The Google Search App stopped working last night (Saturday night) for a few hours. Google was quick to fix it in the middle of the night but by then, hundreds, if not, thousands of complaints flooded the support forums and social media.

As Android Authority explains, “the Google Play Integrity API lets apps check whether your account is ‘unlicensed’, meaning you didn’t install or buy the app from Google Play. More importantly, the app can then show a remediation dialog that tells you they have to download the app from Google Play to continue using it.”

A large number of Android users are seeing the Google app repeatedly crash ("Google keeps stopping") when they attempt to

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Google app on Android crashed repeatedly, affecting search functionality. Issue resolved by Google within hours. Users experienced widespread disruptions across multiple devices and Android versions.

Google today confirmed that it has fixed the Google app bug on Android devices that caused a worldwide outage. According to the details shared by the company on its Google Search Status Dashboard, it has rolled out the update to all Android smartphones across the globe.