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Nothing Phones Get Google's Coveted Mobile Feature

www.droid-life.com Nothing Phones Get Google's Coveted Mobile Feature

Nothing announced this morning that Circle to Search has arrived for Nothing OS 3.0, meaning owners of Nothing Phone 2, Phone 2a, and Phone 2a Plus (in beta) now have Google more deeply integrated into their device. When activated, you can circle literally anything that... #Android #CircletoSearch

Circle to Search

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It's "circle to search" for anyone wondering
- I had written that info in post body.
  
  Hm.
  
  Well that's embarassing.
"Coveted feature" might be a bit exaggerated.
- Yeah, I honestly hate it TBH. It's made screenshottimg things much more awkward.
  
  Basically nerfed a feature I use all the time to make a feature I almost never use easier to use... I get I'm not the only android user in the world, but it would be nice to be able to pick between which mode you want.
  
  In colorOS smartphones you have the old fullscreen google lens function which can be accessed from the Smart Sidebar.
Now if only call screening was available on all devices that'd be great.
- sadly, i have to rely on Carrion from f-droid to block everything (dont have a pixel) :(
  
  Why "sadly"? What's your experience with Carrion?
  
  I transferred my old number to a VoIP provider and got a new number that I only give to friends and family.
  
  I don't get spam calls on either number now.
  
  Have you ever used Yet Another Call Blocker?
  
  I'm curious how it compares to Carrion (I'm not sure they're directly comparable, looks like Carrion does a little more than YACB).
  
  I've used YACB for years, just to keep my phone from ringing for unknown calls, and only allow contacts to ring through.
  
  You will have to switch soon. DivestOS has been shutdown
  
  I use this on my pixel with Graphene OS and it works great once I completely degoogoled my entire phone my spam calls and text pretty much all went away.
- This would be an awesome feature. It should be made available on other devices like Circle to search.
- NOOOOO, you nEed to bUy piXeL for that!
What component provides this feature? I just changed to grapheneos and I miss it.
- I guess the Google app. If you install the Gapps. You can try this app to trigger Circle to Search.
  
  https://github.com/parallelcc/MiCTS
  
  That works, but I can't activate it by gesture and the tile doesn't show the app I want, only the tile pulldown, so it's useless.
  
  But either way that's not the function I was thinking of. What's the one on the task view that lets you select text or images? Or is there another way to invoke the "select text or images on the screen" functionality?

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