Apex Launcher and Oreo Not Allowing Play Store Shortcut creation

[niagara94]

Hi,

I am running android 8 on a Samsung S3 and in a Samsung 8+. I am also using the Apex launcher on both devices. My problem is that when I install apps from the Google Play store there are no longer shortcuts placed on the home screens like there used to be and like I would like there to be. any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

 

[Dannydet]

Switch to Nova launcher. Works fine.

 

[mikedt]

Reading through all the recent one star Play Store reviews of Apex, seems a lot of people are howling about it now....

"Latest update removed a lot of functionality that I was used to (and that I got the pro version for)."

"Nothing like a major update to break so many parts of what was once the best launcher."

"Latest update is horrible. Removed lots of the functionality I enjoyed about this app."

"This latest update did much damage to the otherwise beautiful and best launcher."

....and so on.

Suggest you find an alternative, like Nova Launcher is good.

 

[Hadron]

Hmm, I've had a flick through Apex settings and don't see one for that (though as I loathe the phone adding things itself it's not something I would miss - different strokes and all that).

Nova certainly does have such a setting

 

[niagara94]

Thank you everyone for the replies. I tried Nova but it didn't create shortcuts. Of course I didn't realize that there was a setting to change lol.