Hi! Thanks! - But what if I want to use the selector to chose another search engine? Will that require a new FP3 OS update, or is it the app that is missbehaving?
I can only speculate here. From what users have written here since yesterday, it seems to me the Search engine selector does not work on anyone’s FP3, so most likely, yes, it will take the next update.
I would welcome if I’m proven wrong. After all I would be curious if “none” was an option in it as well – it seems to me that many want to get rid of the search bar on their start screen altogether.
Is it really everyone’s FP3, or is it just speculation? I thought that maybe it depends on some other app might have been removed/deactivated (considering many of us here try to de-Google their phones as much as possible). Maybe it requires Chrome to be active (since it states it does also influence the search engine in Chrome), or requires the default launcher, or… who knows?! I don’t use any of these and have it disabled, so I cannot check… But all this is just my personal speculation.
I just got my FP3 today, installed the update and I got the notification, too.
Using the search engine selection app doesn’t work, so I ended up deactivating it like Urs described.
No custom launcher, no disabled Google apps so far.
Hi there,
Saw this thread before installing the update to help deciding if I should install it or not.
Well, I did install it. I am getting the same behaviour.
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The search engine selector is not a standard app so will not show in the list unless you select to display the system processes
According to a website I found when looking for what the search engine selector was intended to be, I found that it may only work from March 1 2020… See the text under the screenshot stating “It’s possible the March 1 date may point to when we can expect to see these alternative search engines appear on Android in Europe”. So may be it’s worth waiting a bit and see if it works then (ok I would still don’t understand why this was deployed if it is intended not to be working immediately upon release)
Hi, as I wrote in another topic I have the same problem, and I also can’t find an app called search engine something (in English or German). When I tap the notification it turns white with text (diese Benachrichtigungen werden) and on top of this another text in Green (… rückgängig machen). And I don’t see any “i” to tap.
How can I get rid of the app and everything to do with it (if it’s google, probably data collecting)?
I am trying to keep my FP3 as googlefree as possible,