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 anyoneâs FP3, so most likely, yes, it will take the next update.
I would welcome if Iâm proven wrong. After all I would be curious if ânoneâ was an option in it as well â it seems to me that many want to get rid of the search bar on their start screen altogether.
The name of this (newish?) app is
com.google.android.apps.setupwizard.searchselector
in case you want to remove it for good, as described here:
For the record, the app did pop up for a second on my device, just as with clsbln , but closed right after.
I tend to see this as a good sign for my (mostly) un-googled phone
The update went well. Thanks to @urs_lesse for the solution how to deactivate the engine selector.
An even faster way to get rid of the âsearch engine selectorâ notification (that also works with work profiles):
Long tap the notification (turns white) > tap (i) > deactivate > confirm warning message.
Is it really everyoneâs 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 donât use any of these and have it disabled, so I cannot check⌠But all this is just my personal speculation.
Same issue here too.
I just got my FP3 today, installed the update and I got the notification, too.
Using the search engine selection app doesnât work, so I ended up deactivating it like Urs described.
No custom launcher, no disabled Google apps so far.
Oh, I see. Thanks for invalidating my assumption and confirming the contrary
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.
2 comments:
- 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 âItâs possible the March 1 date may point to when we can expect to see these alternative search engines appear on Android in Europeâ. So may be itâs worth waiting a bit and see if it works then (ok I would still donât understand why this was deployed if it is intended not to be working immediately upon release)
Cheers
Thanks, the foul demon now rests in the storage!
I got these instructions from customer support:
- slide down from the top of your screen to open the drop-down menu;
- long-press the writing âSearch engine selectorâ (the tile will become white);
- long-press the âiâ in the circle located at the top right corner of the tile;
- tap on notifications (a new window will appear, showing on top the writing âShow notificationâ);
- next to the writing âShow notificationâ tap on the toggle to turn the notifications off;
- go back to your home screen. Done!
You will have to repeat the procedure if you have a work profile on your device.
I did! My Vodafone Wi-Fi router now works, and it did not before.
Hi, as I wrote in another topic I have the same problem, and I also canât 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 (⌠rĂźckgängig machen). And I donât see any âiâ to tap.
How can I get rid of the app and everything to do with it (if itâs google, probably data collecting)?
I am trying to keep my FP3 as googlefree as possible,
Ok, once again. with screenshots. so everyone should understand how to do it:
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long press on the notification (about 2 seconds)
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press on the âiâ icon
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press âDISABLEâ
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press âDISABLE APPâ
now you wonât see any further notifications
BTW that screen/respectively the reason for that screen is actually quite a good one, because it is the result of the EU antitrust ruling against Google.
Thoigh the fact that this has been criticized by DuckDuckGo (though they seem to have deleted that for unknown reasons) and Ecosia (in German, sorry).
That it does not work (yet?) though, is awkward, of course.
Conspiracy theory, Fairphone is on Googles payroll: Fairphone screwed up the selection function in the update to avoid changing the default search engine.
Iâd invoke Hanlonâs Razor here
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