A curious bug today sees Google app device search replace the modern Pixel Launcher experience.
Tapping the bar at the bottom of the homescreen should slide up Pixel Launcher search. Your wallpaper remains in the background, with a sheet that prompts you to “Search web and more,” five app suggestions, and previous queries housed in Material 3 Expressive containers.
Pixel Launcher vs. Google app
As of Thursday evening, we’re instead redirected to the Google app’s device search experience. This is a fullscreen interface that you normally get on other Android devices and if you use the Google app’s homescreen widget. While it offers app search, Contacts lookup and other integrations are not available.
(More broadly, it’s about time Google modernizes that entry to Search on Android.)
This is happening on the stable Android 16 QPR2 release on at least two Pixel 10 phones we have checked. Those devices are running beta versions of the Google app (16.48), though this appears to be a server-side change. Rebooting does not fix this issue.
One workaround is not tapping the search bar and swiping up for the app launcher (with “Swipe up to start search” enabled), though muscle memory makes that difficult. Hopefully, Google will fix this in short order.
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