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If nothing else works, then I suggest you format your smartphone after taking a backup, but that's the last thing I'd suggest to anybody. How do you interact with an app if you can't locate it? I hope the above points helped you restore missing app icons. After all, that's how we identify an app and open it. We don't pay enough attention to icons unless they go missing on our Android phones. Tap Clear data at the bottom of the screen and select Clear all data. Open Settings and find the 'missing icon' app under Manage app. You will be clearing the cache and data of the app whose icon is missing the same way you cleared data of the launcher app in the above point. On a related note, updating your launcher from the Play Store might also help. Go back to the previous screen and select Clear data at the bottom of the screen and tap on Clear all data. You should also try clearing the cache and data of the launcher app itself. Open it, tap on Storage, and select Clear data. You are looking for a third-party or default launcher here. Open Settings and go to Manage app or App list. Try resetting the launcher to see if bad data is responsible. A recent update could be responsible in which case, switch to default launcher and check if app icons are still missing. We have covered some great Android launchers on GT. The same can be true for app drawer too.Ī launcher is how you access the app drawer, notifications, and other areas or aspects of the smartphone. Speaking about the home screen, you could have moved the app to a folder and are simply looking at the wrong place. Move and release to create a new app icon on the home screen. Open the App Drawer and find the app that's missing and press and hold it until you see the home screen in the background. You may have deleted the app icon, and not the app itself, from the home screen. Note: I am assuming you have already performed basic tests like rebooting your phone and updating/reinstalling the app in question.Īdvanced users can move on to the next point, but those who are new to Android or smartphone world should read it once.

The app icon is missing everywhere or shows a 'green Android' logo instead of the app logo.

You can view the app in the app drawer, but it is missing on the home screen. There are two issues at hand, and I will address both. So we decided to take a closer look at that problem. That's what is happening to many Android phone owners who often talk about missing app icons. While you might be using a handful of apps daily, you might be surprised when you can't locate the icon of the app that you had installed earlier.

Icons are how we identify an app among the neatly arranged clutter on our phones.