How to lock your home screen on your Galaxy Note to prevent accidental changes?

My wife had this special ability to absolutely destroy the home screen on her phone regardless of what I did. I even bought several themes with home screen lock features to no avail.

I’d set up her home screen with her favourite widgets and apps and lo and behold, apps and widgets would go missing or get moved to a new page sometimes within 24 hours.

I was browsing through the lock screen options on my new Note 20g Ultra, basically familiarising myself with the features of my new toy and stumbled across a new, or previously unnoticed feature, called Lock Home Screen Layout.

I checked my wife’s Note 8 and sure enough the feature was on that as well.

It’s now been 3 weeks and her home screen has remained intact.

Simply go to settings:

  • Scroll down a little and select Home Screen
  • New the bottom of the page, set the toggle for Lock Home Screen Layout to on