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Why did this shortcut got removed? Was really handy and useful!

We've passed along your input to our internal teams, who are evaluating it for a future release. We're closing this issue for now, and thanks for sending us your feedback.

This was a really poor UX choice here by removing this shortcut. The workflow now requires the user to add a quick tile to the priority row and displace other tiles, which could also be just as important.

Please add this shortcut back. I used it all the time and it's really annoying that it's been removed.

Why would you silently remove a handy shortcut and call it "intended Behavior" when users want it back?
I cannot think of anything that is better because the shortcut was removed, so why not simply add it back?

Google, so many people want this simple feature that won't cost you any big resources and you still refuse??

Intended behaviour?
What was the gain in removing this???

Meanwhile, tapping on the cell network provider name just slightly to the right of the time, opens Network Settings in the same way Alarms previously opened by tapping on the time.

#10 oh man... You're right. That's so stupid. Why did they take away the other shortcut then????

I kinda cared about this but the alarm tile is working properly now. Just use that 🤷‍♂️

I want it back too, use it all the time on Android 11.

Bring it baaaaaaack !! Or please make the UX designer who made that decision call me, I can't understand why or how this shortcut disappeared....

I also would like this back!

Just clarifying that somewhere on a roadmap a task appeared: "remove the really useful, nearly invisible, very simple shortcut where tapping the clock from the notification tray opens the clock application" and then a Product Manager was like, yeah, let's put that on the top of the pile and cut out that cruft. Can't have useful code gumming up the works!" And someone said "we have data that shows no one uses this so we might as well just remove it to hit our quota of 1 line in 2 lines out" and that was that?

Multiple professionals were involved in taking time and energy to remove useful code that couldn't have introduced any significant unit testing surface area, and these same adults felt that this was a worthwhile use of everyone's time?

Yes, please bring it back!

You guys don't enjoy opening the Clock application from the all apps screen instead of consistent, quick, and easy access through a shortcut? But don't you want to experience the interface?

this: https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/194080895#comment16
bad move removing this useful little shortcut

Please add this back. Why make things more difficult

I want this back too.

I want this back as well!

Please restore the functionality

Couldn't care less if it's intended behavior, it's bad design and these words are from people reporting their feelings on this intended behavior. I'm intended to report this behavior as a bug because it is so frivolously needless of a change and does not yield any positive user experience with it's removal.

Thanks! 🛐

Agreed, I was really surprised when I tried to open my clock and it didn't work. I use alarms and timers a ton and this easily triples the amount of time it takes to launch it.

Lol at intended behavior. Whoever made this change sucks as a human being.

+1 for bringing it back - it seems surprising to remove the functionality without providing a better alternative or reusing the action for some other feature.

I don't want to have to include the Clock as an icon on my home screen.

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Please bring this back. Or at least the ability to have an alarm shortcut in the pull-down menu. Was there any UX study on this change - seems like a weird thing to make a conscious effort to remove?

Guys please create a new request and post here a link to it. This one is closed.

The intended behavior is to be less usable? Brilliant!

In addition to the ~150 users here that don't like this tiny feature removed, here are more:
https://www.reddit.com/r/GooglePixel/comments/qk2xzd/am_i_the_only_one_a_little_annoyed_clicking_the/

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Why do new versions of Android keep removing functionality?

Used this several times a day to set alarms without taking up an entire icon slot, please return this.

Would be wonderful to add this back.

PLEASE BRING THIS BACK!!!

Not sure why this was taken away. Can you guys please bring it back? Stop taking away functionality for awful looks.

yeah just noticed this, was a handy and sensible little shortcut that I would very much like back

I would agree with bringing this back please. Seems to have had nothing but negative responses since its removal

Just upgraded to android 12 and am now having this issue. I used this feature daily, sometimes several times a day. Please bring this back.

Used to use this daily. Sad it was quietly removed with no replacement functionality implemented. +1 this issue

I want this back too

Please! Bring it back.

bring this feature back.

This definitely should come back, why are all the useful shortcuts being removed in favour of quick tiles?
These are poor design choices and feels like we're moving backwards! The Google pay button is also super unnecessary compared to holding down the power button

Just piling on - updated to 12 today, went to try to open my clock through this shortcut, and thought it was a bug. You didn't even replace it with something different - just removed it altogether. Why? Who was this hurting?

What a bunch of idiots at google, good grief. Bring it back already.

Now more than 1000 users on reddit seeing a single post there have agreed that it should not have been removed...

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+1, I use this all the time, so annoying that it disappeared

+1 used this daily as well. Bring it back please

What can possibly be gained by taking this away? Please bring it back...

Fumbling around to open the timer when boiling eggs leaves egg all over the face of Android 12.  Please reconsider and return the shortcut - and it may be useful for some to have it available as an editable option on the top swipedown menu.

+1 really miss this shortcut

This was the first thing I noticed after upgrading to Android 12. I want this shortcut back.

Ahhhh

I would also like this back, please.

Bad ux choice. Bring back.

Please bring it back!

please bring this back

Please bring this feature back.

Please bring back ability to reach Clock app via pressing the time on the status bar.

This is the "feature" I used the most and now it's been removed.

Please bring this back! And the calendar when clicking on the date. I used it all the time.

I'm holding off updating because I heard of this. Sad to see it is true

*sigh*

Yep, we want it back. Thanks

Bring it back

please bring back the ability to open alarms WITHOUT having to open menus to click on it -

Please bring it back.  Makes no sense to remove such a useful shortcut.

Another vote to bring it back.  This is literally the only update from Android that has ever reduced OS functionality.

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Please bring it back.  Why has this been marked as "Won't fix (Intended behaviour)"?  Why is this intended behaviour?  Please explain, or better yet just bring it back.

Why won't this be brought back... It was a useful feature.... In the new update clicking the time SHOULD open the clock - and the date the calendar. There is no reason for this not to be kept for continuity??

Hey google guys, wanna hint? Just create a new task with this feature like it is your idea, people happy, you get raise, aight?

Give me my entire classic UI back. I need to click to many buttons to accomplish what should be 2 clicks.

Would trade any and all improvements made in this update for this one feature back

Used this feature daily and today I've reached the point of annoyance to actually bother commenting. Please update with this feature back, no idea why you'd remove something so intuitive for a multiple step approach.

This may be "by design", but that doesn't stop the design from being terrible. There is no logical reason to remove this function, which worked well and was very convenient. It wasn't in the way of anything else. The only result of removing it is to upset the people who used it and liked it.

So the real question here is: Why do you hate us so?

No point in making an argument. Bullshit apple like move.

Please reconsider and add this back to android. It is silly not to be able to click on the time and get time related options. Seeing the alarm from the home screen is seriously useful

perhaps replying to this thread every day and starting duplicate threads should also be intended behavior. Sure, you'd rather we didn't do that, but oh well, now you know how your user base feels. :)

Bring it back.

We can now press on the At A Glance date to go directly to Calendar in S3B1.220218.004. I think that's good enough. :)

DISAGREE strongly with previous comment. NOT GOOD ENOUGH

I don't even know where to find "At A Glance" date.  If it's not as simple as tapping the time in the status bar then it's not good enough.

Agreed.  Please just bring back the original shortcut

#87 I do not mean to be rude, but how is being able to open the calendar from a widget a substitute for being able to open alarms by tapping the time in the notification panel from anywhere?

@comment#91 , comment#89 and comment#88 

The At A Glance widget is the default widget that's natively integrated into the Pixel Launcher. It's activated by default as well.

You can tap on the date on the home screen from the At A Glance widget (located at the top of the home screen) to quickly get into the calendar. It's really not that hard and very quick to get there.

I still think the old method was smarter and quicker. But the current method is, in fact, good enough.

Dear "he...@gmail.com", I think you may have the wrong thread.

Nobody here is talking about accessing the calendar.

The shortcut we want back allows us to access the clock and alarms.

The clock and calendar are vastly different things.

@comment#93 Uh... OH.... Yeah, I mixed things up here. I restarred it. OMG, Google being dumb as every so often with this one. I'm sorry. Yeah, it's unacceptable!

terrible design choice

No it wasn't. Look, don't just say something is changed when nothing was
done. The original answer to the ticket was that removing a feature was
done as intended. I totally forgot about it until now, and now I'm
bothered.

On Thu, Mar 24, 2022, 11:06 PM <buganizer-system@google.com> wrote:

Add the shortcut back

Totally agree as a UX Designer that this was not a good move for your user experience. You had something that was used and loved and then you removed it. You have the code and the knowledge to put it back in place.

Very disappointed that you removed the most important function on my phone. It redundant to add a time widget and have the time displayed on the top bar.

Bring this feature back. It's ridiculous that it was removed in the first place.

Awful UX choices are all over android 12. Please, bring it back.

Please bring it back, such a USEFUL feature that I used multiple times daily!

and it is literally 1 line of code, unbelievable

Why, after almost a year of continual and unique posts requesting reinstating the "button", is this still in Won't Fix status?  It's not a Bug - it's a downright liberty that so so reflects so much of Google's lacklustre responsiveness to customers' requests and very reasonable observations.

PLEASE bring this back, I still haven't gotten used to the 'workaround' a YEAR LATER even with using it every day. The original design was so so so convenient

Is it really so hard to fix this. Nobody likes this change, just change it back already. It helped nobody at all to have changed this, but hurt so many. Why is Android 12 such garbage?

 I'm still waiting for this issue to be resolved. I should be able to enter the clock app by tapping the clock displayed at the top of the screen in the notification bar.

I really hope Android 13 fixes this. That should be out in just a couple months, I imagine. Sure hope it brings back this essential feature. I should be able to enter the clock app by tapping the clock displayed at the top of the screen in the notification bar.

I want this feature to exist forever

Bring it back please

Pls bring it back, its one of the futures I miss with the new Pixel , its really good one used multiple times in a day for me.  

Still a missing feature considered a bug or a failure of UX consideration. Waiting on Android devs to fix something they broke is unlikely to ever bear fruit. Sticking with v11 since it doesn't have this and other UX features broken.

removing this was stupid and makes me annoyed

This change makes zero sense.  It had to be decided by an engineer rather than someone who is responsible or user interface or accessibility.  I am temporarily using a Pixel 2 until my new phone arrives and it is so nice having this little shortcut that is missing from the Pixel 4 I was using.  

Another vote to bring back that feature

Fixed in A14 beta 3, thx!

Hello Google!  Any movement on these requests yet?  For general consumption?  I'm not playing with 14.3beta.
??

confirming, works in v14beta3

OMG it's back! Thank you Google for listening to us! ❤️

Thanks :)

Holy crap thank you