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Keep in mind Google Now on Faucet? For these of you who don’t know, Now on Faucet was a extremely helpful characteristic Google launched in Android 6.0 Marshmallow that allow you to press and maintain the house button to research the contents of your display screen. Sadly, Now on Faucet was killed off after Google Assistant launched, and whereas Assistant did carry over the flexibility to look your display screen, it wasn’t as simple to entry (and it generally disappeared fully). Thankfully, Google is engaged on a brand new display screen search gesture that harkens again to the Now on Faucet days.

Whereas digging by the first beta of Android 14 QPR1, Android Authority found a hidden setting known as “maintain deal with to look.” This setting, when enabled, permits you to “press and maintain the navigation deal with to invoke search over your display screen.” The setting is presently hidden, however we managed to make it seem underneath Settings > System > Navigation mode > Gesture Navigation, as proven under.

Sadly, this characteristic presently doesn’t work. A separate flag must be toggled in order that long-pressing on the underside bar does something in any respect, however even when that flag is enabled, display screen search nonetheless doesn’t work. In keeping with our evaluation, this display screen search characteristic may be accessible by a button on the recents display screen (presumably changing the “Choose” button), however we weren’t in a position to get this button to point out up.

Regardless, it’s potential that this characteristic received’t work till an replace rolls out to the Google App, which powers the Google Lens service. In latest weeks, the Google Assistant panel has began to point out a “search display screen” shortcut of its personal. Tapping this sends a screenshot of the present web page to Google Lens, which analyzes the picture to extract textual content, hyperlinks, present related search outcomes, and extra. Our guess is that Android 14 QPR1’s display screen search gesture will do the identical, however we don’t know for certain presently.

For years, customers have been desirous to see Google deliver again Now on Faucet. If this new display screen search characteristic works as anticipated, we might quickly have a correct Now on Faucet alternative in our arms.