The Tips Are Excellent. I think it's going to be very, very helpful to me.

I have a Moto z Droid and it came with marshmallow os and then updated to nougat and everything was fine and was looking forward to Oreo - updated to Oreo just a few days ago ( June 2018) and the 'downloads' application isn't anywhere in the menu. It disappeared ..Set aside ALL work arounds, is this normal ? What happened to this very convenient application and why did they take it out of the app menu ? Is this just me or can anyone else verify this?

All my Os had file manager so I know how to do a work around but I like the downloads application better. I googled this and it doesn't seem like much info is out there..