How to Prevent Xiaomi Icons from Moving by Themselves

The home screen of our mobiles is very important as it is the place we usually use to place the icons and therefore quick access to the main apps. This, however, can become a problem, as some users have seen how the icons move in Xiaomi and therefore mislead us when trying to use an app quickly.

Prevent Xiaomi Icons from Moving by Themselves

This problem has existed in Xiaomi mobiles for several generations and the problem lies in MIUI. There is no specific version that suffers more problems than another, since MIUI 8 produces this problem that not everyone knows how to solve. The “failure” can go many days without happening to us and suddenly we meet him.

MIUI moves the icons on its own

Although for many this may seem like a failure, it is an option that is widely internalized in the Asian continent, but not so much in Europe and other areas of the world. The options with the icons in MIUI are designed so that by default the icons are always in perfect columns, something that is not always what we want. For this reason, the applications move and this happens especially when moving an icon or when uninstalling one of the apps.

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Luckily for us there is a solution like so many others in MIUI, we will only have to access the Settings> Home screen section and deactivate the “Fill gaps of uninstalled applications” option. Just by doing this the problem would be solved and the icons should not be moved again in Xiaomi, Redmi or Poco ; all brands that use MIUI as a customization layer.

Lock layout for added security

In case, even having followed the previous steps, the icons move by themselves , we have an advanced solution that will prevent us from even moving them ourselves. To use it we have to go back to the settings> Home screen and select the option “Lock home screen design”.

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With this change, the design grid that we have chosen cannot be modified and neither can the icons. If we do the test we will find that we can delete the app, but not move it, the system will alert us with the message “The screen design was started is blocked”. In order to change it, we will have to repeat the previous steps and unlock it.