Setting up your Samsung Galaxy S9 and S9 Plus Apps Tray

Personalising your Samsung Galaxy S9 apps tray helps keep your phone personal and organised for you. Here are fonehouse’s simple tips and tricks to setup your S9’s app tray.

Putting your apps in alphabetical order

This makes life so easy when searching for Apps.  To set this up press the menu icon in the top right-hand corner and then click sort. This will automatically setup all your apps in alphabetical order.

Uninstalling Apps on the S9

Uninstalling apps on the S9 is quick, hold down on the app you want to uninstall and a pop up will appear. You can either uninstall or disable your app from here.

How to add apps to your S9’s home screen

Hold down on the app you want to move, this will let you place a quick shortcut onto your S9’s home screen by dragging it to the top page. Alternatively, you can use the pop up that appears and select the option that says add to home screen.

Setup your Samsung Galaxy S9 so all apps appear on the home screen

This is a very popular option for S9 users. Doing this removes the app tray and makes it like the iPhone. To do this hold down on the home screen, the select home screen layout. This will give you a choice of two options. Home screen and apps screen or home screen only. Select the one that suits you.

Changing the S9’s app grid size

You can choose how many apps you want on the apps tray. Go into home screen settings and choose apps screen grid. You have a choice of 5X6 or 4X6.

How to create a folder in your S9’s apps tray

Select any app and drag it over another, this will create a folder and ask you to name it. You can even give it a new colour or choose your own colour. This helps organise your apps into things like Google apps, IOT (internet of things) apps etc.

How to reorder your apps on the S9

As well as setting up alphabetical orders you can also choose custom ordering. Tap the button at the right-hand corner and select custom order. This lets you drag and drop your apps to a place of your choice.

Adding or removing your S9’s apps tray button

The S9’s default position is setup to swipe open the apps tray. If you want the button to appear on your S9’s home page screen goes to home screen settings and select the option that says apps button. Here you can choose to turn this off and on.

How to search your entire S9 at once

Right at the top of the Galaxy S9 is a search bar. Using the search bar will search your whole S9. If you only want the search bar to search specific files on the S9 you can set this up by tapping manage apps and you can decide where the search bar searches.

Changing the S9 back to normal app icons

Samsung seem to place backgrounds on everything now. Not every Samsung user likes this as they change the apps icons to circle. If you want to change the app icons back to square go to settings, then to display, then to icon frames and select icons only. They will then revert to their original shape.

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