How to Enable and Disable Your Chromebook’s Touchscreen
Don’t worry, it won’t drain the battery
Is your Chromebook’s touchscreen functionality failing or malfunctioning? Do your kids often toy with your Chromebook’s touchscreen and mess up files and system settings?Turning off your touchscreencould fix these issues.
This tutorial highlights the steps to disable and enable the touchscreen functionality on Chromebooks. Ensure you have an alternate input device—touchpad or external mouse—before disabling your Chromebook’s touchscreen.
How to Disable Your Chromebook’s Touchscreen
There’s no option to disable your Chromebook’s touchscreen in the ChromeOS settings menu. To turn off touch input in ChromeOS, you must first enable the Chrome Flag for debugging keyboard shortcuts.
Enabling the “Debugging Keyboard Shortcuts” flag allows you to enable and disable your Chromebook’s touchscreen and touchpad.
Alternatively, press theSearch key, pastechrome://flags/#ash-debug-shortcutsin the search bar, and pressEnter.
Your Chromebook’s touchscreen should no longer respond to finger taps or touches—even in tablet mode. If your Chromebook works with a stylus, disabling the touchscreen also turns off stylus input.
Pro Tip:PressSearch+Shift+Ptodisable your Chromebook’s touchpad or trackpad.
Chrome Flags are experimental and unstable featuresin beta testing phases. Turning on the “Debugging Keyboard Shortcuts” flag may or may not disable your Chromebook’s touchscreen. Also, enabling the flag could cause your Chromebook to malfunction.
How to Re-Enable Your Chromebook’s Touchscreen
You can re-enable your Chromebook’s touchscreen by pressingShift+Search+Ton your keyboard.
Restart your Chromebookand press the key combination again if your screen doesn’t detect touch input.
ChromeOS also re-enables your Chromebook’s touchscreen when you disable the “Debugging Keyboard Shortcuts” flag in Google Chrome.
Control Your Chromebook’s Touch Input
Contrary to popular belief, disabling your Chromebook’s touchscreen won’t reduce battery drain. The touch digitizer that powers your Chromebook’s touchscreen remains operational even if you disable the touchscreen functionality.
Update and reboot your Chromebook if you can’t enable or disable your touchscreen. Contact yourChromebook manufactureror visit a computer repair shop if you have trouble enabling or disabling your touchscreen.
Sodiq has written thousands of tutorials, guides, and explainers over the past 4 years to help people solve problems with Android, iOS, Mac, and Windows devices. He also enjoys reviewing consumer tech products (smartphones, smart home devices, accessories, etc.) and binge-watching comedy series in his spare time.Read Sodiq’s Full Bio
Welcome to Help Desk Geek- a blog full of tech tips from trusted tech experts. We have thousands of articles and guides to help you troubleshoot any issue. Our articles have been read over 150 million times since we launched in 2008.
HomeAbout UsEditorial StandardsContact UsTerms of Use
Copyright © 2008-2024 Help Desk Geek.com, LLC All Rights Reserved
