Android 13 unifies the look and feel of both search experiences again, but they still remain slightly different. On Android 12, tapping the search bar on the home screen would bring you right to the Google app for search, while the search bar in the app drawer was focused on local results like apps, contacts, settings, and in-app content. It revamps how search works yet again, though.

The Pixel Launcher doesn't enjoy many visual changes compared to Android 12. The Pixel Launcher's new search experience The only apps I spotted working with so far are Google News and the system settings. To enable this behavior, you need to activate your Pixel's developer options and toggle on predictive back animations. This is supposed to better indicate when you're about to leave an app. When the next backward navigation brings you to the home screen, you will get an animation similar to what you see when you swipe up from the bottom to go home, with the app window increasingly getting smaller and closer to the corresponding icon on the home screen. Google is also laying a foundation for a tweak to back gestures, though this will only go live with the subsequent release, Android 14.

In theory, this is supposed to dunk all the apps on your home screen into the same wallpaper-based background and foreground colors, leaving you with a uniform-looking design. However, Android 13 is the first Android version to bring themed icon support to third-party apps, so you're finally no longer limited to themed Google apps. Like Android 12, Android 13 also lets you turn on themed icons for your home screen, which builds on top of what the first release brought. All this is accessible from the Wallpapers & Style settings on the home screen. This gives you a lot more flexibility in changing your interface colors without switching wallpapers, and it is a much-needed push in the right direction. Most notably, Android 13 offers many more extracted colors to pick from, giving you up to 16 different color themes from one wallpaper. Android 13 doesn't outright fix any of the underlying issues with the new design language, but it builds on top of what Android 12 introduced and refines certain aspects.

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