Yes, there is a way to turn off the touch screen on your Chromebook. However, as of this writing, it’s an experimental feature.

To access it, you’ll need to pilot to chrome://flags in the Chrome browser. Don’t worry; we’ll give you a detailed, step-by-step guide on how to disable your Chromebook’s touch screen in no time.

How to turn off touch screen on Chromebook

Step 1:
Open the Chrome browser.

Type in “chrome://flags.”

chrome://flags in Chrome browser


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Step 2:
seek for the word ‘keyboard’ in the Experiments window.

Find “Debugging keyboard shortcuts” and select “Enable” in the drop-down menu.

Enabled dropdown next to 'Debugging keyboard shortcuts'


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Step 3:
Click on ‘Restart.’

expect for your Chromebook to reboot.

Restart button on Chromebook


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Step 4:
Turn off touch screen with Shift + seek + ‘T’ combo

On some keyboards, the seek key is a white dot. On others, it’s a magnifying glass. Now, if you try to touch your Chromebook’s screen, it should be unresponsive.

Disable touchscreen on Chromebook keyboard shortcut


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Note: We used the Acer Chromebook Spin 514 for this how-to.


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