I used to be able to tap on the microphone on the first page of the
desktop and say "Open [app name]", but now it just opens the web
browser and searches for the app. Of course that does me no good, but I guess it makes sense because there is a colorful G at the left end of
the field, so it's a google field now.
I tried saying "Open *app* app-name" but that didn't help.
How can get the microphone to open one of my phone's already installed
apps?
2) On a previous phone there was a field at the top of the page (every
page?) and I could search for an installed app by typing in a few
characters. But this phone doesn't have that field.
How do I open an app when I can't find it by paging through and looking
for the icon?
BTW, my phone's Google just produces website lists, even though I've
tried multiple alternatives to "Open {app name}".
I never use the microphone "talk to Google" thing. It seems too
pretentious and idle to me, apart from being antisocial. So I don't know
if previous versions of Google acted differently.
Ed
How do I open an app when I can't find it by paging
through and looking for the icon?
On 9/19/23 13:19, Ed Cryer wrote:
BTW, my phone's Google just produces website lists, even though I've
tried multiple alternatives to "Open {app name}".
I never use the microphone "talk to Google" thing. It seems too
pretentious
and idle to me,
apart from being antisocial.
So I don't know
if previous versions of Google acted differently.
Ed
I'd imagine it used to act more like most assistants, googling as a last >resort..
guess they really want that adspace
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candycanearter07 <no@thanks.net> wrote
How do I open an app when I can't find it by paging
through and looking for the icon?
The best free adfree gsfree app manager has been discussed umpteen times
so I'll just repeat it will find any package installed on any device.
*App Manager* - Android package manager by Muntashir Akon
A full-featured open source package manager for android. <https://github.com/MuntashirAkon/AppManager> <https://muntashirakon.github.io/AppManager/en/> <https://f-droid.org/packages/io.github.muntashirakon.AppManager/>
On Tue, 19 Sep 2023 11:43:08 -0400, micky <NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com> wrote:
| I used to be able to tap on the microphone on the first page of the
| desktop and say "Open [app name]", but now it just opens the web
| browser and searches for the app. Of course that does me no good, but I
| guess it makes sense because there is a colorful G at the left end of
| the field, so it's a google field now.
|
| I tried saying "Open *app* app-name" but that didn't help.
|
| How can get the microphone to open one of my phone's already installed
| apps?
|
| 2) On a previous phone there was a field at the top of the page (every
| page?) and I could search for an installed app by typing in a few
| characters. But this phone doesn't have that field.
|
| How do I open an app when I can't find it by paging through and looking
| for the icon?
On Tue, 19 Sep 2023 11:43:08 -0400, micky <NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com> wrote:
| I used to be able to tap on the microphone on the first page of the
| desktop and say "Open [app name]", but now it just opens the web
| browser and searches for the app. Of course that does me no good, but I
| guess it makes sense because there is a colorful G at the left end of
| the field, so it's a google field now.
|
| I tried saying "Open *app* app-name" but that didn't help.
|
| How can get the microphone to open one of my phone's already installed
| apps?
|
| 2) On a previous phone there was a field at the top of the page (every
| page?) and I could search for an installed app by typing in a few
| characters. But this phone doesn't have that field.
|
| How do I open an app when I can't find it by paging through and looking
| for the icon?
On Sun, 24 Sep 2023 12:59:00 -0500, candycanearter07 <no@thanks.net> wrote:
| On 9/24/23 00:38, Paul Colquhoun wrote:
On Tue, 19 Sep 2023 11:43:08 -0400, micky <NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com> wrote: >|> | I used to be able to tap on the microphone on the first page of the|
| desktop and say "Open [app name]", but now it just opens the web
| browser and searches for the app. Of course that does me no good, but I >|> | guess it makes sense because there is a colorful G at the left end of
| the field, so it's a google field now.
|
| I tried saying "Open *app* app-name" but that didn't help.
|
| How can get the microphone to open one of my phone's already installed >|> | apps?
|
| 2) On a previous phone there was a field at the top of the page (every >|> | page?) and I could search for an installed app by typing in a few
| characters. But this phone doesn't have that field.
|
| How do I open an app when I can't find it by paging through and looking >|> | for the icon?
| Why does your quoting use | instead of >?
It's a configurable setting in the software I use. I've forgotten why I >picked that option, because it was probably over 20 years ago when I did
it.
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