Your Chrome tabs and benchmarks could soon be found using the Pixel launcher search bar – do phone

A Chrome function flag referred to as “Combine with Android App Search” was noticed by LanceAdams on Telegram (by way of cellular tech journalist Mishaal Rahman, AndroidPolice) indicating that Chrome tabs and bookmarks could be found and opened by using the search bar on the Pixel Launcher.  A earlier model of the flag made it clear what it’s going to do: “Donate the tabs and bookmarks to Android App Search.” A function flag, found on developer choices, lets you allow or disable a brand new function with out having to put in an replace.

Whereas this function ought to debut on Pixel fashions, it could find yourself on different Android handsets exterior of the Pixel sequence. Final 12 months it appeared that Google was going to permit the Pixel Launcher search bar to search from inside extra apps whereas it will additionally seem on third-occasion launchers. Up to now, although, we have not seen this come to gentle. With the discovery of the “Combine with Android App Search” flag, it is doable that we could soon see the Pixel Launcher search bar seem on third-occasion launchers and seize information from inside extra apps.

If you happen to do not personal a Pixel however have a factor for the Pixel Launcher’s search bar, a 3rd-occasion app referred to as the Pixel Search app is available from the Play Store. The app is free and the developer behind it, Rushikesh Kamewar, has 15 apps already accessible in the Google Play Retailer. The one factor the app cannot do that the actual Pixel Launcher search bar can is search for is system settings though Kamewar says that such a function will finally be added to the app.