Android 13 Beta 3 brings more control to what you see in Pixel Launcher search
Google’s been working on enhancing the Pixel Launcher’s search functionality for a while now, bringing usmultimodal “universal” search supportin Android 12. Over the last few months, we’ve seenAndroid 13 build this out even further, with widgets in results, search suggestions, and evenpinning support. With the arrival ofAndroid 13 Beta 3, Google starts giving us more control over just what we find here.
Android guruMishaal Rahmanwas among the first to get the new Beta 3 up and running, and quickly spotted new Pixel Launcher settings that give users the option to enable web suggestions. Configuring the toggle does exactly what it describes, and displays suggested search phrases for web queries while you’re entering your text.
Above: The new toggle, search with suggestions disabled, search with suggestions active.
You’ll also notice those search shortcuts for things like YouTube and Maps, another Beta 3 additionspotted by Rahman.
Like so many other Beta features, this setting still feels a little rough around the edges. While testing it, we found that suggestions would frequently stop appearing seemingly on their own, as if this toggle just didn’t want to stay selected.
Google does still have a few months to go before it finalizes Android 13 for its big public release, but that’s really not a ton of time to be ironing out bugs, so we’re curious to learn if this one’s really ready to go in time, or if maybe we see it back-burnered and reappear at some future date.
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