2 weeks Ago By Abner Li
The Search widget offered by the Google app on iPhone and iPad now offers customizable shortcuts, including to Gemini. Previously, the Medium widget (as seen abvove) just showed a pill-shaped search bar up top and shortcuts for Lens, Voice Search, and Incognito. That bottom row of shortcuts can now be customized with a fourth slot added.
You can choose from: Activity: The app’s second tab that shows Open tabs, Search History, and Saved pages Gemini Homework: Google Lens Incognito Lens Screenshots: Google Lens Song Search Translate Translate – Camera Translate – Voice Voice Search More than a few of the shortcuts take you to a Google Lens filter. The Gemini shortcut is particularly notable and takes you to that tab, with Gemini appearing right next to Search on iOS. To edit the shortcuts, tap your profile picture in the top-right corner of the Google app for Settings > Widgets.
You can also set a Widget theme (rotating background) with Earth, Abstract art, and Solid colors. There are no customization options for the Small widget, though it was updated to add voice search and Google Lens in addition to text lookup a few months ago. Google is working on similar update for the Android Search widget that users can place on their homescreens, but you might only get one customizable shortcut next to Voice Search and Lens.
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