diff --git a/quickstep/src/com/android/launcher3/taskbar/TaskbarBackgroundRenderer.kt b/quickstep/src/com/android/launcher3/taskbar/TaskbarBackgroundRenderer.kt
index cf3af08819..82f27ae9e5 100644
--- a/quickstep/src/com/android/launcher3/taskbar/TaskbarBackgroundRenderer.kt
+++ b/quickstep/src/com/android/launcher3/taskbar/TaskbarBackgroundRenderer.kt
@@ -113,7 +113,7 @@ class TaskbarBackgroundRenderer(context: TaskbarActivityContext) {
             // Approximates the stash/unstash animation to transform the background.
             val scaleFactor = backgroundHeight / maxBackgroundHeight
             val width = transientBackgroundBounds.width()
-            val widthScale = mapToRange(scaleFactor, 0f, 1f, 0.4f, 1f, Interpolators.LINEAR)
+            val widthScale = mapToRange(scaleFactor, 0f, 1f, 0.2f, 1f, Interpolators.LINEAR)
             val newWidth = widthScale * width
             val delta = width - newWidth
             canvas.translate(0f, bottomMargin * ((1f - scaleFactor) / 2f))
diff --git a/quickstep/src/com/android/launcher3/taskbar/TaskbarStashController.java b/quickstep/src/com/android/launcher3/taskbar/TaskbarStashController.java
index 6b7bfa0d9d..2fb4bb483b 100644
--- a/quickstep/src/com/android/launcher3/taskbar/TaskbarStashController.java
+++ b/quickstep/src/com/android/launcher3/taskbar/TaskbarStashController.java
@@ -114,7 +114,7 @@ public class TaskbarStashController implements TaskbarControllers.LoggableTaskba
     /**
      * The scale TaskbarView animates to when being stashed.
      */
-    private static final float STASHED_TASKBAR_SCALE = 0.5f;
+    private static final float STASHED_TASKBAR_SCALE = 0.3f;
 
     /**
      * How long the hint animation plays, starting on motion down.
@@ -516,8 +516,7 @@ public class TaskbarStashController implements TaskbarControllers.LoggableTaskba
         }
         mAnimator = new AnimatorSet();
         addJankMonitorListener(mAnimator, /* appearing= */ !mIsStashed);
-        final float stashTranslation = isPhoneMode() ? 0 :
-                (mUnstashedHeight - mStashedHeight) / 2f;
+        final float stashTranslation = isPhoneMode() ? 0 : (mUnstashedHeight - mStashedHeight);
 
         if (!supportsVisualStashing()) {
             // Just hide/show the icons and background instead of stashing into a handle.