[Update: Mar. 23] PSA: Xiaomi warns users of System Launcher crashes due to technical error

New updates are being added at the bottom of this story…

Original story (published on May 14, 2020) follows:

Xiaomi has released a public service announcement for bringing to light bugs related to the latest update of the System Launcher application version 4.15.0.1436-02271549.

The Chinese OEM, took to its official community website to make its users aware of several bugs and issues that have surfaced on the System Launcher application that is showing ‘application stopped working‘ error message.

Xiaomi has coined this as a technical error and has also advised the users to avoid updating to the System Launcher version 4.15.0.1436-02271549.

Xiaomi also came up with a fix for those who have already updated the System Launcher application with the buggy version. In order to get rid of the crash error message, users are required to uninstall the updates of the launcher app. To do that:

1. Open Settings>>Apps and search for Launcher.
2. Tap on the application and click on Uninstall Updates button at the bottom of the page.

Moreover, Xiaomi also was quick to release a new version of the update 4.17.0.1870-05091136, which was meant to fix the bugs and issues related to the previous buggy version of the launcher app.

But as per user reports, this new version of the System Launcher app for Xiaomi phones also turned to be buggy. There are several user reports that have claimed that the app version 4.17.0.1870-05091136 his still suffering from the same crash errors as the previous version.

Here are some of the reports:

Just updated the system launcher and it’s crashing :/

(Source)

I just installed the system launcher update and it froze the phone, Redmi 5 Plus. I could not access any of the apps, until I uninstalled the update which has messed up my apps badly. Such a bad update

(Source)

After installing the latest version of the system launcher the launcher keeps crashing making it impossible to access anything on the phone, can’t even access settings.

Even after restarting the phone a crash report pops up and restarts the launcher automatically, after the restart the launcher keeps crashing, making it impossible to open anything luckily i have the play store on the bottom and was able to tap it before the crash.

I had to install nova launcher to fix this issue if any other users encounter this problem change launcher or uninstall the update until they fix this.

System Launcher Version: Release-4.17.0.1870-05091136.

Avoid this update until a fix is made.

(Source)

Thankfully, after the System Launcher Version 4.17.0.1870-05091136, some more new versions of the system launcher app were released by Xiaomi which, we hope has fixed the error with the launcher app.

If you wish to download the latest version of the Xiaomi System Launcher app, then you can head over to APK Mirror to grab the APK file.

Let us know in the comments below if you also faced issues with the launcher app on your Xiaomi phone after the update or not?

12:43 pm (IST): There’s now a new related issue at Google’s end which Xiaomi just acknowledged. The “MSA and other apps keep stopping” bug has been troubling users for a while but there’s an official workaround.

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