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Recent App List not showing up anymore / Circle to Search not working at all

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When in any app, since a few days the Recent App List is not showing up anymore when pressing the square button. This means it's suddenly impossible to easily switch between running apps.

Annoying workaround I found: Return to start screen by pressing the round button. Then pressing the square button correctly opens the Recent App List.

Haven’t seen any OS or Niagara updates being installed recently. Hence wonder what has happened to trigger this buggy behavior. Also couldn't identify any setting which I might have mistakenly enabled and which would trigger such a weird behavior.

When disabling Niagara and enabling Poco Standard Launcher everything works fine. Reboot didn't improve the situation.

Pressing the round works fine. Same for pressing the triangle button.

However holding down the round button should open the Circle to Search functionality but it doesn't. This feature never worked, though. It works with Poco Standard Launcher.

This oocurs on Poco X7 Pro running on HyperOS OS 3.0.5.0

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Posted by Mark Wehrmann ·
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  • Te Yang

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    Aug 14

    This is a much needed feature, as I use Circle to search so many times a day to do translation and image search etc. It is the one thing stopping me from getting Pro …

    Please fix it and I will gladly pay for Pro.

  • Mark Wehrmann

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    May 9

    Update:

    There was an update of Xiaomi HyperOS which put version to 3.0.300.0

    Now Recent Apps function works as desired.

    Circle to search still not working. It popped up once, though, but than never again.

    When switching standard launcher to Poco Launcher it works fine.

    In Niagara it seems that it wants to open as you can feel a short vibration which isn't there when you disable the function. But seemingly the overlay for the function seems to get surpressed by Niagara.

    • Mark Wehrmann

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      May 9

      Interesting:

      If you enable Poco Launcher as Standard, then start Niagara Launcher, IT IS indeed principally possible to start Circle to Search out of Niagara.

      Only when you then set Niagara as Standard Launcher it stops opening Circle to Search on pressing the Home Button long.