• dustyData@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    What does this mean? I don’t have a search bar on my home screen, and I’m not using a third-party launcher.

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      9 months ago

      Depends what phone you have - Pixels have a search bar on the home screen by default (not sure if they can be turned off on later models, maybe?)

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        8 months ago

        I haven’t used anything other than Nova on my Pixel 7 Pro since I almost immediately realized I couldn’t find a way to turn it off in Pixel Launcher. The whole ad campaign that they ran around personalization was a complete joke, feels like an iClone and I hate it.

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          8 months ago

          Agreed - although, just to check you know about Nova being bought out a few months ago by a firm known for data harvesting? If you did and/or are fine with it no worries. If you didn’t, it’s worth looking into (and sorry to be the bearer of bad news).

          I used Nova for years, but have switched to Total - less slick and user friendly to set up, but very customisable, even more than Nova.

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            8 months ago

            Sadly yes, I’ve been exploring a few alternatives in case it starts looking like a data mining nightmare but nothing so far, maybe I’ll give total a shot