Google Search widget redesign drops most customization

You’ve lengthy been in a position to progressively customise the Google Search widget, however a redesign takes away a lot of the choices.

Beforehand, you needed to first place the “Google” — because it’s known as — widget in your homescreen after which open the Google app > faucet profile photograph for account menu > Settings > Search widget > Customise widget. From right here, you may change the

• Bar brand: “Google” or multicolored ‘G’ on the left
• Bar form: Rectangle with sharp corners, Rectangle with rounded corners, or capsule
• Bar colour: Darkish background with four-color icons, gentle with grey, black with white, or customized with hue and saturation changes
• Bar shading: Slider from See by means of to Stable

The brand new “Customise Search widget” method can also be accessed from Google app settings, however with fewer choices. Particularly, Google now solely permits you to select from set colour themes. There’s Mild or Darkish backgrounds with System set because the default. The Lens, microphone, and G icons persist with the official four-color design, with the corporate possible eager to retain extra management over the model. It’s much like how the Google app on iOS now gives totally different icons. 

Of observe is the addition of Machine, or Dynamic Colour. Beforehand, this was solely accessible on the search bar on the backside of the Pixel Launcher while you enabled Themed icons. 

The one different customization choice is a Transparency slider with “Undo” within the nook to reset. You faucet “Add” to put it in your homnescreen. 

It’s unclear how many individuals knew in regards to the customization choices that had been launched in 2018.

We’re at present seeing this Search widget redesign on Pixel and Samsung Galaxy with the Google app beta (model 15.30.x). It’s not but broadly rolled out.