Locking your home screen prevents accidentally moving icons around. You can lock and unlock your Home screen layout in Settings. Making it harder to move the apps and widgets on your home screen could ...

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With its in-house Pixel Launcher, Google provides a clean Android interface across both the home screen and the app drawer. Unfortunately, this simplicity comes at the cost of customizability, which ...

Customization in Android has always been one of the platform’s strengths, and for Pixel owners on Android 16, that will seemingly include the capability to customize your home screen icons.

Updating to One UI 7 may mess up your home screen layout, as the software supports a smaller selection of grid layouts. While One UI 6 offers 4×5, 4×6, 5×5, and 5×6 grid layouts, One UI 7 only ...

Android 16 QPR1 Beta 1 introduces UI tweaks to the Pixel Launcher, including a smaller At a Glance widget. This change frees up space on the home and lock screen for additional apps and widgets. The ...

Locking the screen keeps you from accidentally moving the icons around, but if you want to change your layout, you'll need to ...