In this guide

Open Home settings
Change home screen options
Open Pixel search settings
Change what search shows
If you do not see this option
If this does not work
Good to know
Sources

Short answer

Press and hold an empty part of the home screen and tap Home settings. Here you set notification dots, At a Glance, new app icons and swipe to Google. Apps list settings, then Pixel search settings, controls what the search bar shows, such as Web search.

Device: Android
Shown on: Google Pixel 10a, Android 17 (build CP3A.260905.009)
App: Home screen
Path: Home screen › Home settings › Apps list settings › Pixel search settings
Real screenshots: 4 of 4 steps
What we did: Looked at each screen; changed nothing
Checked: October 2026
Sources: 1 official, linked below

Step by step

Open Home settings
Press and hold an empty part of the home screen. The menu has Wallpaper and style, Widgets, Apps list and Home settings. Tap Home settings.
Done
Change home screen options
On ours Notification dots, At a Glance, Add app icons to home screen, Swipe to access Google app and Overview suggestions were on. Tap Apps list settings.
Done
Open Pixel search settings
Apps list settings has Always show keyboard (off on ours), Show long app names and Show browser tab tiles. Tap Pixel search settings.
Done
Change what search shows
Web search was on: it shows search history and suggestions from the Google app. Control search results decides which apps, people and more appear.
Done

If you do not see this option

No Home settings in the menu? Press and hold an empty space, not an app icon.
New apps not on the home screen? Add app icons to home screen must be on. Source: Add apps, shortcuts and widgets to your Home screens

If this does not work

Keyboard pops up when you swipe up? Turn off Always show keyboard in Apps list settings.
Search shows web results you don't want? Turn off Web search in Pixel search settings.

About this guide

Pixel Launcher's settings are reached from the home screen itself, not from the Settings app list.

The screenshots are from our Google Pixel 10a with Android 17 (build CP3A.260905.009), in Dark mode. We only looked at these screens and changed nothing.