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MVP

Mar 10, 2020

Remove the "uninstall" option from the site icons pinned to home screen in Android

This even happened to me and other people that I know, we wanted to remove a site icon that was pinned to home screen and thought selecting "uninstall" will remove it but then we realized it actually...

Iron Contributor

Mar 10, 2020

Jacques Van de Meerssche and HotCakeX , thanks for bringing this to our attention. This behavior is a surprise to me as well and sounds like a bad bug. I'm investigating.

-John

HotCakeX

MVP

Mar 10, 2020

Thank you, by the way I'm using Edge beta on Android

johnjansen
Iron Contributor
Mar 11, 2020
HotCakeX can you give me specific repro steps? I am seeing 'remove from homescreen' but not 'uninstall'...
- HotCakeX
  MVP
  Mar 11, 2020
  johnjansen
  johnjansen wrote:
  HotCakeX can you give me specific repro steps? I am seeing 'remove from homescreen' but not 'uninstall'...
  
  Of course, here you go
  
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  - AmineI
    Brass Contributor
    Mar 11, 2020
    HotCakeX I'm afraid this could depend on the launcher and not on the app itself. I'm not aware of any Android feature to do this. It's most probably the launcher's decision to display or not an uninstall button.
    
    I could be wrong of course, but did you ever find an app with shortcuts that didn't display this "uninstall" option ?