• Android Question

    From Jeff Gaines@21:1/5 to All on Mon Apr 29 16:18:11 2024
    Sorry to ask here, struggling to find anywhere more appropriate.

    Took delivery of a new Android 13 phablet this afternoon. It keeps
    deciding for me what apps should go in the tray at the bottom of the
    screen which is annoying, I know what I want there. All the online
    suggestions I have found so far are way our of date, nothing comes up as
    they say it will.

    Anybody know how to turn it off? It's plain Android 13, I could put the
    Nova launcher on it perhaps?

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  • From Sump@21:1/5 to Jeff Gaines on Tue Apr 30 08:25:58 2024
    On 29 Apr 2024 16:18:11 GMT, "Jeff Gaines" <jgnewsid@outlook.com> wrote:


    Sorry to ask here, struggling to find anywhere more appropriate.

    Took delivery of a new Android 13 phablet this afternoon. It keeps
    deciding for me what apps should go in the tray at the bottom of the
    screen which is annoying, I know what I want there. All the online >suggestions I have found so far are way our of date, nothing comes up as
    they say it will.

    Anybody know how to turn it off? It's plain Android 13, I could put the
    Nova launcher on it perhaps?

    On my Android 14 phone.
    1) Press and hold on a free part of the desktop/background
    2) You should get "personalise ..to... Hiome settings"
    3) Go into Home Settings
    4) "Home Screen Style"
    5) Hopefully it is set as "App Tray"
    6) Click on the nearby gearwheel.
    7) "Suggestions on Home screen" swipe to "off"

    Then back out to the main screen, and then customise but holding the icon to remove and drag to the top to "remove" as per usual.

    On older Androids you could move them around the the grid size of the screen, but later versions will equally space the Icons across the app tray.
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  • From Jeff Gaines@21:1/5 to All on Tue Apr 30 12:10:49 2024
    On 30/04/2024 in message <7t613jtjp1orngfuen6a8fk85q5gj2frpu@4ax.com> Sump wrote:

    On 29 Apr 2024 16:18:11 GMT, "Jeff Gaines" <jgnewsid@outlook.com> wrote:


    Sorry to ask here, struggling to find anywhere more appropriate.

    Took delivery of a new Android 13 phablet this afternoon. It keeps
    deciding for me what apps should go in the tray at the bottom of the
    screen which is annoying, I know what I want there. All the online >>suggestions I have found so far are way our of date, nothing comes up as >>they say it will.

    Anybody know how to turn it off? It's plain Android 13, I could put the >>Nova launcher on it perhaps?

    On my Android 14 phone.
    1) Press and hold on a free part of the desktop/background
    2) You should get "personalise ..to... Hiome settings"
    3) Go into Home Settings
    4) "Home Screen Style"
    5) Hopefully it is set as "App Tray"
    6) Click on the nearby gearwheel.
    7) "Suggestions on Home screen" swipe to "off"

    Then back out to the main screen, and then customise but holding the icon
    to remove and drag to the top to "remove" as per usual.

    On older Androids you could move them around the the grid size of the
    screen, but later versions will equally space the Icons across the app
    tray.

    Thanks for that :-)

    Unfortunately I get the option "Home settings" but not then the rest of
    the options you mention. This is a Doogee running Android 13 vanilla.

    For now I have put Nova on which is more flexible. I tried to log on to
    Android Central but apparently I have been banned for posting spam and
    need to contact admin. I have no idea what I am supposed to have posted
    and there seems no way to contact admin. I'm banned from asking questions
    on Stack Overflow as well, they seem only to want people who answer
    questions. I must be a right hooligan....

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  • From Sump@21:1/5 to Jeff Gaines on Tue Apr 30 14:51:03 2024
    On 30 Apr 2024 12:10:49 GMT, "Jeff Gaines" <jgnewsid@outlook.com> wrote:

    On 30/04/2024 in message <7t613jtjp1orngfuen6a8fk85q5gj2frpu@4ax.com> Sump >wrote:

    On 29 Apr 2024 16:18:11 GMT, "Jeff Gaines" <jgnewsid@outlook.com> wrote:


    Sorry to ask here, struggling to find anywhere more appropriate.

    Took delivery of a new Android 13 phablet this afternoon. It keeps >>>deciding for me what apps should go in the tray at the bottom of the >>>screen which is annoying, I know what I want there. All the online >>>suggestions I have found so far are way our of date, nothing comes up as >>>they say it will.

    Anybody know how to turn it off? It's plain Android 13, I could put the >>>Nova launcher on it perhaps?

    On my Android 14 phone.
    1) Press and hold on a free part of the desktop/background
    2) You should get "personalise ..to... Hiome settings"
    3) Go into Home Settings
    4) "Home Screen Style"
    5) Hopefully it is set as "App Tray"
    6) Click on the nearby gearwheel.
    7) "Suggestions on Home screen" swipe to "off"

    Then back out to the main screen, and then customise but holding the icon >>to remove and drag to the top to "remove" as per usual.

    On older Androids you could move them around the the grid size of the >>screen, but later versions will equally space the Icons across the app >>tray.

    Thanks for that :-)

    Unfortunately I get the option "Home settings" but not then the rest of
    the options you mention. This is a Doogee running Android 13 vanilla.

    Doogee must have tweaked it. .

    As my Moto on Android 11 and the other on 14 operate in similar ways...

    But a moto on Android 9 has "App Suggestions"

    Oh well!


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