Why Is My App Drawer Still Using Horizontal Pages?

[chj001]

I just bought the S7 Edge thru T-Mob. In reading articles about what's new with Marshmallow, I am told that Marshmallow uses vertical scrolling for the App drawer, yet my version continues to use horizontal paging like Lollipop did. Any thoughts?

 

[lephils]

Touchwiz.

It's marshmallow, but it's Samsung's marshmallow.

 

[adayoff]

The Google Now Launcher in the app store says it does that. I haven't downloaded that yet but did see it.

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[lephils]

Yeah I should have said that.
If you want it to scroll that way you can get another launcher.

Google now launcher does that.

I haven't tried another launcher in quite a while so I can't really recommend any other, but there is certainly others that scroll vertically as well.

 

[LeoRex]

The app drawer is not an OS level feature, it's a launcher feature. The Google Now launcher, as well as a few others, are vertical.

Samsung likes to do things their way, and their way loves them some horizontal apps.

That's why I chuckled when people freaked about about 'Google removing the all drawer from Android' when it was never actual IN Android in the first place.

 

[uraveragedude1]

You can use Nova Launcher to change between the 2 settings, along with icon packs and other goodies. It's my go-to launcher for every phone I get.

 

[davemerk68]

I've also noticed that the lock screen on my Samsung still has the dialer rather than the Google Now Mic. This was also a change that was indicated in marshmallow. Also, I noticed that the RAM useage summary screen in settings (should be under "Memory") doesn't exist. There's a way to look at each app and the ram it may be using, but not a overall total with the top offenders as it was described in the article I wish that these features would be locked in rather than optional....

 

[yui548]

Touchwiz.

It's marshmallow, but it's Samsung's marshmallow.

Sorry what do you mean it's Samsung's marshmallow? I haven't updated mine because I didn't want the vertical scrolling but when I look at phones in stores running 6.01 they don't have vertical scroll as well. Does that mean even if I update my phone it wouldn't change? I have a Note 4 btw.