Updated Dec 02, 2025

About the choice screen

On March 26, 2025, the Japan Fair Trade Commission announced that some of Google’s services have been designated under the Mobile Software Competition Act (MSCA), a new piece of legislation designed to foster competition and ensure fair and open digital markets. Later this year, Google will make the following changes to comply with its MSCA obligations requiring it to show choice screens: (i) introduce a new search choice screen on Android smartphones; and (ii) show a search choice screen on Chrome on iOS smartphones.

Search choice screen on Android

The user is required to choose one search provider from the choice screen during setup on Android. The effect of a user selecting a search provider from the choice screen is to (i) set the search provider in a home screen search box on Android to the selected provider, (ii) set the default search provider in Chrome (if installed) to the selected provider, and (iii) install the search app of the selected provider (if not already installed).

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Illustrative visual of the search engine choice screen in Chrome on Android and desktop.

Search choice screen on Chrome on iOS

The iOS user is required to choose one search provider from the choice screen during setup of their Chrome installation or profile or after updating to the relevant Chrome version. The search provider selected from the choice screen will be set as the default search engine in Chrome on the device.

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Illustrative visual of the search engine choice screen in Chrome on iOS and desktop.