Add together apps, shortcuts & widgets to your Home screens

To quickly become to your favorite content, you can customize your Home screens. Yous can add and organize:

  • Apps
  • Shortcuts to content inside apps
  • Widgets that evidence information without opening apps

Add to Home screens

Add an app

  1. From the bottom of your Home screen, swipe up. Learn how to open up apps
  2. Touch and drag the app. You'll find images of each Abode screen.
  3. Slide the app to where you lot desire information technology. Lift your finger.

Add a shortcut

  1. Touch and hold the app, then lift your finger. If the app has shortcuts, y'all'll go a list.
  2. Bear on and concur the shortcut.
  3. Slide the shortcut to where you want information technology. Lift your finger.

Tip: To use a shortcut without adding it to a Home screen, tap it.

Add or resize a widget

Add a widget

  1. On a Home screen, touch and concord an empty space.
  2. Tap Widgets .
  3. Impact and concord a widget. Y'all'll get images of your Home screens.
  4. Slide the widget to where yous want information technology. Lift your finger.

Tip: Some apps come with widgets. Touch and hold the app. Then tap Widgets .

Resize a widget

  1. Touch and hold the widget on your Home screen.
  2. Lift your finger. If the widget can be resized, you'll find an outline with dots on the sides.
  3. To resize the widget, elevate the dots.
  4. When you're done, tap outside the widget.

Organize on Home screens

Brand a folder (group)

  1. Bear on and hold an app or shortcut.
  2. Drag that app or shortcut on top of another. Lift your finger.
    • To add more than, elevate each 1 on top of the group.
    • To name the grouping, tap the grouping. Then, tap the suggested folder proper name. You lot can also tap one of the suggested names at the height of the keyboard or type the name you desire to use.

Motion an app, shortcut, widget, or group

  1. Touch and drag the detail. You'll go images of your Abode screens.
  2. Slide the item to where you want it.
  3. Lift your finger.

Remove an app, shortcut, widget, or grouping

  1. Touch and agree the item.
  2. Drag the item up to Remove.
  3. Elevator your finger.

You can notice "Remove," "Uninstall," or both. "Remove" takes an app off your Habitation screen only. "Uninstall" takes information technology off your phone.

Organize Home screens

Add a Domicile screen

  1. Touch and hold an app, shortcut, or grouping.
  2. Slide it to the right until yous get a blank Dwelling house screen.
  3. Lift your finger.

Remove a Dwelling house screen

  1. Move your apps, shortcuts, widgets, and groups off the Abode screen.
  2. Subsequently the last one is removed, the Dwelling house screen volition be removed.

Related resources

  • Find, open, and close apps
  • Control notification dots

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