The Pixel Launcher might lastly present full app names in your app drawer

Abstract

• Android 15 Beta 1.2 brings a brand new toggle to the Pixel Launcher to show the complete names of apps in search outcomes and the app drawer.
• This function has been in improvement since early 2022 however might lastly go reside with Android 15 this fall.
• Customers will discover this new toggle contained in the Apps checklist settings choice, located throughout the Pixel Launcher’s Residence settings web page.

Android 15 Beta 1.2 arrived simply days after Beta 1.1 earlier this week. Whereas the most recent beta comprises a bevy of bug fixes left over from the earlier launch, it seems that Google can also be eager on making another long-overdue changes to the system, particularly the Pixel Launcher.

Because of some digging by Android skilled Mishaal Rahman (through Android Authority), we’re studying that the Pixel Launcher could lastly enable customers to show the complete names of purposes within the app drawer. In its present type, names within the app grid are shrunk down to save lots of area. However in Android 15 Beta 1.2, Rahman discovered that the Pixel Launcher can show the complete title of the app by leveraging the area just under it.

The newly added Apps checklist settings web page and the devoted toggle

There’s even a brand new Apps checklist settings web page inside Residence settings containing the toggle to Present lengthy app names. The corresponding textual content explains how apps with longer names will leverage two strains to show their full title, with the caveat that this transformation would apply to the apps checklist and search outcomes. This implies this two-line methodology will not apply to the apps on your private home display, as Rahman notes.

Pixel Launcher customers can navigate to Residence settings by long-pressing an empty space on their dwelling display and tapping Residence settings from the onscreen popup. The brand new Apps checklist settings web page is sandwiched between the Search settings choice and the Enabledwelling display rotation toggle. Curiously, the brand new Apps checklist settings web page additionally comprises the Swipe as much as begin search toggle, which in Android 14 resides inside Residence settings > Search settings, as you’ll be able to see above. It is value mentioning that we first noticed the brand new Apps checklist settings web page final month, additionally due to Rahman’s enter.

The outcomes are fairly spectacular

For folks whose app drawers are full of longer-named apps, even shrinking down the app grid to 5×5 does not assist. With this in thoughts, a toggle to make sure the complete app names are proven always inside search outcomes and the app drawer is a superb addition. After all, not all people wants that further line of their app drawer, as familiarity with icons is usually sufficient to determine an app, even when the names are shortened.

It is at the moment unclear if Google plans to show app names in two strains throughout the dwelling display as properly, however because it stands proper now, that is solely supported throughout the app drawer and search outcomes. Google has been engaged on this function since early 2022, as Rahman factors out, so it has been a very long time coming.