How to Disable Auto App Widgets to home screen of your Android Device

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After getting a new Android phone, among the first thing to do is to install apps. First you install the must have Android apps then you move on to install some of the best games on Android.

But you know, Android has over 800,000 apps and if you are a app freak, you keep on installing dozens of applications on your device. When you return to the home screen of your device, you see all the applications you installed recently have created widgets on your home screen. It looks really untidy so you start deleting the widgets one by one now. Next time when you install applications it repeats teh same behavior.

Basically you don’t even know that there exists a way to disable auto app widgets to home screen of your Android Device. And this is why I decided to write this quick guide to show you how to do it.

How to Disable Auto App Widgets to home screen of your Android Device:

  • Open Play Store App of your Android device.
home screen with app widgets
This Home screen looks untidy and pure waste
  • Go to Settings here you will see “Auto-add widgets” which is ticked right now. This is the reason due to which whenever you install any application it adds a widget to home screen.
Play store with Auto Widgets checked
See carefully Auto Widgets is checked
  • Just “Uncheck” this option and from now there will be no widgets on home screen on installing a new application.
Play store with auto widget unchecked
Just uncheck the option

I hope now you know how to Disable Auto App Widgets to home screen of your Android Device so it’s your duty to help others too. Was this guide useful? Do tell us in comments.

How To Send Private Messages In Google Plus [Quick Tip]

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Almost all social media sites allow us to send private messages like in Facebook which you all know. In Twitter you can send Direct messages but what about Google Plus? Do you know the way out? No, I am not talking about using Hangout for sending chat messages. The reason being that you won’t notice the message left in Hangout as easily as in Facebook.

We have a quick tip to send private messages in Google Plus. People don’t know about this because Google Plus is pretty young as compared to Facebook and Twitter.

  • Just go to New Post and select the person to whom you want to send private message. For example, in this case I am sending a private message to Follow him and me too 😛

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  • I have typed my message and now here comes the trick. The place where you typed the name of the person whom you want to send message in the end you will see a drop down arrow.

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  • Click on the arrow and select “Disable reshares” from the option. This is important or else the private message can be shared by the receiver with others.

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  • And it’s done.

Did you liked this quick tip then share it and also give up thumbs up. If you want to boost your social media Marketing on Google Plus check out this guide. Soon we will be bringing a lot of posts like this.