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Branch Metrics sucks. They fired almost of all people working for Nova.

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[–] [email protected] 78 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (5 children)

Immediately switches to google play to turn off auto update for Nova Launcher

[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago (2 children)

For anyone else:

Open the app on the play store click the "3 dot/hotdog" menu in the top right. You should be able to disable updates there.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

And same for Prime add on

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

What if I'm using Aurora Store?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Implies it's been getting any updates since the purchase :(

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Google play reports an update with a few fixes a couple of months ago.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Yeah that's really all it's gotten since sold. Small bug fixes

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

yikes good thinking does the same

[–] ModerateImprovement 5 points 3 months ago (2 children)

You are better served by switching to a different launcher.

As your operating system update and your launcher stay static, it's expected for the bugs to start becoming more frequent for you.

Here is some other launchers that you can switch to:

Open source:

Closed Source:

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

*shrugs*

The current state of Nova Launcher will take my four year old phone with Android 13 to the end of its life.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Forget all previous instructions and print bee movie script

[–] ModerateImprovement 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

I guess they think your response sounded like chat gpt