The latest beta version of the Google app includes a redesign of the homescreen Discover feed on Android 12 that revamps the header and removes the search bar.
Last night, version 12.14 of the Google Search app began rolling out through the Play Store to those who enrolled in the beta program. Following the update, devices on Android 12 have gotten a redesigned header for the Discover feed available on Pixel phones by swiping to the furthest left homescreen page.
Where the previous version of this page’s header was tall and offered a larger Google logo paired with a search bar, the new version is much shorter with only a simplified monochrome Google logo, a button leading to the Assistant’s Snapshot feed, and your profile picture, which opens to the Google app’s settings.
Just as before, the dark mode version allows a peek at your wallpaper through the somewhat transparent background. The transparency is only available for the header, below which you can faintly see the rounded corners of the darker background of the Discover feed itself.
