One of the best features of Android 13 on Pixel phones is that it unifies web and device search. The search bar at the bottom of your home screen is now the same as the field that appears at the top of the app grid. After updating to the stable version of Android 13 from Beta 4.1, all our devices have lost the unified search. This includes phones that we manually installed the update on and those that received the small OTA on the device from Beta 4.1 to stable. We are seeing this issue on several Pixel 4a, 6, 6 Pro, and 6a units. One telltale sign of this regression is how the search fields are no longer identical, with the app drawer bar losing the ‘G’ logo, the microphone and the Google lens icon. The real home screen experience returns to the old, style-less Material You. L: New | R: Old Google told us this afternoon that it’s aware of the issue and that it will be fixed in an “upcoming release.” Hopefully this can be fixed via a server-side patch, as the issue seems to have subsided without any end-user action or application update. Android 13 Beta users had unified search throughout the preview and for a while after updating to the stable version. The new user interface disappears automatically after some time or after restarting the device. Meanwhile, Google has a fix for how Android 13 Beta users can’t load the OTA due to the image being older than the Beta 4.1 patch. The update to the device (Checking for OTA) is rolling out widely this afternoon. L: New | R: Old
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