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title: "How do you remove icons and widgets from the main screen of the Android device?"  
description: "How do you remove icons and widgets from the main screen of the Android device?"  
author: "MARY  ANN"  
published: 2018-01-10  
canonical: https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/32834/how-do-you-remove-icons-and-widgets-from-the-main-screen-of-the-android-device  
category: "technology"  
tags: ["android"]  
reading_time: 1 minute  

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# How do you remove icons and widgets from the main screen of the Android device?

How do you [remove](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/view/81692/proven-ways-to-remove-dark-circles) [icons](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/93842/what-is-bootstrap-icons-and-which-class-is-used-to-make-icon) and [widgets](https://www.mindstick.com/news/2420/with-material-you-themed-home-screen-widgets-shazam-for-android-has-been-updated) from the main [screen](https://www.mindstick.com/forum/1382/print-something-that-is-not-shown-on-the-screen-using-wpf) of the [Android](https://www.mindstick.com/articles/1672/android-internals) [device](https://www.mindstick.com/articles/331690/how-much-time-should-we-spend-on-your-devices-every-day)?

## Answers

### Answer by Prateek sharma

**icons** or **widgets** can be removed by simply **long pressing** them and moving them to the direction in which the bin icon is present.

once the icon turned to **red**, leave the icon or widget it will remove it from the home screen.

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