diff --git a/lib/app.php b/lib/app.php
index 3a4e21e8cd1e9f49730f79ef549be77d05ddbded..c7e20a9fa965b8c730e6792601eed4ee03075402 100644
--- a/lib/app.php
+++ b/lib/app.php
@@ -285,6 +285,23 @@ class OC_App{
 		return true;
 	}
 
+	/**
+	 * @brief Get the navigation entries for the $app
+	 * @param string $app app
+	 * @return array of the $data added with addNavigationEntry
+	 */
+	public static function getAppNavigationEntries($app) {
+		if(is_file(self::getAppPath($app).'/appinfo/app.php')) {
+			$save = self::$navigation;
+			self::$navigation = array();
+			require $app.'/appinfo/app.php';
+			$app_entries = self::$navigation;
+			self::$navigation = $save;
+			return $app_entries;
+		}
+		return array();
+	}
+
 	/**
 	 * @brief gets the active Menu entry
 	 * @return string id or empty string
diff --git a/settings/ajax/navigationdetect.php b/settings/ajax/navigationdetect.php
index 93acb50dc200adffd78285b94fc46c4d084839be..d21f774126cd8a4b5b83b9d304946e377067339a 100644
--- a/settings/ajax/navigationdetect.php
+++ b/settings/ajax/navigationdetect.php
@@ -5,10 +5,7 @@ OCP\JSON::callCheck();
 
 $app = $_GET['app'];
 
-//load the one app and see what it adds to the navigation
-OC_App::loadApp($app);
-
-$navigation = OC_App::getNavigation();
+$navigation = OC_App::getAppNavigationEntries($app);
 
 $navIds = array();
 foreach ($navigation as $nav) {