After years of waiting, it looks like Google is finally ready to give Android its own native home screen manager (and it has been a long time coming).

Hardcore Android users love creating minimalist or themed home screen setups. I'm not one of them — I value function over form. However, over time, my home screen became unnecessarily cluttered, ...

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 ...

Your Galaxy S25 Home screen can be customized far beyond just moving icons. You can adjust grid layout, app icon size, labels, widgets, folder behavior, and panel style so your layout is both clean ...

Don't let Google organize apps ...

The Pixel Launcher is adding an icon shape customization feature in a future Android release. The feature isn’t live yet in Android 16 Beta 3, but we managed to enable it to show what the feature’s ...