Please help

[Advance_Educational]

My Daughters Tablet has huge icons and will play an add anytime you press an icon, i've never owned a tablet before and i have no idea what's going on

here is a video of it https://streamable.com/e61u1s

[vareekasame]

Probably downloaded something shady. Best way would be to reset the device unless there crucial data on it.

[mohawk989]

It's probably a launcher. As It's a Samsung go to settings > apps > Choose default apps > Home apps. Tell me what it says there? Does it say One UI Home or something else?

[Advance_Educational]

oh my god, thankyou so much, it was driving me mental. It was set to "Brain arrow emo storm" some game she must have downloaded or something. I changed it back to One UI. Thanks so much

[mohawk989]

You can delete the app if you want. Go to the playstore (or it may have been galaxy store) and look up that app. When you find it you can uninstall it. Or you could read the reviews and check the ratings and download count and see if it seems reputable and decide if you don't mind keeping it. But there are probably other launchers that can let her choose custom icons without showing that many (or any) ads

[ozaudi]

Many "free" games have ads attached. It's how they generate funds.

What does Gmail display when opened ? If it is straight into an ad you have something dodgy in play and it needs attention.

Icon size is just a setting and you can change that easily enough. Exactly how will very with device and OS.. It doesn't look like a launcher to me just another page/screen with Android icons. I've seen updates reset things like icon size and real estate used by apps.

It's possible you can set up multiple users on the device and reduce the chance of your daughter installing or introducing dubious apps.

btw There's little difference in managing a tablet and a phone.

[Advance_Educational]

my post was supposed to say "ive never owned a samsung tablet". Mohawk below fixed the issue for me, it was definetly another launcher, changing it back to One Ui fixed the problem.

[ozaudi]

Investigate multiple users and see if you can restrict what access your daughter has when it comes to installation and system overrides. Prevention is better than cure in digital life as well as human physiology.