Android kiosk floating peripheral icon gets stuck and blocks right-side touch input on Lenovo tabletSolved

Hey, @noah-blake! This behavior can happen if the floating peripheral settings icon or its gesture area overlaps with interactive UI elements in kiosk mode. If the issue is only that the icon is covering the keyboard or a button, try changing the default floating icon position:

1. Go to Policies.
2. Open the Android kiosk policy applied to the device.
3. Navigate to Android Kiosk Lockdown > Peripheral Settings.
4. Locate the Floating Icon configuration.
5. Move the icon to a different corner, such as Bottom Right.
6. Save the policy and allow it to sync to the device.

However, if the entire right side of the screen is not registering touch input, check the Tap and swipe gesture option under Peripheral Settings. On some device models, this gesture area may interfere with touch input along the screen edge.

To troubleshoot this:

1. Open the kiosk policy.
2. Go to Android Kiosk Lockdown > Peripheral Settings.
3. Disable the Tap and swipe gesture option.
4. Save the policy.
5. Restart the device after the policy update. A restart is important because peripheral setting changes may not fully clear until the device reboots.

Changing the icon position alone did not really address it for me because the icon is supposed to be draggable. The bigger issue is that the rightmost strip of the Lenovo screen stops accepting taps. The login button and keyboard backspace key are both on that side, so they become unusable. After a reboot, the icon starts floating again, but it froze once while I was testing.

Interesting! In that case, the issue is likely not the icon position itself but the gesture handling from the kiosk peripheral setting. The working fix is to disable Tap and swipe gesture in the Android kiosk peripheral settings, save the policy, push a fresh sync, and then restart the Lenovo tablet. After the reboot, reapply or resync the kiosk policy so the device receives the updated peripheral configuration cleanly. This should restore touch responsiveness on the right side of the screen and allow the app buttons and keyboard keys to work again.

That matches what I saw. Once the Tap and swipe gesture option was unchecked and the tablet was restarted, the right-side touch area started working again. The login button and backspace key are responding now, and the floating icon is no longer blocking input.