After the pixel launcher’s shortcut, you can now add the AI mode to the Google Search Homescreen widget on any Android device.
As with a regular search, this allows you to immediately enter an prompt in the AI full screen mode screen. Access to the widget appeared for the first time in April for some users of the Google Beta application. It went through some cycles to be available and then disappear at random.
In the past few days, we have seen the shortcut of the widget in mode widely deployed for beta and stable users on Google App 16.28. He appears in his own circle to the right of the vocal microphone and Google Lens in the last overhaul of the widget.
To define, press the widget of your home screen for a long time for settings / modify to access a customization screen with theme and transparency options. This is also available in the list of parameters of the Google application.
Press the shortcuts, with “AI mode” being the second option of the grid after “none”. If you use AI mode on a non -pixel device, the “Google” widget is the fastest way to launch AI mode from your home screen.
In the meantime, if you are not part of the “AI” mode research laboratoryThe upper part of the Google application still uses the old design. The shortcut in AI mode is a pill in the colored carousel under the search bar instead of being part of it.
You may want to consider registering for the more elegant design that is available when you scroll through the discovery flow and test live search.
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