Customize Your Home Screen

Your device comes with multiple Home screens to hold app shortcuts and widgets. You can add, remove, change the order of screens, as well as choose a different main Home screen.

1. From a Home screen, pinch the screen.

2. Use these options to manage screens:

• Align shortcuts: Tap Align to move all apps shortcuts into a line at the top of a screen.

• Remove a screen: Tap Remove.

• Set a screen as the main Home screen: Tap Main Home screen at the top of a screen. This screen is displayed when you tap Home.

• Change the order of screens: Touch and hold a screen, and then drag it to a new position.

• Add a screen: Swipe to the end of the screens, and then tap Add.

• Hello Bixby: Swipe right, and tap On/Off to enable.

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Wallpapers and Themes

Set visual themes for all system screens and icons on your device. Change the look of the Home and Lock screens with wallpaper. You can display a favorite picture or choose from preloaded wallpapers.

1. From a Home screen, pinch the screen.

2. Tap Wallpapers and themes to customize.

For more information, see “Wallpapers and Themes”

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Widgets

Widgets are simple application extensions that run on a Home screen. There are many kinds of widgets, including links to a specific contact, Internet bookmarks, Gmail and email accounts, and many others.

To add a widget to a Home screen:

1. From a Home screen, pinch the screen.

2. Tap Widgets.

3. Touch and hold a widget, drag it to a Home screen, and release it.

To remove a widget:

1. From a Home screen, touch and hold a widget to open the options menu.

2. Tap Remove shortcut.

• Removing a widget does not delete the widget, it just removes the widget from the Home screen.

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Home Screen Settings

Customize your Home and Apps screens.

1. From a Home screen, pinch the screen.

2. Tap Home screen settings to customize:

• Home screen layout: Set your device to have a Home and Apps screen, or only a Home screen where all apps are located.

• Home screen grid: Choose a dimension option to determine how icons are arranged on the Home screen. The numbers indicate how many icons can be placed horizontally by how many icons can be placed vertically.

• Apps screen grid: Choose a dimension option to determine how icons are arranged on the Apps screen. The numbers indicate how many icons can be placed horizontally by how many icons can be placed vertically.

• Apps button: Add an apps button to the Home screen for easy to access to the Apps screen.

• Hide apps: Select apps to hide, tap Apply.

• Hello Bixby settings: Configure Hello Bixby features.

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App Shortcuts

You can use app shortcuts to launch an app from any Home screen.

To add a shortcut:

1. From a Home screen, swipe up to access Apps.

2. Touch and hold an app shortcut to open the options menu.

3. Tap Add shortcut to home.

To remove a shortcut:

1. Touch and hold an app shortcut to open the options menu.

2. Tap Remove shortcut.

• Removing a shortcut does not delete the app, it just removes the shortcut from the Home screen.

To move a shortcut from one Home screen to another:

1. Touch and hold an app shortcut to release it.

2. Drag the app shortcut to a new Home screen, and then release it.

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Folders

Place folders on a Home screen to organize items.

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Create a Folder

You can create an app folder on a Home screen.

1. From a Home screen, touch and hold an app shortcut and drag it on top of another app shortcut until a highlighted box appears.

2. Release the app shortcut to create the folder.

• Enter folder name: Enter a name for the folder.

• Palette: Change the color.

• Add apps: Place more apps in the folder. Tap apps to select them, and then tap Add.

3. Tap anywhere outside of the folder to close it.

• To add more apps, touch and hold an app shortcut and drag it to the folder.

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Remove a Folder from a Home Screen

You can remove a folder that you added to a Home screen.

1. Touch and hold the folder to open the options menu.

2. Tap Delete and confirm when prompted.