How to remove Google search bar?

[Amandaville]

How do I remove the Google search bar at the top of the home page? I want to replace it with the Duck Duck Go Search Bar. Long press does nothing.

Android 8.0

EDITED: I am editing this post because I cannot find a way to reply within the thread. I can see B. Diddy's reply but there is no reply button for me. Only "EDIT QUESTION". I have looked over the page 10 times and refreshed it twice.

Thanks B. Diddy. Great Idea! I installed Nova Launcher and I spent most of the afternoon learning the settings and configuration options. I love it.

 

[B. Diddy]

Welcome to Android Central! Which phone? You generally can't remove the Google search bar widget on most stock launchers, but if you can if you install a 3rd party launcher like Nova.

 

[Amandaville]

Well that's strange... After editing the original post, I now have a reply box. I've never seen this in a forum before.

 

[Amandaville]

It seems after my original post, I was redirected to:

https://forums.androidcentral.com/general-help-how/881289-how-remove-google-search-bar.html?mn_qa=1

But after editing the original post, I was redirected to:

https://forums.androidcentral.com/g...how-remove-google-search-bar.html#post6216425

The difference being ?mn_qa=1 at the end of the first url.

I'm simply posting it here so someone can find the bug in the forum application and fix it.

 

[B. Diddy]

It's not an actual bug -- it's the Ask A Question format. I'm really not sure why it comes up sometimes, but you're correct -- the way to get rid of that format is to delete that string of characters after "html".

 

[kramer5150]

I always found that search bar annoying. In 6.0 I just dragged it up and was able to remove it from my home screen.

Curious is this a "thing" with Oreo in general?... or just the OPs setup?

 

[Amandaville]

I always found that search bar annoying. In 6.0 I just dragged it up and was able to remove it from my home screen.

Curious is this a "thing" with Oreo in general?... or just the OPs setup?

I think it's Oreo. I'm on a Xiaomi Mi A1 with stock Android.