It consistently hides the home indicator in my experience.
I just compiled two of my apps with `prefersHomeIndicatorAutoHidden` set to true. This resulted in the home indicator disappearing after a second or two on the view controllers where it was configured. Neither of the apps were video apps.
The home indicator does come back if you interact with the screen. Tap the screen and it will appear briefly, before disappearing again.
If you add a second page of apps, go into jiggle mode, tap the page indicator dots at the bottom to enter the overview mode, then uncheck a Home Screen. It will still exist, but it will be hidden.
That still happens outside the app, though. You have to go back to the home screen, find the app icon. I'm talking about a design where there's no "lookup the app" step in any menu (Settings or Home screen); where instead, you go straight to the foreground app's preferences.
I had a response typed out, but I think I’m missing something. What is a hidden Home Screen on an iPhone? I have a one page Home Screen, after that it’s the App Library.
If you ever lose the bottom home bar it just means you're in a full-screen view where they want to prevent accidentally swiping to go home, like a full-screen video or a game. In those cases you just have to swipe up once to re-enable the home bar, and then again to actually go to the home screen.
You only have a home screen on iOS. It makes a lot of things simple. When you remove an app, you remove it, since it only exist in one place. On Android you can remove an app and then it still exist.
This might seem obvious to HN users, since you only removed the shortcut from the home screen, but it is not obvious to a lot of users.
That's the home indicator. It's always on the bottom of the screen (so, in portrait, it would not be on the left). It's used to show users where to swipe up in order to close the current app.
Annoyingly so it doesn't even always open on the expected screen, e.g. when opening "Wifi settings" from the network selection you might end up in notifications if it was the last screen you used. Not a consistent bug.
This doesn't work for me. (Android 11, Motorola phone.)
If I add a PWA or shortcut to my Home Screen, it will quite quickly disappear silently. Especially if I use Chrome to do it. The Support community is at a loss to explain this and they're starting to send me nonsensical instructions, showing they are desperate to get rid of my embarrassing question.
The other thing to realize is that you don't stay on the home screen for long. You see if there are any inrestesting notifications and then move on to what you want to do.
There is a setting to choose what the home button does. My Home Screen looks just like a grid of icons. No ads or anything. The Apple TV app is not the same as the Home Screen.
android homescreens behave very differently than browser toolbars do. You can not set a homescreen secretly or in the background, and you can only have a single home screen set at any given time.
If the user decides to install a homescreen, and he does not like it, He will simply uninstall the app.
I just compiled two of my apps with `prefersHomeIndicatorAutoHidden` set to true. This resulted in the home indicator disappearing after a second or two on the view controllers where it was configured. Neither of the apps were video apps.
The home indicator does come back if you interact with the screen. Tap the screen and it will appear briefly, before disappearing again.
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