I want to reorganize my homescreen and remove the big search widget at the top. Holding it should give a remove option, but that doesn’t work. I’ve been able to remove it by uninstalling the search app (duckduckgo), but now it gives the date in that location. I still can’t drag an icon or widget there.
Is there a way to fix this? Is this hardcoded? I find it very wasteful to have such a big widget take up valuable screen real estate in such a prime location, and there’s no good reason why search couldn’t just be a simple 1x1 icon. Surely this can be customized the way I want it? Having so much space reserved for something I don’t want is not reasonable.
Would it work to move everything to the next screen and delete the first home screen? Is that possible? Or make the second screen the home screen?
I never used a different one, but Nova Launcher is mentioned here quite often.
Maybe, but a quick swipe would bring you to the next one. And the famous back function should always bring you to the second screen, where you started.