Pixel Launcher search is getting a giant improve with Android 13, together with the power to question the Play Store. In the meantime, forward of the general public launch, Google continues to survey customers concerning the functionality.
In Android 13, Google unifies the search bar on the backside of your Pixel’s homescreen and the one which seems on the prime of the app drawer. It’s now the identical expertise with each fields permitting you to search the net, purposes, app shortcuts, and contacts. In the meantime, if these outcomes fail, the Pixel Launcher will allow you to rapidly search and open YouTube, Maps, and the Play Store along with Google (Search) and the Settings app.
That mentioned, as of the Android 13 Beta Program, not all options are constantly reside throughout telephones. It seems that Google continues to be testing numerous capabilities earlier than the patron launch.
A type of exams is for inline Play Store outcomes. Looking for an app title that isn’t put in on your telephone can carry up inline outcomes from Google Play that notice the score and developer title. A number of apps will be proven with a faucet opening the itemizing immediately.
L-R: Android 12 (Google app & Pixel Launcher search) | Android 13 (disabled & reside)
This Play Store search just isn’t reside on each Android 13 Beta machine. We’ve got it on only one Pixel 6a and 6 Professional, however not a 4a. Additional highlighting the variance is how the aforementioned 6a doesn’t have a setting to allow Folks (contacts + conversations) search.
All this may presumably be streamlined as soon as the secure model of Android 13 launches.
Forward of that, Google continues to ask customers concerning the machine search expertise. It first did so in June, and the newest comes from Google Opinion Rewards. Google is presumably behind this survey, and asks “what was your major purpose once you looked for On-device content material within the search field?”
- Discover or handle telephone settings
- Discover or browse content material on an app
- Discover an individual’s contact data
- Discover content material on the net
- Take an motion on app (e.g. ship textual content)
- An app not put in on my telephone
- Different (please specify)
The second query is fairly attention-grabbing and needs to know whether or not you’ve gotten a problem (comfy vs. uncomfortable) with “seeing the app and internet leads to a single search field.” The instance it makes use of is a primary title question that exhibits each on-device contacts and internet outcomes for well-known folks.
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