Gesture Setup

Stop stretching to the status bar on a tall phone. Assign Smart Launcher’s swipe down gesture to Expand notifications and keep Smart Search one tap away.

Your gesture map is invisible infrastructure. Export it properly, cover the gaps the launcher backup misses, and bracket every OS update with two restore points.

Smart Launcher has no landscape gesture map or rotation triggers. Build rotation-aware behaviour from orientation policy plus MacroDroid/Tasker orientation triggers instead.

Most gesture corruption is not corruption at all. A staged reset — diagnose, clear-and-reassign, restore from backup — fixes it without costing your layout.

There is no triple tap in Smart Launcher 6 — but the torch-and-camera goal is fully achievable with back tap, the power button, icon gestures and one automation assist.

Launcher gestures cannot fire inside games — so what is minimising yours? The three real culprits and the game-mode, exclusion and assignment fixes for each.

Privacy on your own phone through absence, not locks: hide a small app tier in Smart Launcher, reach it by ordinary routes, and understand the honest limits.

Per-folder animations are not a thing in Smart Launcher — but opening method per icon, preview styles, one global transition and animation pace are, and they are enough.

Launcher gesture buzz comes from Android’s haptics layer, not the launcher. Work the five-layer stack top-down and find exactly where your feedback went.

Three layers make big phones one-hand friendly: Android’s own one-handed mode, a bottom-weighted Smart Launcher layout, and habits that survive new cases and postures.