Brave has gotten rid of the small search bar widget in favor of keeping the other one which is far too massive to fit on my home screen. I am requesting the old widget to come back.

Also wanting this back. Created an account just to say it.

I have been reporting this issue for over a month. It appears the change is now reaching the stable version [image] Brave Beta and Nightly only offering two widget options Mobile Support This isn’t exactly a technical issue—it feels more like a deliberate dev choice. But …

[Screenshot_2025-06-01-00-06-28-821-edit_com.miui.home] Its horrible. Please, bring back the old one

my home screen widget disappeared yesterday, I thought I removed it by mistake. So today I went to add from the widgets there were only 2 brave widgets available; both massive. Why would they even remove the widget. This is just absurd.

Android widget issues: ‘ https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues?q=android%20widget%20is%3Aissue ’ [Android] Remove search widget opened 08:17PM - 21 Apr 25 UTC (UTC) closed 02:38PM - 23 Apr 25 UTC (UTC) …

This is happening to all android/iOS devices on the new brave app version.

yes, also it is very ugly, i made a new account just to support this petition, make available the more minimalistic version again

Based on lurking around widget issue posts for a while, I feel that these requests will most likely fall on deaf ears.* They don’t seem to understand that many of us have honed the visual aspects and arranged our screens over the years to the point of muscle memory. I do realize that this will stri…

I also just had the minimalist search bar disappear from my home screen. I don’t like the other bulky search bars so please bring the minimalist version back. Just a search box with virtually no border. Basically like the search box that Chrome still has. Which search bar in the screenshot below do…

I complained about this decision a long time ago and the team didn’t pay attention. [image] Brave Beta and Nightly only offering two widget options Mobile Support This isn’t exactly a technical issue—it feels more like a deliberate dev choice. But slashing options from 5 …

Brave Android App Version 1.79.118 gets rid of the small search bar widget

Brave Search Search Support

brumac53 May 31, 2025, 9:41pm 3

I have been reporting this issue for over a month. It appears the change is now reaching the stable version

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Brave Android App Version 1.79.118 gets rid of the small search bar widget

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