Tell Google exactly what you think about Android 13’s home screen search bar
It’s been a couple weeks now sinceAndroid 13 Beta 3first landed, and Google’s been keeping testers busy ever since, dropping its Beta 3.1 update only days later, ahead ofBeta 3.2late last week. Chances are, that’ll be it for this cycle, and the next release we’ll see will be Beta 4 sometime in July. But ahead of that, Google’s looking to get some feedback from all you early adopters, and has put outa new User Experience surveyto collect your opinions.
This is far from the first time we’ve seen Google reach out to Android 13 testers — heck, theBeta 3.1 releasewas pretty much solely intended to restore the Android Beta Feedback app — and it’s distributed surveys like this before. While the last time we checked one of those outGoogle was asking a ton of different questionsrelated to everything from battery life, to performance, to how hot your phone got, this latest edition seems laser-focused on just one aspect of the platform: the search experience
Specifically, Google’s questions are focused around the Android home screen search widget, and opinions about that experience versus what you got on Android 12, as well as compared to the app drawer search box. We’ve noticed that sometimes the survey offers participants more questions than other times, but they all have to do with search behavior.
Android 13’s been adding more and more functionality as itcombines on-device and web search, so it’s only understandable that Google’s curious how its users feel about these changes. If you’ve been running the DPs and new Betas on your Pixel phone, go ahead andlet Google know your thoughtsabout how it’s been doing — you have until June 28 to contribute.
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