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is there still no way to remove the Google search bar from the Pixel home screen? (lemm.ee)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/googlepixel

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Nova launcher is getting more and more incompatible with my Google Pixel 8 and my Google Pixel 6. The Google search bar on the home screen was the reason I started using a third party launcher. have they fixed that yet?

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (3 children)

You can make it use a different search engine, but that's about it. Oh, and the update that made it possible also brought a google-only circle to search gesture to older Pixels - ~~if you switch search provider, that gesture won't be available~~. Edit: it worked like that on release, but apparently has been fixed since. Now circle to search works (using Google) no matter what search provider you use for the search bar.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I mean, to be fair, I don't think it's up to Google to create an image search feature for DDG or someone else on their phones

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

If Microsoft got busted for giving Internet Explorer special APIs not available to other programs (which made it the best browser on Windows because of its tight integration that could not be replicated by the competition), then what business does Google have doing pretty much the same thing here?

It doesn't appear like there's any way for other search providers to hijack your nav pill and randomly pop up their own UI when you hold it, so why should Google?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

Very good point. Thank you for the alternative perspective

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

It doesn't seem to have been rolled out in Canada. I don't see the setting.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Apparently it's an EU thing due to the recent DMA changes

https://www.androidpolice.com/google-pixel-launcher-change-default-search-engine/

[–] WereCat 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I have default search changed to DDG but if I use circle to search it will use Google search... I'm fine with that though.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

Oh, I tried it now and it really works. I still have mixed feelings about it, but that's definitely an improvement over how it worked at release.