Ever felt nervous giving your phone to your kid or to a stranger to make a call? If you're rocking an Android, app pinning is ...

Sometimes, after an Android update, your home screen layout may change. Here’s how to adjust it back to your preference: Go to Settings: Select "Display" and then "Home Screen".

TickTick secured its spot on my Android home screen because it goes above and beyond the typical to-do list app. First, it's a cross-platform solution with native apps on most platforms.

However, when you force-stop an app on Android 15, remember to launch it directly or indirectly; otherwise, its home screen widget will not work. You also cannot interact with the widget until then.

Home screen widgets are a staple of the Android operating system. Adding widgets is a fairly simple process once you know where they're located. The Google Play Store is filled to the brim with ...

Widgets are like mini-apps that sit right on your Android phone 's home screen, giving you quick updates or shortcuts to features without having to dive into the app itself. They can include ...

Android 15 will disable the home screen widget of any app that you kill. This prevents the app from effectively still running when you’re attempting to force-stop it.

One of those tiny bugs in Android 16 QPR1 has to do with new apps. Normally, installing a new app from the Play Store means the icon will appear on the home screen once the installation is finished.

One of the main reasons I started using Android (version 1.5 with an HTC Hero phone) was because it ran a version of the Linux kernel. I knew that fact would lead to a thing I value: flexibility ...

How To Remove The Google Search Bar From Your Home Screen If Google isn't your primary search engine or your home screen is crowded with apps and widgets, you might decide to declutter by removing ...

Android has launched a new feature that I honestly didn’t know people ever wanted. There’s now a quick way to jump back to the main home screen if you’re on a secondary home page. Before the addition ...