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‘Better Together’ will put your Android and Chrome OS devices in co-op mode
July 24, 2025
Perhaps as early as next week,Googlewill unveil a new service called “Better Together” that will give your Android device and yourChrome OS devicethe power to work as a team.
Little is known for sure about Better Together as of now, butMishaal RahmanfromXDA Developerssent out a series of tweets giving the basic gist of the service as he could glean from publicly-available Chromium commits.
According to Rahman, the Better Together service will keep your phone and Chromebook talking to each other and thus enable new functionality between the two devices. Some examples include:
If these features sound familiar, that’s because folks in the Apple ecosystem have had them for years – all three example features are currently available to people who have an iPhone and a computer running macOS.
In fact, the Instant Tethering feature is also already available to owners of theGoogle Pixel 2and theGoogle Pixelbook.
It’s not clear what devices will be compatible with this Better Together service. It seems unlikely that these features would work across the gamut of Android phones and Chromebooks, instead only working on select products. We’ll have to wait and see what happens in the coming weeks!
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