As we are patiently waiting for the Chromebook Pixel’s successor dubbed “Eve” today we are very pleased to share with you some great news: the search engine giant is hot in the works bringing SMS notifications to Chrome OS.According to ChromeUnboxed, an email from one of their avid readers popped in their inbox yesterday containing a very interesting screenshot taken using a Samsung Chromebook Plus. It was a screenshot taken from the Settings tab that displayed a brand new option labeled “SMS connect” with the following description “Get notifications for new text messages on your Chromebook”.

We can not express our enthusiasm enough at that moment, as we realized this is actually something really big as I’m sure all of us we’ve been waiting for such a feature since the fist days of Chrome OS.

Although we could not find the feature even after switching all our Chromebooks from beta mode to developer mode in the Setting tab, a simple search in chrome://flags connected devices prompted us with the following result : “Enable multidevice features Chrome OS – Enables UI for controlling multidevice features. #multidevice” . We proceeded enabling the flag and there it was, present in our Setting page too. Our enthusiasm was a little put down though when we discovered that the feature is currently not working at all and the only thing you can do at the moment with it is to play with the little blue switch you can see above (it is just a placeholder).

Leaving the jokes aside, we are really happy to see that Google is working towards a SMS notification delivery system for Chrome OS (great news actually). We really hope to see it nicely implemented and working in a future OS update.

As we wait, we plan to update you soon as we find out more details regarding all the questions that still remain without an answer at this time. We are curious to find out how will Google chose to fetch the SMS from our mobile phones then deliver the notifications to our Chromebooks. The first thing that comes to our mind is the Google Assistant that is also heading to Chrome OS. We’ll let you know as soon as we find out more.