{"id":283329,"date":"2026-06-28T08:15:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-28T12:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/28\/hiding-app-names-on-android-17-unlocked-my-entire-home-screen\/"},"modified":"2026-06-28T14:20:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-28T18:20:13","slug":"hiding-app-names-on-android-17-unlocked-my-entire-home-screen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/28\/hiding-app-names-on-android-17-unlocked-my-entire-home-screen\/","title":{"rendered":"Hiding app names on Android 17 unlocked my entire home screen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.androidpolice.com\/hiding-app-names-on-android-17-unlocked-my-entire-home-screen\/\">Hiding app names on Android 17 unlocked my entire home screen<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.androidpolice.com\/hiding-app-names-on-android-17-unlocked-my-entire-home-screen\/\">https:\/\/www.androidpolice.com\/hiding-app-names-on-android-17-unlocked-my-entire-home-screen\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-06-28 08:15:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.androidpolice.com\">www.androidpolice.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Android 17 is here, and it&#8217;s packed with features.<\/p>\n<p>The productivity and multitasking upgrades have made the biggest difference to how I use my Google Pixel phone, but there&#8217;s one tiny change that has had an outsized impact.<\/p>\n<p>Removing app names might not sound like much, but it&#8217;s a change I can&#8217;t go back from.<\/p>\n<p>This is more than a minimalism upgrade; it&#8217;s a tweak that I think everyone should make.<\/p>\n<p>                    <span data-field=\"label\" class=\"article-card-label\">related<\/span><\/p>\n<h5 class=\"display-card-title \">\n<p>\t\t\tAndroid 17 added a feature so good I can&#8217;t stop raving about it<\/p>\n<\/h5>\n<p class=\"display-card-excerpt\">App bubbles changed how I multitask<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"hiding-app-names-is-a-substantial-change\">\n                        Hiding app names is a substantial change<br \/>\n               <\/h2>\n<h3 id=\"it-39-s-more-than-a-win-for-minimalist-fans\">\n            It&#8217;s more than a win for minimalist fans<br \/>\n    <\/h3>\n<p>I cannot remember the last time I recognized an app by its name.<\/p>\n<p>Developers put a lot of work into making sure their app icons stand out, and while this isn&#8217;t great for phone addicts, it makes it easy to tell which app is which.<\/p>\n<p>Hiding app names has not harmed how I use my phone. I install and uninstall more apps than most people, but I&#8217;m still perfectly capable of&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.androidpolice.com\/hiding-app-names-on-android-17-unlocked-my-entire-home-screen\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hiding app names on Android 17 unlocked my entire home screen https:\/\/www.androidpolice.com\/hiding-app-names-on-android-17-unlocked-my-entire-home-screen\/ Publish Date: 2026-06-28&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":283330,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/static0.anpoimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/wm\/2025\/10\/img_0265.jpg?w=1600&h=900&fit=crop","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[70,72],"class_list":["post-283329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-android","tag-google","tag-pixel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283329"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=283329"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283329\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":283331,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283329\/revisions\/283331"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/283330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}