After putting in Android 13’s secure launch at this time, beta customers would possibly discover that the brand new unified Pixel Launcher search expertise has disappeared.

Certainly one of Android 13’s finest options on Pixel telephones is that it unifies net and gadget search. The search bar on the backside of your homescreen is now the identical as the sphere that seems on the high of the app grid.

After updating to the secure launch of Android 13 from Beta 4.1, all our units have misplaced unified search. This consists of telephones the place we manually sideloaded the replace and people who obtained the small on-device OTA from Beta 4.1 to secure. We’re seeing this challenge on a number of Pixel 4a, 6, 6 Professional, and 6a items.

One telltale signal of this regression is how the search fields are now not equivalent, with the app drawer’s bar dropping the ‘G’ brand, microphone, and Google Lens icon. The precise expertise from the homescreen returns to the years-old one with no Materials You stylings.

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Google instructed us this night that it’s conscious of the problem and that it will likely be resolved in an “upcoming launch.” Hopefully, this may be mounted by way of a server-side repair as the problem seems to have regressed with none finish consumer motion or app replace.

Android 13 Beta customers had unified search all through the preview and briefly after updating to the secure launch. The brand new UI robotically disappears after a while or following a tool reboot.

In the meantime, Google has a repair for a way Android 13 Beta customers can not sideload the OTA because of the picture being older than the Beta 4.1 patch. The on-device (Verify for OTA) replace is extensively rolling out this afternoon. 

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