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Prakhar Khanna \/ Android Authority<\/p>\n
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TL;DR<\/p>\n
Google\u2019s Pixel Search app, launched with the Pixel 11, is coming to older phones.
\nAll phones, including Pixel 6 and newer, now support the refreshed Search experience.
\nPixel Search goes beyond traditional Google Search on Android devices, letting users look for files, folders, conversations, Drive, Photos, calendar entries, and more using natural language.<\/p>\n
The November 2026 Pixel Drop<\/a> is here, and along with several new features for the broad Pixel lineup, it also expands Pixel 11-exclusive items to older phones. One such feature is the renewed Pixel Search experience<\/a>, which first arrived with the Pixel 11 series. Now, Google is expanding it to older phones, going all the way back to the Pixel 6 series.<\/p>\n The persistent search bar on Pixel phones\u2019 home screens has long offered an experience that is distinct from the rest of Android devices. Unlike other Android devices, search on Pixel phones has traditionally also brought up results from local files and apps alongside web search results. Last year, Google temporarily took that away<\/a>, but only to introduce an even more far-reaching Pixel Search app when it launched the Pixel 11 phones.<\/p>\n This new Pixel Search app can search through users\u2019 media in the Photos app, emails, calendar entries, settings, and more. It also peers through active app screens to locate any relevant matches. What\u2019s even better is that these search queries need not match exact terms or menu items and can instead be written in natural language.<\/p>\n After launching the feature exclusively on the Pixel 11, Google is bringing it to the Pixel 6 and newer phones, and it doesn\u2019t exclude the A-series either. This confirms our previous findings from last month<\/a>, when we found clues in code suggesting a similar expansion of Pixel Search. The rollout is especially interesting for the Pixel 6 and 6 Pro<\/a>, which have reached their end of life and weren\u2019t expected to receive any new features.<\/p>\n Further, Pixel Search is also available in all markets where the Pixel is sold. Since the feature isn\u2019t just limited to the newer devices, we expect it to rely on the internet for processing requests. Beyond this, we also learned that Google was working on new \u201cGemini-powered suggestions<\/a>,\u201d but the tech giant isn\u2019t talking about it at the moment, suggesting we might have to wait a bit longer for that specific upgrade to roll out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Prakhar Khanna \/ Android Authority Add Android Authority on Google: TL;DR Google\u2019s Pixel Search app, launched with the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":965861,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[49,48,192,1123,14602,32586,176085,108976,34130,23168,20959,43449,78752,258316,8570,38971,6894,190,61],"class_list":["post-965860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mobile","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-google","tag-google-pixel","tag-google-pixel-10","tag-google-pixel-10-pro-fold","tag-google-pixel-10a","tag-google-pixel-11","tag-google-pixel-6","tag-google-pixel-6a","tag-google-pixel-7","tag-google-pixel-7a","tag-google-pixel-8","tag-google-pixel-8a","tag-google-pixel-9","tag-google-pixel-9-pro-fold","tag-google-pixel-9a","tag-mobile","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/965860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=965860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/965860\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/965861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=965860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=965860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=965860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}