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You told us: Android users are split on how much they customize their phones
August 01, 2025
Android is an extremelycustomizableOS. You can change the entirehome screen launcher,icon pack,wallpaper, and more. On some devices, you can even changethe way your software behavesat a system level. You used to have to root your Android phone to allow this level of customization, but now it’s offered by default by a lot of smartphone OEMs.
Last week, we asked you how much you customize your Android phone. Do you just do simple things like change the icon layout and wallpaper? Or do you go all out and make a completely custom interface? Out of over 6,300 total votes across thewebsiteandTwitter, a surprising amount of you only customize a handful of things.
How much do you customize your Android experience?
According to polls on the website and Twitter, the majority ofAndroid Authorityreaders (43.58%) only customize a handful of things on their smartphones. Icon packs, wallpapers, and the general layout of the home screen are all easy enough customizations to make out of the box, so it’s no surprise to see this as the front runner in the poll.
Add that to the 18.3% of voters who say they customize very little on their smartphones, and you have a total of 61.88% of voters (or 3,931 participants) who only really customize the bare essentials.
30.64% of voters say they customize everything — icon packs, device themes, wallpapers, home screen launchers, etc. I’m assuming these are also the voters who used to (or still do) root their phones to add even more customization to their phones.
Finally, 7.48% of voters say they don’t customize anything at all.
Here’s what you had to say
Here are some of the best comments from last week’s poll explaining why they voted the way that they did:
That’s it for this week. As always, thanks for voting, thanks for the comments, and don’t forget to let us know what you thought of the results below!
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