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How To Fix “Unfortunately, TouchWiz Home has stopped” On Samsung Galaxy

Samsung always remained under severe criticism because of its TouchWiz Home launcher. Over the past few years, we saw great improvements in the Galaxy devices, but users always got disappointed when it came to the software running on these devices. At first, Samsung Galaxy devices include a lot of bloatware apps, and then its the TouchWiz Home launcher that slows it down further. TouchWiz Home is lags at times and doesn’t respond. A very simple solution to get rid of the TouchWiz issues is to use some other launcher from the Play Store, but then you will loose the stock touch, look and feel of the device. While most of the users chose to stick to the stock TouchWiz Home launcher, they need to resolve the issues with this launcher.

A very common issue that occurs with the TouchWiz Home Launcher is the force stop error. You might come across this “Unfortunately, TouchWiz Home has stopped” error while using your device normally, and you might have to restart your device to get rid of this as it simply hangs the device. But what if the issue comes up again after restarting the device and doesn’t go away at any cost? You need a different solution in this case. If you’re having this issue right at the moment and you came here while looking for a solution. You made the right choice.

We are going to fix the “Unfortunately, TouchWiz Home has stopped” issue in the following post. Let’s move ahead and solve this right away. The following solutions will work on all Samsung Galaxy Devices whether your device is running on Android Gingerbread, JellyBean, KitKat or Lollipop.

How To Fix “Unfortunately, TouchWiz Home has stopped” On Samsung Galaxy

First of all you need to boot your device in safe mode. To do so turn off your device completely.
Now turn it on, while it boots up, keep the volume down key pressed.
Leave the key as soon as your phone completely boots up. You will find “Safe Mode” notification on the bottom left. Now you’re set to fix the TouchWiz Home.
Now while you’re in the safe mode, tap the app drawer and navigate to settings app.
In settings open application manager > now open all applications > select TouchWiz Home.
You will have TouchWiz Home settings now. Wipe TouchWiz Home data and cache.
Now reboot your device.
Your issue should be resolve now.

Method#2:

If the solution written above doesn’t help you, you may try wiping your device’s cache.
To do so, simply turn off your phone.
Now turn it on while pressing and holding Volume Up + Home + Power Key.
Leave the keys as soon as your device boots up.
Now using Volume Up & Down keys navigate to Wipe Cache Partition, select it using Power Key and wipe it.
Once you’ve wiped it, reboot your device and check if your issue has been resolved or not.
That’s all.

That’s all. If your issue still persists, reach us out through the comment box below. We will try to help you out. Thank you all.

Usama M

Usama is a software engineer by profession and at TechBeasts.com he uses his expertise to solve everyday consumer tech problems with his main areas of interest being Android, iOS and Windows.

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gaurav says:

March 12, 2016 at 6:52 am

samsung galaxy j2 is a load of crap, the touchwiz problem is still there , can you please advise what else can be done
jeff says:

March 15, 2016 at 1:11 am

Method 1 just wiped all apps off all pages except home page and i still get error message and cant put anything back on pages. Now i have 4 blank pages. Can you tell me how to fix this
- um009 says:
  
  March 15, 2016 at 8:45 am
  
  @disqus_qa40uxt2s0:disqus boot into recovery and clear the cache of your phone. If this doesn't help, then flash a stock firmware, the issue should be resolved.
  - jeff says:
    
    March 25, 2016 at 1:32 pm
    
    I ended up installing a different launcher instead. Thanks for the help though.
Kevin Grewcock says:

April 7, 2016 at 8:53 am

I have just followed method 1, which doesn't seem to have worked. However, 7 pages of apps, folders, widgets and shortcuts to Internet pages haves all disappeared. Thanks a lot for the warning. NOT. This is going to take days/weeks to get it back to somewhere near what it was 😠😠😠😠😠
- um009 says:
  
  April 7, 2016 at 9:24 pm
  
  @kevingrewcock:disqus try wiping your cache and dalvik cache.. your phone should be back to normal.
  - um009 says:
    
    April 7, 2016 at 9:25 pm
    
    or else you can try a different launcher to get those pages back.
  - Kevin Grewcock says:
    
    April 8, 2016 at 3:44 am
    
    How do you do that? I have started putting things back, will that affect things?
    - um009 says:
      
      April 8, 2016 at 9:51 pm
      
      @kevingrewcock:disqus just install a new launcher from Google Play Star. You can try the Google Home Launcher or the Nova Launcher to resolve this issue. Best of luck.
Hime-chan says:

April 13, 2016 at 10:09 am

All the theme elements of several themes have gotten mixed up on my galaxy S6 phone after I ran a software update. After the update it says Touchwiz has stopped and the phone switches off automatically at random times.The notification panel is of a different theme and the the keyboard is from a different theme.
Hime-chan says:

April 13, 2016 at 10:12 am

The phone switches off if I change my theme.
Hime-chan says:

April 13, 2016 at 10:15 am

All the theme elements of several themes have gotten mixed up on my galaxy S6 phone after I ran a software update. After the update it says Touchwiz has stopped and the phone switches off automatically at random times.The notification panel is of a different theme and the the keyboard is from a different theme.
- um009 says:
  
  April 16, 2016 at 4:45 pm
  
  @gayathirir312:disqus use a different launcher like Nova Launcher or Google Home.
  - Hime-chan says:
    
    April 20, 2016 at 11:10 am
    
    Thanks :)
Wanda Rutherford Covington says:

June 28, 2016 at 6:47 pm

just exactly does "wipe" mean?
- um009 says:
  
  June 29, 2016 at 8:57 pm
  
  @wandarutherfordcovington:disqus Wipe means clear here.
Wanda Rutherford Covington says:

June 30, 2016 at 5:23 pm

Well, it didn't work. Sorry (for me)
Nazariy says:

August 8, 2016 at 8:50 pm

I have a 'slightly' more severe problem. Every time I turn on my device (Samsung Galaxy Tab 2) I type in my password and log in. The screen after that is all black and the error "Unfortunately, TouchWiz Home has stopped" appears, after I pass through the error, I can see my top bar where all notifications are and I can go there. If I try to activate any app (even setings) it will freeze, the error returns and the only option left is to resart it. Do ya got a fix for that?
- um009 says:
  
  August 8, 2016 at 9:27 pm
  
  @disqus_GxCqINsZ17:disqus you can try clearing cache and dalvik cache using a custom recovery. That might help, if that fails as well then you will have to flash a stock firmware only.
ayu says:

August 20, 2016 at 12:28 pm

hello. same problem here. unfotunately, touchWiz Home has stopped. But i even cannot click app button. every time click, same error appeared. so i cannot go to setting or what ever apps.. pls helps. I'm using samsung A5.
- um009 says:
  
  August 20, 2016 at 9:40 pm
  
  @disqus_icIDIlR6uT:disqus did you install any third party launcher recently? If so then uninstall it. If you havent already cleared cache/dalvik cache, then flash a custom recovery and wipe dalvik cache as it can be helpful.
  - ayu says:
    
    August 22, 2016 at 6:08 am
    
    It happened after i updated latest lollipop version.