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There is also a long shot ‘Hail Mary’ play that you can attempt but it does have some unintended possible side effects. From your home screen, long-press on the Play Store icon and tap on App info. Press Storage & cache and Clear storage. This may or may not help but keep in mind that deleting your Play Store storage could negatively impact app updates. While this is an option, it might not be worth trying.
A dedicated search tab is coming to the Play Store (L) although some users have lost their search bar and have no search tab (R)
So the zillion-dollar question (it used to be a million dollar question, but inflation, well, you know) is how does this help Play Store users? That’s a good question as Google does have a reputation of making moves just to make a move. It’s not as though Google is using the space where the search field used to be found to add a new feature.
