Add apps, shortcuts & widgets to your Habitation screens

To chop-chop become to your favorite content, you can customize your Dwelling screens. Y'all tin add and organize:

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

Add together to Home screens

Add an app

  1. From the bottom of your Home screen, swipe upwardly. Learn how to open apps
  2. Bear on and drag the app. You'll observe images of each Home screen.
  3. Slide the app to where you want information technology. Lift your finger.

Add a shortcut

  1. Touch and hold the app, so elevator your finger. If the app has shortcuts, yous'll get a list.
  2. Bear upon and hold the shortcut.
  3. Slide the shortcut to where you want it. Lift your finger.

Tip: To utilize a shortcut without calculation it to a Abode screen, tap information technology.

Add together or resize a widget

Add a widget

  1. On a Abode screen, touch and hold an empty space.
  2. Tap Widgets .
  3. Touch and hold a widget. You'll become images of your Home screens.
  4. Slide the widget to where yous want it. Elevator your finger.

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

Resize a widget

  1. Touch and concur the widget on your Home screen.
  2. Lift your finger. If the widget tin can be resized, you'll find an outline with dots on the sides.
  3. To resize the widget, drag the dots.
  4. When you lot're washed, tap exterior the widget.

Organize on Habitation screens

Make a folder (grouping)

  1. Touch and hold an app or shortcut.
  2. Drag that app or shortcut on top of another. Elevator your finger.
    • To add more than, drag each one on elevation of the group.
    • To name the group, tap the grouping. Then, tap the suggested folder proper noun. You can too tap one of the suggested names at the top of the keyboard or type the name you desire to use.

Movement an app, shortcut, widget, or group

  1. Touch on and drag the item. Y'all'll become images of your Home screens.
  2. Slide the particular to where you want it.
  3. Lift your finger.

Remove an app, shortcut, widget, or group

  1. Impact and hold the particular.
  2. Drag the item upwards to Remove.
  3. Lift your finger.

You can find "Remove," "Uninstall," or both. "Remove" takes an app off your Home screen simply. "Uninstall" takes information technology off your phone.

Organize Home screens

Add a Abode screen

  1. Touch and hold an app, shortcut, or group.
  2. Slide it to the right until y'all go a blank Home screen.
  3. Lift your finger.

Remove a Dwelling screen

  1. Move your apps, shortcuts, widgets, and groups off the Home screen.
  2. After the last 1 is removed, the Home screen will exist removed.

Related resources

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

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