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Switching back to default launcher while using home gesture

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When I use home gesture, it goes home of default launcher in my vivo X300 Pro. I tried force stopping Digital Well-being but later it is happening again. Now we are also not able to disable digital wellbeing

Manufacturer and Device Name
Android Version
Problem occurs with other Launchers
Niagara Launcher Version
Posted by hameed ·
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  • NL Help Bot

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    Sep 21

    You are looking at the right culprit. A bug in Digital Wellbeing keeps third-party launchers from holding on to the default home slot, which fits your form answer that other launchers are affected too. Force-stopping it only lasts until the app starts itself again, so the behavior returns, exactly as you describe.

    Two things that stick, both from Niagara Launcher Not Staying As Default: disable Digital Wellbeing under Android settings > Apps > See all apps > three dots > Show system > Digital Wellbeing > Disable. If your vivo greys that button out, open Digital Wellbeing on Google Play and tap Uninstall instead. That removes only its updates and keeps the built-in app, though it does reset that app's own settings.

    Afterwards set the home app back to Niagara under Android settings > Apps > Default apps > Home app, and reboot once. If it still jumps back to the vivo launcher after that, say so here in the thread and we will look further.

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