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  • Re: Another question aboutmy wife's new phone

    From Andy Burns@21:1/5 to Tim Slattery on Tue Jan 16 17:02:53 2024
    Tim Slattery wrote:

    The bottom row on the main screen does not change when you swipe to
    bring up screen number two or three or whatever. That line is for apps
    that you want to see on every screen. That's the way it has always
    worked for me.

    But on my wife's new phone, that line contains the icons of the most
    recently used apps, not the important apps that you always want to
    see. What's going on? Is there a way to toggle that behaviour?

    The behaviour on your phone sounds like the Google Pixel launcher,
    possibly the "stock" AOSP launcher, she can install the Pixel one, or a
    clone of it. or one of dozens/hundreds of alternatives

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  • From Tim Slattery@21:1/5 to All on Tue Jan 16 11:17:20 2024
    This is not particularly a problem, but I don't get why it happens.

    The bottom row on the main screen does not change when you swipe to
    bring up screen number two or three or whatever. That line is for apps
    that you want to see on every screen. That's the way it has always
    worked for me.

    But on my wife's new phone, that line contains the icons of the most
    recently used apps, not the important apps that you always want to
    see. What's going on? Is there a way to toggle that behaviour?

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    Tim Slattery
    timslattery <at> utexas <dot> edu

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  • From Arno Welzel@21:1/5 to All on Wed Jan 17 17:55:05 2024
    Tim Slattery, 2024-01-16 17:17:

    The bottom row on the main screen does not change when you swipe to
    bring up screen number two or three or whatever. That line is for apps
    that you want to see on every screen. That's the way it has always
    worked for me.

    But on my wife's new phone, that line contains the icons of the most
    recently used apps, not the important apps that you always want to
    see. What's going on? Is there a way to toggle that behaviour?

    The home screen of Android devices is managed by the "Launcher" app
    which is installed on the device. If you don't like the behaviour as it
    is, you may just try another one - there are many available, like these:

    <https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.teslacoilsw.launcher>

    <https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ginlemon.flowerfree>

    <https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=newer.galaxya.launcher>


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    Arno Welzel
    https://arnowelzel.de

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