Chrome Not Updating How To Trigger Chrome

And while Google Chrome handles these updates by itself most of the time, you might be wondering how to trigger Chrome to update manually.

Thankfully, its pretty easy to update Google Chrome on your PC, Mac, Android, or iPhone devices, and well show you how to do it.

By default, Google Chrome is constantly checking for the latest version of Chrome to download.

So if youve landed on this article simply because you want to make sure Chrome is up to date or you have the latest features, chances are you already do.

Unless youve turned off automatic updates for some reason, updates are downloaded automatically in the background as soon as theyre available, and closing and reopening your browser (which most of us do many times a day) are pushing those downloaded updates live on your machine.

Thats why you might see the top-right corner of the browser (where you normally see the three dots More button) turn into an arrow of a few different colors.

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A green arrow means the update has been waiting to install 2 days, orange means 4, and red means 7.

No matter the case, just click that arrow and click Update Google Chrome to update and restart your browser.

As mentioned, if youve turned off automatic updates, then youre going to have to go digging in the Settings menus of Chrome each time you want to update.

To do that, you can simply click this easy shortcut right here if youre using Chrome or follow these steps.

You can then manually restart your browser and you should be up and running on the latest version of Google Chrome.

Google facilitates updates to Chrome on iOS and Android through their respective app stores.

On an Android device, simply open up the Play Store app and head to My apps and games where youll see a full list of apps that need to be updated.

On iOS, you can head to the App Store and tap the Updates tab.

If theres a new version of Chrome available, youll see it there.

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