Projectivy Launcher Backup and Restore: Save Your Layout Before You Need It

Nobody thinks about backups until the evening the layout vanishes. Start from Projectivy Launcher for Android and save the layout you already like, and a new TV or a bad experiment costs minutes instead of an evening.

What a backup saves

A backup saves the layout you spent an evening building: your categories, your row order, your wallpaper choice, and your input shortcuts. It does not save the apps themselves, which still come from the official listing, but it saves every decision about where those apps live. That distinction matters when you move to a new TV.

Back up before big changes

Make a backup before you reorganize rows, before you hand the remote to someone for a big tidy up, and before you change wallpapers and icons in one sitting. A backup made five minutes before a change is worth more than a perfect layout rebuilt from memory afterwards. Treat it like saving a document before an edit. See also the Projectivy Launcher setup guide for the step by step version.

Restore on a new TV

On a new TV, install Projectivy Launcher, set it as the default, and restore the backup before you start tweaking. The rows land in the order your household already knows, so the new TV feels familiar on the first evening. Check input shortcuts after a restore, because a new TV may expose different inputs than the old one. Pair this with the fixes guide when you rebuild the rows.

Keep two backups

Keep two backups when you can: one of the layout that works today, and one of the last experiment. If an experiment goes wrong, you restore the working layout in minutes. If the experiment works, it becomes the new working backup. Rotate them so the working backup is never more than a month old.