Re: Sudden screen re-arrangement-OT

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,

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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
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You don't mention the brand/model of phone that you have.
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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".
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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.
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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"
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Regards,
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-David

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