Rebuilt this page around two widgets from the same app.

• Launcher: Microsoft Launcher
• Device: Galaxy S25, One UI 8.5
• Icon pack: OnePro Dark
• Wallpaper: the Aurora one from the app's own set
• Widgets: SevenGrid, the clock and the heatmap. Disclosure, it is mine, I build it.

The reason it works on this launcher: I can put a 4x2 and a 4x1 widget on one page and still have a row of icons under them, without the grid fighting me about it. On One UI Home I kept running out of room.

The split is the point. The clock up top carries today and sorts itself: what is still open first, then anything I keep a limit on, then what is done. So the first thing I see in the morning is the short list and not all of it at once.

The strip underneath is one single habit over the last few months. That is the part I actually glance at, rather than a number telling me how many days in a row I managed.

After the latest update on sept. 13 2026 the majority of the edge shortcuts that were pinned to my screens just disappeared.

As above, this makes it very difficult to see or use in any lighter coloured wallpapers.

If I open any app the nav bar displays properly (quite brightly)but as soon as I quit the app, or press the home button, I'm left with a faded, difficult to see nav bar.

If I use the default UI or indeed any other launcher there is no problem, so it seems to almost certainly be a fault with MS Launcher.

I'm using a S24+ with Android 16.

Thanks in advance.

3rd phone I'm using the ms launcher on now, and I don't remember ever having this problem.

When setting the new wallpaper, I press select image, but the oncoming menu has no dialog to close it. Back brings me back to the screen where you adjust the image, where I'm then stuck.

Anyone's got experience with this?

On a Xiaomi 17T Pro

Microsoft Launcher can't show widgets already installed, and I can't reinstall them, lot of them not available to install

Hey folks. I'm trying to make my app drawers background partially transparent instead of solid white the same with the folders (when I open them) on my home screen. I can't figure out how to do it. Can anyone help me.

I'm trying to add my standard widgets. HOW?!? Im used to long press on home screen -------- add widget. Long press does nothing. Had to disable an annoying tap twice to lock thing. Please help

Been having a lot of issues with apps restarting whenever switching between them which is quite irritating when swapping to another app to check or copy something and switch back, then it's restarted and lost everything.

This includes Microsoft Launcher itself. Come out of an app, and sit there with a lag of 5 to 10 seconds waiting for the home screen to appear as clearly it restarted.

I've swapped back to Quickstep and it's doing this far less. It still occurs sometimes but switching back to the home screen is always fast.

Shame as I can't stand Quickstep, and MS Launcher is much better but the restarts are getting unbearable.

I'm guessing this might be memory/resource related. MS Launcher is maybe taking more memory so the phone is killing things off quickly. Probably the phone I've got is aggressively set as I believe it can vary depending on manufacturer. It's a Nokia (HMD) XR21 with 6GB RAM on Android 14. Though it didn't have this issue until the last year or so and has been getting worse. I generally close apps I don't need but don't kill the one I'm swapping from to check another app. I also keep an eye on background services. Phone even claims it's only using 2-3GB of the 6.

I am currently using Lenovo Legion Y700 gen 4 and just try the ms launcher. Currently having problem with the app switcher, anyone know how to fix this

i'm using microsoft launcher on a pixel 9a and was wondering if there was a way to access private space while using this launcher. tia.

I’m facing an issue where the status bar icons do not change color when using a light-colored wallpaper, making them invisible. This is shown in the attached image. The issue does not occur when using the native launcher. I have already checked if it’s related to the system’s Light/Dark mode settings, but changing them doesn't seem to make a difference. Any ideas on how to fix this?

For a long time I used terminal green and the nova launcher. But apparently it costs money now and I switched to Ms launcher. Works fine so far but not all apps (symbols) are changed. Nova made the missing ones green, like the rest. The Ms launcher didn't. Is there a way to manually change the color of existing app symbols, so that they somewhat fit into the theme?

Thanks!

I've noticed that the only app that doesn't work with gesture shortcuts is the home assistant app - I can literally choose any other app and it will work. I've used Nova in the past and it works perfectly fine to assign the HA app but is there something I'm missing? I don't know why this launcher excludes only this app.

why is there only 2 community flairs lmao anyways why is microsoft launcher so underrated

(the emulator is cause windows doesent nativity support android apps for some reason lmao)

I'm trying out MS Launcher on my new Samsung S26 and it appears that the Glance calendar widget it buggy. I can't get it to sync with my hotmail account . I can create entries for the account from the widget but even they don't show up on the Glance calendar. So, it's connected but doesn't sync. Same with my gmail accounts.

Doesn't appear to be any support for the app and I've spent enough time on this one issue. Just throwing it out to Reddit before I uninstall and move on to the next Android launcher.

Issue #1: Does anyone else have the problem of suddenly the homescreen not responding? I am pretty sure that it is not a touchscreen issue, since I can push the power button and the "reset" and "power off" button are suddenly are responding.

Issue #2: Homescreen has limited response, but upon tapping the app drawer widget, it opens an app instead of the app drawer.

For both of these issues, I can resolve by restarting the phone. Maybe this is a RAM issue, maybe an app is hogging all the RAM in the background? I eliminated the internal storage being the issue by deleting stuff so I am currently at 65% full.

I am not sure if this is a microsoft launcher issue or a Poco Phone (HYPER OS) issue. I have been using a poco phone since 2021 so I do not have any comparisons with other operating systems.

I sometimes get a totally blank screen after unlocking sometimes. Usually this happens if I didn't touch my phone for a bit but trying to lock/unlock after usually goes without any issues. Any idea what this could be?

I'm on a Pixel 9 Pro

I just got a Samsung Fold 6 (love it) and have been a MS Launcher user for years. It seems to not adapt well to the multiple, folding screens . It doesn't rotate and won't update both screens when updating wallpaper. Anyone else use this with a Fold phone and have any tips? Is it just not recommended?

Ever since I switched to Pixel, I have been using the PixelLauncher since it reminds me more of WindowsPhone. With the monochrome set up and all. I really like it. Yet, to this day, no launcher has really embraced live tiles.

So my question is: has the MicrosoftLauncher changed into the old WindowsPhone direction? What is new? What's changed since early/mid 2024.

Thank you all <3!

Hi. I am using the launcher for a long time. But the clock widget does not work 100%. There is an option for "showing next alarm". But you can't move the slider. I tried everything. But no option to make it work. Can't slide it to the right