Remove icons ("hotseat"?) at the bottom of the screen

[makx]

Since the update to Andoid6, the icons that have previously been in the Edge Swipe (the side menu with the four favorite apps) are now in the ‘hotseat’ (bottom part of the homescreen).
They take up a lot of space. How can I remove or at least hide that area?
I have nothing in there. Only the “All Apps” button which I don’t us.

[paulakreuzer]

The new FP OS (Android 6) comes with a new launcher and many specific features were removed. If you don’t like the app dock you’ll have to install a launchers that doesn’t have one.

Or you can wait for the community-republished version of the old FP launcher:

Publishing Fairphone-specific apps (Launcher, Contact Widget...) on F-Droid

This is a #wiki post, feel free to edit it clicking on the green above Fairphone-specific apps are Free Software under Apache License 2.0 and have been migrated to the community-managed WeAreFairphone organization at GitHub. Work has been done to publish them on F-Droid and making them compatible with Android 6 and forward. Team: @jnsp, @Rudloff, @z3ntu and @Roboe (two latters are managers of the WeAreFairphone organization at GitHub) Progress is as follows: Fairphone First Ed…

[Stefan]

One option is also to extract the old launcher with the Edge Swipe feature from a Lollipop OTA.zip (list of older Fairphone OS versions) and install it on your device manually.