ESSENTIALS MAIN HUB + LAUNCHER ICON GOT LOST

[JESSE-JOEYs-123GH-Lab]

**Over the past week, I haven't been able to access the main hub of the Essentials app 📱🚫.

The main app icon no longer appears in the app launcher, home screen, or app drawer 🏡. However, the dedicated shortcut for the "Freeze" module—which is just a sub-section inside the Essentials UI—is still present and opens fine 👌.

When navigating to Settings > Apps, the main Essentials entry is visible and I can access the App Info screen 🤔. But tapping the "Open" button in the top-right corner still routes straight into that same Freeze section instead of the main app UI 😠.

I have obviously already tried the usual troubleshooting steps: clearing the cache, rebooting, and force stopping the app 🤔.

The only remaining option seems to be a complete uninstall and reinstall uninstalled reinstalled, but I'd really prefer not to configure everything from scratch again 😟.

Is there a way to back up or export my current configuration without accessing the main UI? Android's active apps menu confirms the app is still running in the background, and the Essentials Quick Settings tiles continue to function normally ⚙️.

Any advice, workarounds, or ADB tricks would be greatly appreciated!

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[sameerasw]

What device and OS?

[JESSE-JOEYs-123GH-Lab]

Sorry for the late reply.
Still not fixed.
I was hoping that it would fix itself with an update or so, but it didn't.

The thing is I didn't want to remove and reinstall the complete app, because of all the personalized preferences and options (and there are a lot of them in your application 🤗✌🏻)

But I guess there's no other solution than a complete removal and reinstall.

Pixel 10 Pro XL
Android 17

[sameerasw]

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