Removing apps from recent apps screen

[Blastosister]

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Hi, is there any way to remove apps from the bottom of the recent apps screen shown above? Brave seems to stay there constantly even though I have it set to hidden in an attempt to reduce usage.

Thanks.

[ynneL · Accepted solution]

Press the 3 dots select settings and turn off show recommended apps

[Pugs1957]

Those aren't recently used apps that are being shown, they are the usual buttons to run an app.

[Blastosister]

Brilliant. Thank you

[ynneL]

No problem glad it helped

[scotty82447]

The 3 dots in the top corner then it will say settings press it then it says show recommended apps and trun it off and that's you

[fastauntie]

Thanks. I'm glad to stop seeing the recommended app icons, because most are ones I don't use at all ("recommendations"=advertising). But that doesn't allow recent app icons to display instead, which is what I'm looking for. Until the update I received today (Android 12, OneUI 4.1, I'm not entirely sure what was included because they never give details), pressing Recents button at lower right showed a row of recent app icons at bottom of the screen. Now I got this unchangeable set of recommended app icons instead. I hoped turning them off would bring back my recents but it doesn't--the space is just blank. I've learned that developers say they'll restore recent app icons in a future update, and that in the meantime you can configure an edge panel to show recent apps, which I hope others will find useful until they've reverted from this stupid change.

[oathbound]

Yes, I am also glad to be rid of these "recommended" apps (which I would like to uninstall entirely).  But I want the recently closed apps back.