After an update, X changed or broke

An update can move a control or show you a tip you haven't seen. Your setup itself — your skies (your separate home-screen setups), stars, and settings — lives on your device, so an update finds it where you left it. Here's how to get your bearings.

#A coaching tip appeared

Zenith shows small one-time tips the first time you use a feature. Each fires once, and a tap marks it as seen — so they don't come back after an update. If one shows up, it's normal: read it and tap to dismiss.

#A control moved

Some things shift between versions. The most common: changing a star's icon — a star is an app, folder, or shortcut you've placed — now lives under edit in the ring's corner dock. While the ring, a wheel of your apps, is held, the dock's four buttons are add, re-place (lift the armed star to a new angle or distance from the center), edit, and remove.

#What changed in 1.2.0

• Settings › system › hide status bar is now "Immersion mode". It hides the status bar and the gesture bar; if you had the old switch on, it's on.
• The tap and navigation sounds are back.
• The welcome card no longer sits behind the bar at the top of the screen.
• The welcome now has a "notifications" step, and a no to location or notifications says so in one line.
• The "timer" and "new alarm" shortcuts open your Clock app again.
• Zenith set icons no longer show up blank.
• Zenith now tells you correctly whether it's your home app.
• Sharing to the launcher only offers regions you can see.
• Renaming a sky shows the new name right away.
• Switching skies quickly can no longer save over the wrong sky.
• Choosing a default icon pack through ask the sky finds your installed icon packs.
• Suite settings changed in another Zenith app apply when you come back to the launcher.
• The shuttle tells you what really happened when you add to it, and stays on your phone, also through Android's phone backups.
• Removing a linked Google account also cancels its permission at Google.
• Labels are never cut through an emoji or an accent.
• Link stars open only web, email and Zenith addresses; any other address is copied.

#Something actually broke

1. Back up your setup first — open the star chart page and tap "back up all" to save a .zbak file. See Backup / restore & new-phone data loss.
2. Check what changed in the release notes — see Changelog.
3. If a permission or service stopped after the update, re-grant it: comets, zenith actions, and the quick ring each need their system permission. See Zenith gets killed / notifications die after reboot.

#Check your version

To see which version you're on, open About Zenith Launcher.

See also. Changelog · I lost / can't find X · Backup / restore & new-phone data loss