What it is

Formerly, Google Search Box.

Runs in the background.

Pointless. If you need a shortcut to Google on your homescreen just use a web-browser shortcut. Does also remove the Google Sound Search widget, but you can get that functionality from an app like Shazam, that additionally doesn't run in the background constantly like this package does.

This app also powers the Google Discover page (the news 'widget' when you go to the left of the home screen) and the app symbol called 'Google'.

Careful: Disabling this package also breaks the Ok Google Search functionality as well as Google Lens.

Commands

adb shell pm uninstall --user 0 com.google.android.googlequicksearchbox

To put it back:

adb shell cmd package install-existing com.google.android.googlequicksearchbox

Every removal listed here is per-user only: the system image is untouched, and the restore command puts the app back from the copy already on the device. Nothing is downloaded.

This is not the directory. Here we say what a package is in general; what happens on your particular television is on your model's entry, and that one wins. The same package can be dead weight on one set and hold the home screen up on another.

What it is

Commands

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