# So how do you like Nougat's pink home screen? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [November 21, 2017, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-how-do-you-like-nougats-pink-home-screen/802281 "2017-11-21T14:36:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2017, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-how-do-you-like-nougats-pink-home-screen/802281/1 "2017-11-21T14:36:57Z")
AT&T finally rolled out Nougat to my phone. The pink home screen was quite a WTF moment. I’m trying to give it a chance. But, damn! It’s Pink :eek: On a more serious note. Android’s new split screen is a bit confusing. I’m not sure how that will work on a phone’s screen. It makes more sense on a tablet. I already miss my empty screen. Now when you hit the square you get this split screen. I liked it better with just my desktop. For those of you that haven’t seen Nougat. Put your sunglasses on and take a look. > **[The Latest Technology Product Reviews, News, Tips, and Deals](https://www.pcmag.com/)** > > PCMag is your complete guide to computers, peripherals and upgrades. We test and review tech products and services, report technology news and trends, and provide shopping advice with price comparisons. ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2017, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-how-do-you-like-nougats-pink-home-screen/802281/2 "2017-11-21T14:54:48Z")
My wife informed me, my phone is Fuschia. This one. > **[\#D08AAF Hex Color | RGB: 208, 138, 175 | DEEP PINK, FUCHSIA, FUSCHIA, HOT...](https://www.colorcombos.com/colors/D08AAF)** > > \#D08AAF Hex Color Page containing the RGB, CMYK and HSV Web Color Codes for Web Hex #D08AAF, including color schemes, combinations and palettes that match the colour #D08AAF. :o I’ll give it a couple days. I may have to make a change. ---
**Author:** ![Doctor\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doctor_jackson/32/32_2.png) [@Doctor\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doctor_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2017, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-how-do-you-like-nougats-pink-home-screen/802281/3 "2017-11-21T15:15:03Z")
It’s his home, I suppose Ted can do with it as he pleases - barring an HOA. What? Nougat? Oh, never mind. ---
**Author:** ![Channing\_Idaho\_Banks](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/channing_idaho_banks/32/250_2.png) [@Channing\_Idaho\_Banks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Channing_Idaho_Banks)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2017, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-how-do-you-like-nougats-pink-home-screen/802281/4 "2017-11-21T15:23:36Z")
My tablet doesn’t show that. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2017, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-how-do-you-like-nougats-pink-home-screen/802281/5 "2017-11-21T15:24:32Z")
> [@aceplace57](#): > > My wife informed me, my phone is Fuschia. > This one. > [#D08AAF Hex Color | RGB: 208, 138, 175 | DEEP PINK, FUCHSIA, FUSCHIA, HOT PINK, MAGENTA, VIOLA](https://www.colorcombos.com/colors/D08AAF) > > :o > > I’ll give it a couple days. I may have to make a change. Stop worrying, we won’t think any less of you. ---
**Author:** ![naita](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/naita/32/5862_2.png) [@naita](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/naita)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2017, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-how-do-you-like-nougats-pink-home-screen/802281/6 "2017-11-21T15:45:09Z")
You know you can make the background anything you want, right? ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2017, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-how-do-you-like-nougats-pink-home-screen/802281/7 "2017-11-21T16:09:33Z")
> [@naita](#): > > You know you can make the background anything you want, right? Or indeed install a third-party launcher that works in a different way and doesn’t have non-removable search widgets etc ---
**Author:** ![gnoitall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bb73d2/32.png) [@gnoitall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gnoitall)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2017, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-how-do-you-like-nougats-pink-home-screen/802281/8 "2017-11-21T16:15:04Z")
> [@naita](#): > > You know you can make the background anything you want, right? > [@Mangetout](#): > > Or indeed install a third-party launcher that works in a different way and doesn’t have non-removable search widgets etc In fact, these are probably the only sane response to a fuchsia home screen. \ FWIW, I use ADW2 launcher on all my Android devices, except my no-name tablet that refuses to install it for some damn reason. 😕 ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2017, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-how-do-you-like-nougats-pink-home-screen/802281/9 "2017-11-21T16:22:24Z")
I use Arrow launcher - initially because I hoped it would be a little bit Metro-UI-like, but now I don’t care. ---
**Author:** ![gnoitall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bb73d2/32.png) [@gnoitall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gnoitall)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2017, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-how-do-you-like-nougats-pink-home-screen/802281/10 "2017-11-21T16:22:54Z")
> [@aceplace57](#): > > AT&T finally rolled out Nougat to my phone. > > The pink home screen was quite a WTF moment. > > I’m trying to give it a chance. But, damn! It’s Pink :eek: > > On a more serious note. Android’s new split screen is a bit confusing. I’m not sure how that will work on a phone’s screen. It makes more sense on a tablet. > > I already miss my empty screen. Now when you hit the square you get this split screen. I liked it better with just my desktop. I’m tempted to go all Steve Jobs and say “you’re pressing it wrong”. Because that square menu button, on a brief press (a touch), should just give you the screen list of current and recent programs. Press-and-hold the square menu button for a screen split. (This changes the menu icon to a “split square” that you can press-and-hold again to undo the split. > [@](#): > > For those of you that haven’t seen Nougat. > > Put your sunglasses on and take a look. > [http://in.pcmag.com/google-android-70-n/106024/news/google-android-nougat-will-get-a-refreshed-home-screen](http://in.pcmag.com/google-android-70-n/106024/news/google-android-nougat-will-get-a-refreshed-home-screen) My upgrade to 7.x didn’t turn my screen pink. In fact, upgrading from Marshmallow to Nougat changed very little visually; my chosen background remained, and icons and widgets I had earlier came back (with slightly updated icon graphics, but no big whoop.) But I am using an aftermarket launcher and a non-standard background, so I guess Google knew better than to mess with it. ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2017, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-how-do-you-like-nougats-pink-home-screen/802281/11 "2017-11-21T16:41:54Z")
> [@Mangetout](#): > > Or indeed install a third-party launcher that works in a different way and doesn’t have non-removable search widgets etc I may end up going to a third part launcher. I wanted to give stock nougat a try out first. My mom’s Samsung Galaxy S2 tablet already had nougat when she bought it. Her screen is a gorgeous blue. I guess that’s something Samsung picked. Andriod is a little different on her tablet. ---
**Author:** ![AlsoNamedBort](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alsonamedbort/32/3213_2.png) [@AlsoNamedBort](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AlsoNamedBort)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2017, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-how-do-you-like-nougats-pink-home-screen/802281/12 "2017-11-21T17:36:09Z")
Are you just talking about the background? You can change that, no third party launcher at all. ---
**Author:** ![ISiddiqui](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/97f17d/32.png) [@ISiddiqui](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ISiddiqui)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2017, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-how-do-you-like-nougats-pink-home-screen/802281/13 "2017-11-21T17:38:45Z")
Your phone has taken a long time to get to Android N. We are on Android O now (only for Pixel and Nexus phones at the moment though). ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2017, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-how-do-you-like-nougats-pink-home-screen/802281/14 "2017-11-21T20:26:43Z")
> [@ISiddiqui](#): > > Your phone has taken a long time to get to Android N. We are on Android O now (only for Pixel and Nexus phones at the moment though). I’m still on Marshmallow and unlikely to get an upgrade until I get a new phone. No matter. As others have said, you can save any image as your wallpaper. As for a custom launcher, Nova Launcher is pretty good. ---
**Author:** ![Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tim_r.mortiss/32/142_2.png) [@Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tim_R.Mortiss)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2017, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-how-do-you-like-nougats-pink-home-screen/802281/15 "2017-11-21T20:37:04Z")
My phone came with Nougat, but the first thing I did was what I always do: install Nova launcher and customize to my heart’s content. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2017, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-how-do-you-like-nougats-pink-home-screen/802281/16 "2017-11-21T20:37:05Z")
> [@aceplace57](#): > > Andriod is a little different on her tablet. It’s generally a little bit different on every device - or at least different between brands. Manufacturers are tending toward deploying a more ‘stock’ Android experience at the moment - mainly, I think, because Google Pixel proved that people like that - but most of them do tweak it a little bit, and especially in the preloaded wallpaper and lock screen background - but both are usually\* pretty simple to change. \*I have encountered one phone - the Bluboo S1 - which does not permit the user to change the lock screen background - the option just isn’t there.