version of Chrome OS behind for quite some time. The last 3 updates to Chrome OS felt like they broke those old bad habits, so we’ve become accustom to nearly all devices getting the update the minute it begins rolling out.
Quite a few Chromebooks left out
Unfortunately, with Chrome OS 86 there are quite a few Chromebooks currently left out of the loop for now. We’d fully expect this to change in the next few days, but as it stands right now, there is a decently-long list of Chromebooks that aren’t seeing the update. Probably the worst part of this news is the fact that many new, flagship devices like the Acer Spin 713 I’m typing this on right now are part of that exclusion list. From what we can tell, here are the devices that are late to the party at this point:
- Pixelbook Go
- HP Chromebook x360 14c
- HP Pro c640
- ASUS Chromebook Flip C436
- HP Elite c1030
- Acer Chromebook 712
- Acer Chromebook Spin 713
- Samsung Galaxy Chromebook
- Acer Chromebook 14 (CB3-532)
- ASUS Chromebook Flip C302
- HP Chromebook 11 G5 EE
- Positivo Chromebook C216B
- Mecer V2 Chromebook
- Edxis Education Chromebook (NL6D)
- CTL NL61 Chromebook
- Acer Chromebook 11 N7 (C731, C731T)
- HP Chromebook 11 G5
- HP Chromebook 11 G6 EE
- HP Chromebook 14 G5
- HP Chromebook x360 11 G1 EE
- ASUS Chromebook C202SA
- ASUS Chromebook C300SA / C301SA
- Multilaser Chromebook M11C
- Viglen Chromebook 360
- PCMerge Chromebook PCM-116T-432B
- Edugear CMT Chromebook
- CTL J5 Chromebook
- Prowise Chromebook Proline
- Haier Chromebook 11 C
If you are a user that has a device on this list, it is impossible for us to tell you exactly when you will receive the latest Chrome OS update. We’d expect that will come in a couple days, but we can’t say for sure. If you’d like to keep an eye on the progress of the Chrome OS 86 roll out, you can simply head over to cros.tech/table and hit CTRL+F and do a page search for 85. You’ll quickly see all the devices still on Chrome OS 85 stable and can figure out for yourself if you device has finally made the move. Fingers crossed that this doesn’t take long.
