Prevent new apps from being added to the Home screen on Android
If you keep your Android smartphone's home screen clean and stylish. But Google Play Store keeps adding the shortcuts of the newly installed app automatically and ruins the home screen. Sometimes some updated apps are automatically added to the home screen as well.
It's really annoying and sometimes it adds more pages to the home screen and makes it more cluttered. This feature can also be very useful if there are many applications installed on your smartphone. It will add the newly installed app to the home screen so that you don't have to find it in the app drawer between all these apps.
There is a feature that allows you to turn it off completely so that you don't add additional shortcuts to your smartphone's home screen.
Steps to prevent new apps from being added to the Home screen
- Unlock your smartphone, Press and hold on the empty space on the homepage.
- Select Preferences from bottom to rocker.
- Once in Preferences, go to homepage.
- deactivate Add an icon to the home screen switch from there.
This will disable the smartphone to automatically add new icons to your smartphone and you will be able to install apps from Play Store freely. If you want to activate this feature, you can activate it from the same steps and activate Add an icon to the home screen to fall over.
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This is how you can disable the smartphone to add newly installed apps from Google play store to add them to the home screen. If this tip has helped you, we have a lot of other tips for your Android smartphone. Follow us on our social media accounts to be updated with these new tips.
