How to remove icons from the cell phone screen
– Take a look at these tips, tricks, and solution you can use to make your life much easier with your devices whenever problems arrive and complications which you may find difficult to deal with.
If the home screen or desktop of your cell phone is full of icons of pre-installed applications, shortcuts that are added by themselves every time you install an application from the Play Store or even widgets (like the Google bar), your first option is to delete them manually. The second is to disable the feature that automatically adds icons to apps that are installed.
Remove icons manually
To clean the desktop and delete one by one the shortcuts or “shortcuts” that are filling the “home”, you just have to hold your finger for a couple of seconds on the icon you want to remove. The “Remove” or “Delete” option will be displayed, sometimes as a contextual menu and others as a trash can at the top to which you must drag the icon (without releasing your finger).
Shortcuts add themselves!
Pictures above: Block creation of new icons in Microsoft Launcher
If icons from new applications that you install are being added to the desktop automatically, you can also disable this behavior to avoid having to delete those shortcuts manually as indicated above.
Currently this is done from the device’s “launcher”. Generally you should press and hold on an empty area on the home screen. Tap on «Settings». Finally look for “Home screen” and deactivate the option “Add new applications to the home screen.”
Previously, the Play Store was also the cause of this behavior, something that was disabled from its own settings, «General», option «Add icon to home screen for new applications». Such an option no longer exists in the modern versions of this store. If your device comes with another app store, such as the Galaxy Store, you should also check its settings for similar functionality. This can be the cause of duplicate icons after installing applications.
Add icon to home screen
If you deleted an icon and want to add it back to the desktop, you just have to look for it in the menu or “drawer” of applications. Hold down on it and you will automatically jump to the home screen where you can “drop” it. If you can’t find the icon in the app drawer, you’ve probably hidden the app or uninstalled it.
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