Show or Hide App Suggestions in the App Drawer
Every time you open the app drawer on your Realme phone, a row of suggested apps shows up above your full app list, picked based on what you have opened recently. If you find that suggestion bar distracting, or you just do not want Realme UI displaying your last-used apps at the top, that behavior comes from a single toggle you may not have noticed yet.
Icon Autofill Setting
When you uninstall an app on your Realme phone, the other home screen icons sometimes shift on their own to close the empty spot. That happens because of the Icon autofill setting, which rearranges shortcuts without asking first. If you like keeping your icons in fixed positions, this behavior needs to be switched off.
App Drawer: Enable or Disable
If all your apps sit scattered across several Realme home screens instead of collected in one place, the App Drawer mode is switched off. Whether new apps land directly on a home screen or in a separate overview depends on this one setting.
Force Stop an App
When a Realme app freezes and stops reacting to taps, the screen locks up and closing it from the recent apps view does not help either. Force stop ends the app process immediately, the way End task works on a Windows PC. Used too often it can also wipe unsaved drafts or log you out of the app.
Add App Shortcuts to the Home Screen
If your realme home screen looks empty and every app only shows up in a separate drawer, the app drawer view is switched on. That is normal behavior, not a missing icon or a broken launcher. You just need to pull the apps you actually use onto the home screen yourself.
Remove App Shortcuts from the Home Screen
When the home screen on a Realme phone fills up with app icons you rarely tap, finding the apps you actually need takes longer every time. Removing a shortcut only takes the icon off the home screen - the app stays installed and can still run in the background or send notifications. Mixing this up with uninstalling is why storage space does not shrink afterward.
Turn Automatic App Updates On or Off
If your realme phone keeps downloading app updates in the background, mobile data can disappear fast or storage fills up without warning. This happens because Play Store's auto-update setting defaults to updating apps over any available connection, sometimes including mobile data. You can limit updates to Wi-Fi only or turn the feature off completely.
Set an App Timer to Limit Screen Time
If a certain app keeps eating up your day on your Realme phone, an app timer can force a hard stop once your daily budget runs out. The app then locks itself automatically and stays unavailable until the counter resets. This gives you a way to control usage without deleting the app or relying on willpower alone.
App Update Dots: Show or Hide
If a small dot suddenly shows up next to an app icon on your home screen after an update, that is the built-in app update indicator in Realme UI. Some people find it useful as a quick reminder, others just see it as clutter on an otherwise clean home screen. The toggle for this dot is easy to miss because it lives under general home screen options rather than inside app settings.