Apps and Web pages disappeared after apps update

[Double Tap]

This morning Google Play updated a bunch of apps and web system. After I rebooted the phone a whole bunch of web pages and apps disappeared from the home pages. What's most disturbing is most of the icons are for alternative news sites. I can manually go to the sites and put them back on the homepage, however why does this happen and how do I prevent it from happening again?

 

[mustang7757]

Which device this happened on?

I had the recent webview update and havnt experience this on multiple different manufacturers phones .

 

[B. Diddy]

Which phone? Sometimes, when an app has a major update, the app shortcut might disappear from the homescreen, and needs to be placed again. I wouldn't be surprised if website shortcuts also disappeared because of a major browser update, or perhaps from Android System Webview. Since you bring up alternative news sites, I really don't think this has anything to do with censorship.

One thing I encountered recently was that the folder of Direct Dial widgets I created (essentially my way of speed dialing) disappeared from my homescreen (both on the Pixel Launcher and on Nova Launcher), so I had to recreate it. Might have been the same general reason.

 

[Double Tap]

Which phone? Sometimes, when an app has a major update, the app shortcut might disappear from the homescreen, and needs to be placed again. I wouldn't be surprised if website shortcuts also disappeared because of a major browser update, or perhaps from Android System Webview. Since you bring up alternative news sites, I really don't think this has anything to do with censorship.

One thing I encountered recently was that the folder of Direct Dial widgets I created (essentially my way of speed dialing) disappeared from my homescreen (both on the Pixel Launcher and on Nova Launcher), so I had to recreate it. Might have been the same general reason.

Pixel 3a yes web view was one of the updates

 

[B. Diddy]

Yeah, I have a 3 XL.

 

[mustang7757]

[Moved this to pixel 3a forums]