Android users are used to the Google widget present on Home Screen. It offers quick access to searches and other Google services, without having to open the application. If you recently switched from Android to iPhone (iOS), in this tutorial you will see how to add the Google Search widget on iPhone Home Screen. This way you will make it look a little like a smartphone Android.
You will have quick access to Google Search, Search Voice or Google Lens directly from Home Screen or Lock Screen.
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How to add Google Search widget on iPhone Home Screen
To add the Google search bar on iPhone Home Screen, first of all you have to install the Google application from App Store. Being devices developed by Apple, iPhones do not come with Google services installed.
1. You open App Store on iPhone and install the Google application on the iPhone.
2. Go on Home Screen and press and hold in a neutral area to activate the options to add widgets, then press the sign “+” from the top left of the iPhone screen and search for Google in the Widgets gallery.
3. From the gallery with widgets (Search Widgets), add Google and select the widget style you want to add to the iPhone screen. Add Widget.
This is how you added Google Search to your iPhone Home Screen with quick access to the Google search bar, Voice Search (search with voice dictation) and Google Lens (search by images).
How to add Google Search widget on iPhone Lock Screen
To bring the screen of an iPhone even closer to that of an Android smartphone. you can add Google services to the lock screen. Lock Screen. That way you can have quick access to Google Search, Lens and Voice Search as soon as you unlock your iPhone, without having to enter the Home Screen.
1. Unlock the iPhone and press and hold on the screen Lock Screen in a neutral area, then press the "Customize" button and select "Lock Screen".
2. Press "Add Widget" then choose Google from the list of applications that support widgets.
3. From the gallery of widgets available for the Google application, select which one you want to appear on Lock Screen.
Now you can launch Google directly from Lock Screen, after authentication with Face ID.
