I want it to have various fixes along these lines to become more useful and reliable along the way! Let me know what you think about the new alphabetical app launcher sorting feature, and for fun, tell me which sorting method you’ll keep in play.

By this, I mean that I intentionally tested making changes to app order before sorting, and those changes did not stick.Ĭhromebooks have had this issue for years, and rebooting your device often wipes your efforts, but my great hope is that the new Productivity launcher isn’t just a pretty face. Instead of placing my apps and folders exactly where I had them, it puts them in the order they were in moments before I sorted. Sorting back to ‘My order’ does currently cause one problem though. It’s practical, it’s functional, and it gets the job done – why complicate it, right? I would imagine that the UI takes a more stylish approach before launch, but the devs will probably just slap a material circle around each arrow and call it a day. Select the 'More' option and then choose 'Sort Z-A' or 'Sort A-Z. Simply tap the letter or number header designating the column or row twice to open the menu.

For now, this is in very early development for Chrome OS Canary. If you want to sort an entire row or column, there's another way you can get to the sort feature in the app.

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