The promised on-device search feature of Android 12 finally lands with the fifth beta. Here’s what it looks like and how it works!
On most Android phones nowadays, there’s a persistent Google search bar on the home screen. Using that, you can easily find all sorts of things all over the web, just as you would if you went to Google.com. However, it doesn’t show you results from a place you might want: the phone itself. Google told us that a full on-device search engine would come to Android 12 at some point. Now, with the fifth beta launched today, we finally can see it. On Pixel phones with Android 12 beta 5, you can access the new search feature within the app drawer. At the top of the drawer is a search bar that says “Search your phone and more” (see photo above).
