Google Search widget on iPhone provides customizable shortcuts

The Search widget supplied by the Google app on iPhone and iPad now presents customizable shortcuts, together with to Gemini.

Beforehand, the Medium widget (as seen above) simply confirmed a pill-shaped search bar up high and shortcuts for Lens, Voice Search, and Incognito. 

That backside row of shortcuts can now be personalized with a fourth slot added. You’ll be able to select from:

• Exercise: The app’s second tab that reveals Open tabs, Search Historical past, and Saved pages
• Gemini
• Homework: Google Lens
• Incognito
• Lens
• Screenshots: Google Lens
• Music Search
• Translate
• Translate – Digicam
• Translate – Voice
• Voice Search

A number of actions open the suitable Google Lens filter. The Gemini shortcut is especially notable and takes you on to that tab, with Gemini showing proper subsequent to Search on iOS.

To edit the shortcuts, faucet your profile image within the top-right nook of the Google app for Settings > Widgets. It’s also possible to set a Widget theme (rotating background) with Earth, Summary artwork, and Stable colours.

There are not any customization choices for the Small widget, although it was up to date so as to add voice search and Google Lens a couple of months in the past. 

Google is engaged on a comparable replace for the Android Search widget that customers can place on their homescreens, however you may solely get one customizable shortcut subsequent to Voice Search and Lens.

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