How to stop Google widget add pop up

w001tly wrote:

Is anyone from Apple going to acknowledge this problem and fix it? It is from the ios update.

Apple isn’t going to acknowledge anything in this user to user forum. And it isn’t an Apple problem, it is a Google “feature”. The only way to stop it is to change search engines to other than Google or placate Google by installing the Google widget. There are many other search engine options. DuckDuckGo has the distinct advantage that it doesn’t track you or tell businesses what you have searched for.

Easy solution Google is definitely the default search engine for Safari it was the default on my iPhone 12Pro So that answer isn’t rite. How to fix this annoying pop up is to go to Settings>Safari> and change the default search engine. Should look like this. Also Google automatically blocks hundreds of search results that don’t fit their company’s bs standards and people pay lots of money to Google to make sure their links are first on search results. So Google can kick rocks.

Glad to hear I am not the only one on the same boat.

I contacted Apple support and all they said was to contact Google since this is programmed from their end. I even tried to escalate this to the engineering team but was met with a, “sorry we can’t do that”.

it appears, DuckDuckGo is the only solution within reach.

neilboardman wrote:

The only way I have found to stop this process is to change my search engine to DuckDuckGo, obviously Apple are receiving Millions upon Milions of dollars from Google to allow the to use Google as the default search engine on all Apple products.

What nonsense! Go to Settings/Safari and you can chose whatever default search engine you want. And on a new iPhone, iPad or Mac Google is not the default; it is DuckDuckGo, so your conspiracy theory is now blown to smithereens.

neilboardman wrote:

I have Safari set to block pop ups but Google itself is ignoring the blocker. I don’t want the widget and will never install it, but Google asks every time I do a search.

One step more:

On the same screen (Settings -> Safari) -> scroll to Fraudulent Website Warning -> turn it On.

A question:

Do you also use Google Chrome browser or the app ever installed?

This issue is not a google problem. It does not exist except in iOS 14 and later. Also installing the widget does not make it go away. You should research something before you respond with incorrect information. Changing the search engine to duck duck go for example makes the exact same widget suggestion for duck duck go changing doesn’t work. Again if you have iOS 13 or earlier it does not pop up.

Except that Google is NOT Apple’s default search engine, as I said.

I am beyond frustrated that this issue is still existing on my iPhone. What's the matter of a SMARTphone with those awesome "ML Cores" if this popup appears every time after closing? Should clearly indicate that I do not want to install this stupid widget.

Do something.

Is anyone from Apple going to acknowledge this problem and fix it? It is from the ios update.