Migrate signage kiosks off the deprecated Chrome Sign Builder app by force-installing a replacement kiosk web app via the Chrome Policy API
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Steps
Confirm affected devices via the Chrome Management API device inventory, filtering for those still configured with the Chrome Sign Builder kiosk app ID (removed from the Chrome Web Store as of ChromeOS M150 / July 2026)
Authenticate to the Chrome Policy API with a Chrome Enterprise admin service account
Use the chrome.devices.kiosk.apps.ForceInstall policy schema to push a replacement kiosk web app (PWA or hosted web app) to the affected org unit
Set Kiosk Apps Config policies to control the replacement app's auto-launch and single-app kiosk behavior
Verify the policy resolved correctly via the Admin console UI or a policy-read call, since API and console changes are bidirectionally synced
Roll out org-unit by org-unit rather than tenant-wide, since kiosk devices actively displaying signage will restart their kiosk session when the new policy resolves
Known gotchas
Chrome Sign Builder was removed from the Chrome Web Store at ChromeOS M150 (~July 2026); devices still pointed at it fail to launch the kiosk app entirely, making this a hard cutover, not a gradual deprecation
Policy changes via the API can take a full device policy-refresh cycle (reboot or periodic check-in) to actually apply, so an API-reported 'migrated' state doesn't mean the physical screen has already switched over
Chrome apps overall reach end-of-life in October 2028, so any other legacy Chrome-app-based signage tooling on the same fleet needs the same kiosk-policy migration before then
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