Customize Your Home Screen |
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Screens
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
• Remove a screen: Tap
• Set a screen as the main Home screen: Tap
• 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
• 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
• 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
To remove a shortcut:
1. Touch and hold an app shortcut to open the options menu.
2. Tap
• 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.
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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 |
Getting Started: Assemble Your Device • Start Using Your Device • Set Up Your Device • Front View • Back View • Home Screen • Notification Panel • Customize Your Home Screen • Bixby • Navigation • Entering Text • Face Recognition • Fingerprint Scanner • Iris Scanner • Multi Window • Emergency Mode • Edge Screen •
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