Help Strange Box on home screen

[pastabrooks]

Recently after I did a factory reset (installed the same apps I had before) a strange blue (see photo) appears on my phone homescreen icon. What could be the cause of this?

 

[Mar]

I keep getting it as well but not sure why it started happening. It wasn't there in previous updates

 

[Heisenberg123]

ive seen that a few random times it usually goes away after going to app drawer and back to home screen, does your stay all the time?

 

[XplosiV]

I think you'll find it's just a selection indicator, like when you use a controller with a D-pad on a console. My old galaxy portal had a built in D-pad and would select items like this. Just ignore it.

 

[pastabrooks]

Its just weird and no it dosent stay there all the time. And i am currently having another problem now, it started today. When I download apps outside the play store (I enabled install from unknown sources) then tap the install icon nothing happens, it dosent seem to respond to the touch but the cancle button does. Why does that happen? I might just have to do a factory reset for the second time. :'(

 

[funkylogik]

Could the box thing be something checked in developer options?

 

[SUSS]

Could the box thing be something checked in developer options?

What i was thinking, the layout boundaries or something.

 

[funkylogik]

It does look kinda like that mate
(Layout boundaries turned on)

 

[Mar]

I checked and my layout boundaries were never checked on. It just looks like a selection thing but it wasn't there before some updates ago. Now sometimes it just appears there

 

[pastabrooks]

I checked mine just now. There is nothing I did there. I even turned off developer options

 

[pastabrooks]

I just did a factory reset. It's fine now.

 

[xacto]

Indeed, after last update, I get that box once in a while myself, it doesn't stay after I touch the screen, but I am definitely getting that.