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  Android 15 - icons with no text that won't go away Chris Green <cl@isbd.net> - 2025-09-21 18:27 +0100
    Re: Android 15 - icons with no text that won't go away Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> - 2025-09-21 18:46 +0100
      Re: Android 15 - icons with no text that won't go away Chris Green <cl@isbd.net> - 2025-09-22 09:25 +0100

#150648 — Android 15 - icons with no text that won't go away

I have just got a tablet running Android 15.

It has a row of app icons across the bottom of the screen that don't
have the app name below them and can't be removed.

If I drag one up then the 'Remove' isn't there, it has 'Cancel'
instead and dragging the app icon to it does nothing.

How can I get rid of them? Several also appear as 'normal' icons with
text under that can be removed.

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Chris Green
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Chris Green wrote:

> I have just got a tablet running Android 15.
> 
> It has a row of app icons across the bottom of the screen that don't
> have the app name below them and can't be removed.

The bottom row of icons is called the favourites bar (they are common 
across multiple home pages if you scroll left/right)

You can add/remove icons from the favourites bar, but you won't get the 
space back for anything else, I keep common icons like 
dialler/sms/firefox/thunderbird/camera there.

> If I drag one up then the 'Remove' isn't there, it has 'Cancel'
> instead and dragging the app icon to it does nothing.

I'm on a Pixel with android16 (and the QPR1 UI refresh), if I do a 
long-press, then drag an icpn from the bottom row, I do get the remove 
'pill' at the top, if there is a copy of the favourite icon on the home 
screen *then*/ I get cancel pill instead of remove pill.

> How can I get rid of them? Several also appear as 'normal' icons with
> text under that can be removed.

As above, I think those several which also exist as normal icons will 
trigger the cancel, not the remove?  I'm not sure what the logic is 
there ...

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Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> wrote:
> Chris Green wrote:
> 
> > I have just got a tablet running Android 15.
> > 
> > It has a row of app icons across the bottom of the screen that don't
> > have the app name below them and can't be removed.
> 
> The bottom row of icons is called the favourites bar (they are common 
> across multiple home pages if you scroll left/right)
> 
> You can add/remove icons from the favourites bar, but you won't get the 
> space back for anything else, I keep common icons like 
> dialler/sms/firefox/thunderbird/camera there.
> 
> > If I drag one up then the 'Remove' isn't there, it has 'Cancel'
> > instead and dragging the app icon to it does nothing.
> 
> I'm on a Pixel with android16 (and the QPR1 UI refresh), if I do a 
> long-press, then drag an icpn from the bottom row, I do get the remove 
> 'pill' at the top, if there is a copy of the favourite icon on the home 
> screen *then*/ I get cancel pill instead of remove pill.
> 
> > How can I get rid of them? Several also appear as 'normal' icons with
> > text under that can be removed.
> 
> As above, I think those several which also exist as normal icons will 
> trigger the cancel, not the remove?  I'm not sure what the logic is 
> there ...
> 
OK, thanks, especially the last paragraph, it's the lack of sense as
to how it works that I was finding a bit confusing.

I'm trying some different launchers to try and get things more the way
I like, currently Niagara Launcher is the front runner.

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Chris Green
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