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it's extremely frustrating after installing a bunch of apps whether it's through the Google Play Store on your Android device or the Google Play website to come back to your device and find your home screen is now covered in icons I'm Jason Cipriani a CNET how-to contributor and today I'm going to show you how to stop Android from adding new apps to your home screen automatically this purse became a problem for me personally with Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich but from my understanding it was present in honeycomb and some devices and builds of Android prior to that luckily either way it's an easy fix what we'll need to do to fix it is launch the Play Store app on your Android device tap on the menu and then go to settings there's an option here called auto add widgets by default it is checked we're just going to uncheck that box once we back out we go back to our home screen and we can install apps from the website or on the device as well and those icons are not automatically going to be added to the home screen for us anymore once again I'm Jason Cipriani with CNET how to make sure to come and check out how to see Netcom for more tech tips just like this one you