Search is YouTube Music's newest bottom bar resident
YouTube Music has introduced a change to its bottom bar by replacing the Explore icon with a Search button. This update is being rolled out to users on version 9.21 for Android and 9.22 for iOS. Although the change aims to enhance one-handed usage, users may still need to reach higher on the screen for search results.
- ▪YouTube Music has replaced the Explore icon with a Search button in its bottom bar.
- ▪The update is currently rolling out to users on version 9.21 for Android and 9.22 for iOS.
- ▪The search icon was previously located in the top-right corner of the app.
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| Original publisher | Android Police |
| Canonical URL | https://www.androidpolice.com/youtube-music-moves-search-to-the-bottom-bar/ |
| Publication time | Wed, 03 Jun 2026 16:12:48 GMT |
| Retrieval time | 2026-06-03T16:15:11.596Z |
| Last seen | 2026-06-03T16:15:11.596Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
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| Cluster logic | Grouped by semantic title/content similarity across sources within a rolling window. Same-publisher template collisions are excluded from coverage comparison. |
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| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
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| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
Basis: Derived from the published RSS/Atom feed. Contact: [email protected]. Reviewed: 2026-07-24.
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