How to fix unfortunately Touchwiz home has stopped error in Galaxy S5, S6 & S7

Samsung uses the Touchwiz UI which is a very intuitive and colorful user interface with loads of user experiencing enhancing features. However, it is also prone to errors like the “unfortunately, Touchwiz home has stopped” error that crashes the system launcher. Samsung Galaxy S4, S5, S6 and even the latest S7 edge is getting this error message. As you can guess this is an error related to the Touchwiz launcher app. The error causes the launcher to force close each time you perform simple UI actions like swiping on the Android home screen. Tapping Ok will close the error window but it pops up again after a few seconds.

Many users have fixed this error by simply clearing the cache of “Touchwiz Home” from the app settings. Others have solved it by rebooting into recovery and wiping cache partition. Another method involves disabling motions and gestures from settings. There are several solutions to Touchwiz has stopped error and they are mentioned below:

Before trying the different methods, you should do a simple reboot test. Turn off your device and remove the battery. After a minute insert battery and then turn on your smartphone and see if that fixes the error. If it didn’t work proceed to the methods below:

[FIXED]  Unfortunately Touchwiz home has stopped error in Galaxy S4, S5, S6 and S7 edge

Method 1: Wipe cache partition

Wiping cache partition is known to fix app related issues like Google Play Services error, Google apps has stopped error and force closing of various apps. Here is how you can wipe cache partition of Samsung Galaxy S4, S5, S6 and S7:

1. Turn off your smartphone
2. Hold power, volume up and home button at once
3. Now when you see the blue screen release the buttons
4. In the recovery menu, use volume keys to select “wipe cache partition”
5. Press power button to wipe cache partition
6. Now go back and select “reboot system”

Method 2: Turn off motions and gestures

1. Go to settings >> Motions and gestures
2. Disable or turn off all the options

Note: You can leave air gestures on if you want

Method 3: Set Animation scale “5x to 5x”

1. Go to Settings >> More >> About device
2. Now tap the “build number” several times until you see the notification that “developer options enabled”
3. Now go to settings >> developer option >> Windows Animation scale
4. Select “5x to 5x”

Method 4: Install a different launcher

Because the Touchwiz launcher is glitching, you may want to install a different launcher. Please note that you may lose some user interface features while installing third party launchers. NOVA is a famous android launcher featuring a clean, stock Android interface, Go to Google Play and install “NOVA launcher”. After installation tap on “Nova launcher” or Nova settings and then set NOVA as your default launcher. You can also set Nova as default home launcher like this: Go to settings >> Home >> select home >. Nova launcher. On LG smartphones you will have to go to

One of the above methods will most likely solve the unfortunately Touchwiz has stopped error on your Samsung smartphone. If you have any other solution or fix, please drop a comment.