On Saturday night (PT), a lot of Android customers are seeing the Google app repeatedly crash (“Google retains stopping”) once they try to look.
Opening the Google app through the homescreen icon will lead to a crash. You see the app briefly load earlier than you’re returned to the homescreen. The Google Search bar widget momentarily exhibits your previous queries earlier than crashing.
The Pixel Launcher search bar continues to work for machine lookup, however coming into a question briefly hundreds the outcomes web page earlier than crashing.
Google Uncover (to the left of your homescreen) gained’t launch, whereas tapping the Voice Search microphone additionally crashes.
After repeatedly trying to launch the app, Android exhibits a “Google retains stopping” message.
We’re seeing this crashing problem with the latest stable (15.35) and beta (15.36) variations of the Google Search app on Android 15, 14, and (presumably) earlier.
Gemini and Google Lens proceed to work, whereas google.com by way of Chrome for Android works usually. No different platforms are impacted.
As such, we imagine this to be a Google app on Android-specific problem. Google Search — together with all different first-party providers, like YouTube, Drive, and so on. — proceed to perform usually.
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