Chris Thomas was a reporter at Android Police from 2022 until 2025. If you're running version 138 of Chrome for Android, you might’ve already seen a toast notification pop-up: “You can touch and hold ...

In December, Pixel Launcher search was replaced by the Google app. The Android 16 QPR3 March update compounds this design regression by removing the M3 Expressive search bar from the homescreen. Last ...

An Android 17 beta contains clues that you might soon be able to remove the search bar on Pixel home screens This could perhaps be part of the finished version of Android 17, but it's not yet ...