Organising icons on home screen

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Phone icons and widgets on the background with a Samsung Galaxy s22 ultra

Everyone loves a comfortable and clean home - and that applies to your Samsung phone as well. You can customise and style your home screen by adding widgets, folders, and extra home screens. It will make your device more organised and easy to navigate.

Manage home screens

You can customise your home screens any way you want. Add, remove, or change your main home screen, so everything is just how you like.

1 From any home screen, touch and hold an empty space.

Multiple Home screens displayed on a Galaxy tablet

2 The screen will enter Edit mode, displaying multiple screens. From here, use the following options to manage your screens:

* Add a screen: Swipe left until you see an empty home screen, and then tap Add (it looks like a plus sign).
* Remove a screen: Swipe to a home screen you want to remove, and then tap the Delete icon at the top.
* Set a screen as the main home screen: Swipe to the home screen you want to make your main screen. Tap the Home icon at the top to make it your go-to screen. The bolded home icon indicates which one is the main home screen.
* Change the order of screens: Touch and hold the screen you want to move, and then drag it to the desired position.
* Turn Samsung Free or Google Discover on or off: Swipe all the way to the right until you reach the Samsung Free and Google Discover screen. Tap the switch at the top to turn it on or off.
* Edit the home screen settings: Tap Settings at the bottom of the screen to be taken to even more options for the home screen, such as adjusting the home screen's layout.

Create shortcuts and folders

Folders enable you to access all your related apps together in one place. You can create and edit your folders to help you organise your apps.

1 From the home screen, tap and hold an app. You can also swipe up to access the Apps screen, and then choose an app.

2 To move apps, simply drag the app across the home screen. If you want to add an app to the home screen, access the Apps screen, drag it to the side of the screen and drop it on your home screen.

3 To create a folder, simply drag an app on top of another app, and then release. The two apps will both be added to the same folder.

4 Tap ‘Folder name’ and enter an appropriate name for the folder. Tap Done on the keyboard.

Add or remove widgets

Widgets are like mini versions of apps. They appear on your Home screen and when you tap them, they will activate or use an app's feature. These shortcuts will help you access your favourite apps faster.

As an example, let’s add a widget to your home screen that will allow you to call someone with just one tap.

1 On your home screen, tap and hold an empty spot.

2 Tap Widgets, select ‘Contacts’.