Google to soon fix accidental Circle to Search activations

The Galaxy S24 series introduced Circle to Search (CtS), a feature that allows you to search for anything on the screen by just drawing a circle around it. Currently, you can access CtS by long-pressing the home button or the navigation handle. However, people have been complaining that CtS gets activated accidentally quite a lot. Well, Google says that it is aware of the issue and the company is working on solving it.

In the latest Made by Google podcast, the team behind Circle to Search said, “We still have further to go, and we’re working a lot on making sure it’s triggered when you want, [and] it’s not triggered when you don’t want” (via 9To5Google). Unfortunately, there’s no information about when Google will make the improvement.

We recently talked about ways Google can improve CtS, including allowing people to access CtS by pressing the side button, and on devices with S-Pen, showing the CtS option in Air Command and allowing them to summon CtS by pressing the stylus button. We hope that Google is listening to us and offers those improvements in the future. In the meantime, you can check out other One UI 6.1 features in our video below.