Android: How to remove Swipe left to access Google app from home screen? (disable, update)
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I just upgrade android version, now how to get rid of the three lines icon(Swipe left to access Google app)? I mean the one in red rectangular (screenshot).
I don't mean disabling it, I want to remove it from home screen. At the meanwhile, I don't want to disable Google app completely, I am using Google search widget, or something other google things, disabling Google app will make them disappear too. I only want to remove Swipe left to access Google App from home screen.
There is no such issue before android upgrade. I am sure there was other android upgrade before, it can be easily removed somewhere in setting. But not this time, no idea how to get rid of it completely.
when you phone is on the neutral, home Desktop:
a. pinch (make smaller by squeezing) the desktop wallpaper itself. That will change the view to be a translucent overview of all four of your desktops. Swipe left to get to the one on the left (that you dont want). In my case, there is a toggle button (on the top right) to hide this unwanted, 4th desktop which is to the left of your home screen. Your widget settings on the (lower right) may have other tricks for deleting this unwanted "fourth desktop".
2. escalation, more difficult:
if that doesnt work for you...
your phone gets its apps from the official google Play Store?
Go into the Play Store or Settings/Apps on your phone. uninstall "Flipboard". uninstall the latest update to Google (itself, its 566MB on my Android 11 phone).
Go into Settings/Apps menu and Force Stop, and then Disable the Apps you dont want. This may or may not work. Avoid "hiding" Apps, becaues this merely removes them from your visible menus, it doesnt remove them from your eMMC (hard disk, in Windows PC talk).
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the fact that you cant figure out how to turn "it" off, is due to some recent updates, where Google thinks or imagines that it owns your device and certain apps or menus or desktops are mandatory, and it intentionally hides or obscures where to turn it off or uninstall it.
to get rid of the fourth desktop, you might have to delete or move all the icons off that desktop, before you are presented with the option to delete that desktop. Android is tricky & irrational that way.
Also, its not just Google. Your OEM (say Samsung) may have their own mandatory bloatware, and your carrier (say ATT) may have their own bloatware that's hard to uninstall. In my case, Samsung has their own version of Flipboard, and I can Force Stop and Disable it, but I cant uninstall it. I would have to ROOT the phone to truly get rid of it.
STOP. You don't need a launcher. There is a setting to turn that off. Push and hold on the home screen>settings. It's in there somewhere.
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