Manage your preferences for web pages in the Google app

When you search the web with the Google app, you can open web pages within the app or using an external browser. When you open web pages in the app, you can:

  • Open search result links faster by staying in the app.
  • Copy a link, share a link, or reopen a link in a browser.

Open webpages in the app

  1. On your iPhone or iPad, open the Google app Google Search.
  2. Do a search.
  3. To open a search results link in the app, either:
    • Tap the link.
    • Touch and hold the link. Then tap Open or Open in new page.

Share, copy, save, or open in browser

After you open a webpage in the Google app, you can use that page's link.

  1. On your iPhone or iPad, open a webpage in the Google app Google Search.
  2. Tap Share  Share.
  3. Pick an action. For example:
    • Share link: To share the link via an app on your device, like Gmail, tap the app.
    • Copy link: Tap Copy URL. Then paste the link wherever you'd like.
    • Open in a web browser: Tap Open in [browser]. Then you can use browser features, like bookmarks.

Tip: You can also copy any link in the Google app. Touch and hold the link, and then tap Copy.

Learn about the search.app domain

Search.app is a Google domain. It makes it easier for you to share links with your contacts across apps and operating systems.

Send a search.app shortlink

Search.app is used to shorten links generated from the Google app. Links sent from the Google app are automatically shortened and begin with 'search.app.'

Click a search.app domain

When you click a search.app shortlink, you will be redirected to open it in the Google app.

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