{"id":31456,"date":"2024-03-17T12:40:58","date_gmt":"2024-03-17T09:40:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/31456\/google-phone-app-loses-the\/"},"modified":"2024-03-17T12:40:59","modified_gmt":"2024-03-17T09:40:59","slug":"google-phone-app-loses-the","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/?p=31456","title":{"rendered":"Google Phone app loses the Nearby Places search feature on Android"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google Phone app loses the Nearby Places search feature on Android\u060c<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Unsurprisingly, the Phone by Google dialer app is losing the search for nearby places feature on Android.  The change was announced by Google in early February and the decision is now implemented.<\/p>\n<p>As spotted by <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/9to5google.com\/2024\/02\/02\/google-phone-nearby-places\/\" class=\"external\">9to5google<\/a>, the ability to search for businesses in the Phone by Google app has been removed.  Instead of the &#8220;Search Contacts &#038; Locations&#8221; field at the top of the app, Google added a &#8220;Search Contacts&#8221; field that lets users search for contacts, not locations.<\/p>\n<p>Not only that, but it appears that \u201cNearby Places\u201d has also been completely removed from the settings, but this makes sense since this feature was supposed to use your location when searching for places.<\/p>\n<p>According to Google, the decision to remove search for nearby places was based on the fact that \u201c<span style=\"font-style: italic;\">only a very small number of people use this feature<\/span>.\u201d  Additionally, Google claims that the \u201c<span style=\"font-style: italic;\">the vast majority of users go to Google Search or Maps when looking for business phone numbers<\/span>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When revealing the change to the Phone by Google app, the search giant said the feature would be removed &#8220;<span style=\"font-style: italic;\">In the coming months<\/span>.\u201d  Well, it looks like the latest update turns words into reality, so expect to lose this feature very soon if you haven&#39;t already.\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google Phone app loses the Nearby Places search feature on Android\u060c Unsurprisingly, the Phone by Google dialer app is losing the search for nearby places feature on Android. The change was announced by Google in early February and the decision is now implemented. As spotted by 9to5google, the ability to search for businesses in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31457,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[396,277,362,70,946,3037,398,2834,937],"class_list":["post-31456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-android","tag-app","tag-feature","tag-google","tag-loses","tag-nearby","tag-phone","tag-places","tag-search"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31456"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31456\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31458,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31456\/revisions\/31458"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/31457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}