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.
I was guiding a relative with their 'new' Android tablet, the Youtube app goes either full of adverts or full screen. The latter hides the home button, because it's not a hardware one like the iPad.
So to stop playing a video you have to:
1. tap the screen to show controls
2. tap pause so you don't have to shout over them.
3. tap the icon which looks like a view finder but means exit full screen
4. swipe from the right to show the home button
5. press the home button
All of the above without pressing too softly or moving your fingers while tapping or swiping in a curve.
I understand now why iPads have a hardware home button.
At least an Android, any URL you can navigate to you can pin to the home screen. This seems a week way to force behavior people go to the same place commonly.
Illustrated with an image that includes a giant bar with "ADD TO HOME SCREEN" on it. I already know how to do that on my phone. If I go to a page with a bar like that, I'm closing the page. I'm sure I'm not alone.
No, there is no way for me to get the home screen without accepting the watch history on. So, if I want a home screen, I am forced to turn it on. Edit: I've updated the title to "requires".
I disabled it because I'm happy to watch YouTube subscriptions and the occasional recommendations, but I really don't see why YouTube needs to know my watch history.
As far as the dupe is concerned, please link to it so others can find it too.
You can save any website to the Home screen as an icon, and you can even remove Safari chrome from it. You're just giving up app discovery through App Store.
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