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hey guys Chris Carlin from Android authority here we're wrapping things up at MWC 2016 and one of the most interesting things to come out of the show is actually not related to a specific phone but rather a feature common to quite a few phones so a few days before the show we heard word from a few people that pre-release versions of the Android and release that would be out later in the year actually don't have an after all so we investigate a little bit more we got some more confirmation and then on the weekend we found out that the LG g5 does not have an app drawer the next day we found out that the galaxy s7 and s7 edge do have an app drawer that have an option to get rid of it not long after that we found out that the HTC One X 9 also doesn't have one and this starts to point us in the direction that Android 7.0 will not have an app drawer so we reached out to Google Google of course didn't want to say anything in particular we're keeping an eye out for any further confirmations but when you think about it it's starting to make a lot of sense obviously OMS has early access to new builds of Android and it's a little bit too convenient that everyone is doing something similar at the same time of course the next bit Robin doesn't have an app drawer far away and Xiaomi haven't had one for a while either so it's quite possible but the next major version of Android will be losing one of the most recognizable features of Android itself now we know that Google hasn't been happy with the app drawer for a while in Android marshmallow we saw it go from a horizontal card stack down into a endlessly scrolling vertical list now just because Google wants to get rid of it or may want to get rid of it doesn't necessarily mean that it will be gone Samsung having the option with a happy face smiley face kind of up-down vote system means that if enough people with the galaxy s7 and s7 edge actually want to keep the app drawer there's potential that Samsung will choose to do so and of course they can because Android is open source and manufacturers can do whatever they like with it so the big question is why would you get rid of the app drawer in the first place it's a bit of a fan favorite it's pretty convenient and moving to a home page based endless list of app icons is very iOS and also adds quite a few steps to getting to the app that you want we asked LG obviously that were the first cab off the rank and we were told that they did extensive market research not just in Asia but globally and it was actually the North American market that swung the favor in balance of getting rid of it they told us that it was a bit too difficult to have the option it would only confuse things more and they're generally speaking people want a simpler more easy to navigate interface make of that what you will we're kind of fans of the app drawer but let us know in the comments below what you should want to see in the next version of Android and of course hit that subscribe button like this video if you have liked the video not necessarily the topic of the video and let us know in the comments what you think Google should do in the next one