Android app now stores offline searches runs them when a signal returns

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Published 18 Jan 2017

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Stop me if you’ve heard this one: You’re trying to read a news story about Facebook or look up the latest rumors about the Galaxy S8, you hit a dead spot. You tap reload a couple of times, wait a few seconds, give up.

feels your pain, it doesn’t want you to miss out on valuable information just because your connection flaked out. th a new update rolling out to the Android app, your searches will be saved delivered as soon as your connection returns. As search project manager Shekhar Sharad writes in a blog post, “The app will work behind-the-scenes to detect when a connection is available again deliver your search results once completed.”

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The app will remember any searches you make when your connection dies notify you when they’ve been completed.

The only rub is that you’ll need to remember to use the app rather than Chrome for your on-the-go Googling. though promises that the new feature will have minimal effect on battery life data usage, if you’d like to turn it off, however, there’s a new ways retry searches switch in the Offline search Settings that will disable it. And you can also see any delete any pending queries using the new Manage searches option in the sidebar. Finally, you can opt to have a notification alert you that the search has been completed.

The update is currently rolling out to users, but if you aren’t seeing it, you can download the -signed A from AMirror.

The impact on you at home: Actually, there’s more of an impact away from your home. Occasionally spotty E connections are a problem all phones have, while this update doesn’t do anything to alleviate the issue, it does help make them that much more bearable. And it might make us use the app more to boot.