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Subject: Re: Sudden screen re-arrangement-OT
Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2024 09:56:41 -0500
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On Mon, 18 Mar 2024 11:25:43 -0700, David Oseas
<doseas{nospam}@usa.net> wrote:

>On 3/18/2024 10:42 AM, Ed Cryer wrote:
>> My android phone has suddenly rearranged all the icons through all the 
>> screens.
>> A new little white circle with 9 little dots has appeared on the home 
>> screen,
>
>Unlike MS Windows that seems to re-arrange its desktop icons every time 
>it updates the icon cache,

I have used this little Shell program for quite a while now to prevent
my icons from moving around in Windows. Works great!
http://www.midiox.com/index.htm?http://www.midiox.com/desktoprestore.htm

> there are only two reasons that I'm aware of 
>that cause Android to re-arrange icons:
>1. you installed a new app & have "Add to Home Screen" turned on
>2. you changed Home Screen settings/customizations
>
>You don't mention the brand/model of phone that you have.
>
>The icon you describe sounds like the app drawer icon that I have on my 
>Samsung Galaxy S23.  For my phone, I can control whether or not that 
>icon is displayed by Settings > Home Screen > "Show Apps screen button 
>on Home screen".
>
>On my phone, I can control whether new app icons are displayed on the 
>home screen by Settings > Home Screen > "Add new apps to Home screen". 
>I believe that this setting is turned on by default.  One of the first 
>things that I do with a new phone is to turn this setting off, since I 
>carefully organize the icons on my Home Screen & don't want anything to 
>change it.
>
>Lastly, you should be able to see what has been recently installed on 
>your phone (assuming that you didn't manually side load an app) by Play 
>Store > click on profile pic or initials in upper right > "Manage apps & 
>devices" > Manage tab > select "Installed", then sort by "Recently updated"
>
>Regards,
>
>-David

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