Pixel owners are getting quick access to AI Mode via the Google Search bar that’s built into the Pixel Launcher.
AI Mode is Google’s next big evolution of Search, with answers sourced from the web, but generated by Gemini models. Google opened the feature to all US users last month.
- Google expands AI Mode to all with Gmail integration and real-time camera access
Now, AI Mode is coming to the Pixel Launcher. Google has quietly started rolling out an AI Mode shortcut in the search bar that appears at the bottom of the Pixel Launcher. This is alongside shortcuts for voice search and Google Lens, while the majority of the bar still goes to traditional Google Search.
Max Weinbach, an occasional 9to5Google contributor, spotted the change on his Pixel. Reports on the rollout are otherwise quite limited so far, with very few other users seeing the change live on their end so far. We’ve not yet seen the change on our devices, but we’ll keep an eye out for a wider rollout.
If you don’t have this shortcut yet, you can still access AI Mode through traditional Google Search, it just takes an extra tap after the search has begun.
More on AI Mode:
- Google’s AI Mode is ‘the definition of theft,’ publishers say, opt-out was considered
- The difference between Gemini and Search AI Mode is an assistant
- Google starts testing ‘Search Live’ in AI Mode
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