Google Now, remember it?
Back in the day, it occupied the screen to the left of your phone’s home screen where, currently, your information page or the Google News feed sits.
With it came the Google Now launcher which we gladly installed on our phones (after Google offered it on the Play Store) and which was the default launcher on a number of devices starting with Google’s Nexus smartphones (specifically the Nexus 5, remember it?).
Due to the usual changes that happen over time and Google’s legendary product axe, Google Now and the Google Now launcher have been sidelined for the last 6 years as the world – and Google – moved on to other things. For Google’s own things, the “other things” have been the Pixel launcher that can be found on them while, for the rest of us, it’s been a mix of several things.
Now, the Google Now Launcher is bidding us goodbye. A quick sampling of screenshots shared by users over the last few days shows that this month (April) is the last one that anyone still holding on to the dated launcher has to use it before they are routed to their device’s default launcher.
