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Re: Android 15 - icons with no text that won't go away

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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.

-- 
Chris Green
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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

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