[Q] After an app update, the app icon disappears from home screen - Nexus 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

I've seen this recurrently happening on my Nexus 5 (stock on 4.4.2).
I have an app shortcut on my home screen. An update becomes available for the app, so I update.
the icon vanishes from the home screen but the app is updated correctly and is in the app drawer.
I just need to drag it onto the home screen again to create a new shortcut.
Why is this happening? Can I prevent it? A search of the forums here only suggests that itc possibly because the icon is updated as part of the update and therefore the old app icon is removed? hmm... The app icon looks the same each time, but I suppose it could be that reason.
Thanks guys.

This sometimes happens, when the app gets a new or updated icon.
If this won't happens on all app updates, all is fine
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FunkyMagic-UK said:
After installing new apps, sometimes the icon appears in a new screen, sometimes I get a blank screen (that I can't remove until I reboot), sometimes nothing happens (and a new screen with shortcuts appears after a reboot).
Is this just me?
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This happens because sometimes after installing a new app, we move from that screen or perform another action before the new apps icon can be placed by default on a new screen. This results in a blank screen with nothing on it. You can't move or delete the homescreen because it renders that there should be a new app shortcut there, but we don't see one. So what i've done to avoid this is, wait for the app shortcut to push to the home screen, the remove it and that automatically gets rid of the home screen.
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That new function is similar to that of iOS, when installing a new app, it tries to show you the shortcut to what you just installed, rather than having you manually create the short cut yourself.
Kind of annoying - agreed, but you adjust. It's second nature to me now.
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Derekwolfee said:
You can have it not put the icons on your home screen by default in Google play settings. The option is place widgets on homescreen automatically. Disable that and newly downloaded apps stay in your app drawer for you to place manually if you want.
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Nope, still happens with that disabled..
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chopper the dog said:
Nope, still happens with that disabled..
good day.
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