How do I access the Home screen settings?
The Home screen settings allows you to access various settings to configure your Home screen.
Follow the steps below to learn how to access your Home screen settings:
Please Note: Screenshots were taken from the Samsung Galaxy S9 running Android OS Version 8.0 (Oreo). Some of the options shown below may not be applicable on your device.
What do the Home screen settings do?
You can choose if you would like to have all your apps displayed on the Home screen. Otherwise, selecting the alternative option allows you to swipe up or down on the Home screen to access the Apps page.
Allows you to adjust how many tabs can be placed on the Home screen.
Allows you to adjust how many tabs can be placed on the Apps screen.
Adds an Apps icon shortcut on the Home screen.
Select how to show icon badges when apps send new notifications.
Click here to learn more about the App icon badge feature.
Add apps to Home screen - Newly downloaded apps from Play Store will be added to the Home screen automatically.
Quick-open notification panel - Swipe down to open the notification panel from the Home screen.
Portrait mode only - Prevent the Home screen from rotating to Landscape mode.
Hiding applications will remove selected apps from your home screen and apps tray. You will still be able to search for these apps and use them as normal however, you are unable to view them from your home page unless you remove the selected app from Hide Apps.
Follow the below guide to learn how to Hide applications from your Home Screen and Apps Tray.
To stop apps from being hidden, simply tap the red - button of your selected app then tap Apply to finalise the changes.
Lock Home screen layout
Galaxy smartphones operating on Android version 9.0 (Pie) have the option of Locking the Home Screen layout. If you are experiencing issues adding, removing or moving applications on your homepage you may have enabled this feature.
This also means, if you have enabled this setting you will not be able to add applications from your apps tray to your home screen.
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