List of Essential Services

Data processor mode is currently only available for users on managed ChromeOS devices in these countries.

Service name	Chrome browser	ChromeOS	Description
Accessibility—Image Annotation	✔	✔	Image Annotation allows visually-impaired users to read text in images.
Accessibility—Speech-to-Text	✔	✔	Speech-to-Text converts speech into text.
Accessibility—Text-to-Speech	✔	✔	Text-to-Speech converts text into natural-sounding speech.
Application Platform Metrics		✔	Application Platform Metrics measures ChromeOS app usage, and is tied to a pseudonymous identifier.
Autofill (excluding payment information)	✔		Autofill helps users fill out forms automatically with saved info, like your addresses. When you enter info in a new form online, Chrome might ask you if you’d like Chrome to save it.
Calculator		✔	The Calculator app provides users with simple calculation functions on ChromeOS devices.
Camera app		✔	A built-in camera app to provide high-quality camera experiences across the ChromeOS ecosystem.
Canvas app		✔	A built-in drawing app for Chromebooks that syncs drawings to a user’s Google Account, so that they can be accessed from different devices.
Cast Moderator	✔	✔	Google cast moderator is a casting solution built specifically for Chrome users in the classroom. As an admin, you can set up a cast moderator for your school to allow teachers and students to share their screen wirelessly to a central display, using a secure access code.
Chrome Sync	✔		Chrome Sync saves a user’s bookmarks, history, passwords and other settings to their Google Account, so that they can easily log in to other devices without needing to recalibrate the browser from scratch.
Chrome Update	✔		Update Service Chrome Update ensures that the latest version of Chrome is distributed, with the latest security updates and protections.
Chrome Variations	✔		Update Service Chrome Variations is the framework used to roll out or roll back individual Chrome features, and to ensure they’re working as intended.
Chromebook Recovery Utility		✔	Chromebook Recovery Utility is a Chrome extension that lets users burn a recovery image onto a recovery device (e.g. USB drive, SD card) with which they can recover a ChromeOS device in recovery mode.
Crash Reports	✔	✔	Crash Reports are used by Google to identify and prioritize fixes for Chrome.
Cursive app		✔	A built-in notebook app for Chromebooks that syncs notes to a user’s Google Account, so that they can be accessed from different devices.
Enrollment/Device Verification		✔	Enterprise Enrollment is a process that marks a device as belonging to a particular organization, thereby enabling the setting of device policies by IT admins in the Google Admin console.
Files app		✔	A built-in file app for Chromebooks to provide an entry point for other apps, such as gallery, audio player, and the video players.
Google Drive Syncing		✔	Google Drive Syncing is the process of downloading files from the cloud and uploading files to the cloud from a device’s hard drive. After syncing, the files on a device match those in the cloud, to allow easy and convenient storage, access, and editing.
Kiosk Mode		✔	Kiosk Mode is a session that runs a single Chrome/Android app, after IT admins enroll a ChromeOS device into an organization and turn on Kiosk Mode.
Location Services		✔	Location Services on Chromebook estimates a user’s geolocation. This is then used for tasks such as setting timezones, providing websites in the correct language, and alerting users to possible unauthorized log-ins.
Managed Guest Sessions		✔	With managed guest sessions, multiple users can share the same ChromeOS devices without having to sign in to their Google Account. Instead, they can sign in using a managed guest session.
Password Leak Detection	✔		Password leak detection provides users with alerts when use of a potentially compromised password is detected.
Password Manager	✔		Password Manager supports users by saving and updating credentials, filling credentials into forms, and generating random and unique credentials.
Permission Suggestions	✔		Chrome Permissions Suggestions Service (CPSS) is a Chrome browser service that simplifies safe decision making for permission requests.
Phone-as-a-Security-Key	✔		Phone-as-a-Security-Key (PaaSK) is a form of second factor for Corp Authentication. With PaaSK, Google can turn any compatible iOS and Android device into a Security Key, to help protect your account.
Policy Management		✔	Policy Management allows IT admins to set policies for their enrolled managed devices, or for their managed end user Google Accounts (Chrome profiles).
Quick Answers - Translation		✔	Quick Answers - Translation allows users to translate content into their selected language, without needing to navigate elsewhere.
Safe Browsing	✔		Safe Browsing helps protect against known phishing, social engineering, malware, unwanted software, malicious ads, intrusive ads, and abusive websites or extensions.
Safe Sites	✔		Safe Sites uses the Safe Search API to inspect URLs for explicit content and prevent access by unauthorized users.
Screencast		✔	Screencast allows users to create and view screencasts. They can then upload them to Google Drive.
Spell Check (Basic)		✔	Spell check helps users to review and correct spelling errors when they enter text into input fields on the web. Basic spellcheck uses a dictionary stored locally on the device, text is not sent to Google.
Spell Check (Enhanced)	✔	✔	Enhanced Spell Check is used in Google Search and sends the text users enter into text boxes on webpages in their browser, to Google, for improved spelling suggestions.
Time Services		✔	Time Services on Chromebook relies upon Location Services to estimate your timezone.
Translate	✔		Allows the translation of web pages from one language to another.
User Metrics	✔	✔	User Metrics sends usage statistics to Google, to ensure features and services are improved and working as intended.
User & Device Reporting		✔	User & Device Reporting allows IT admins to view insights about the ChromeOS devices in their organization, such as Chrome devices count by version and the Chrome release channel of their devices.

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