Samsung Galaxy S9 Apps Screen

The Samsung Galaxy S9 smartphone provides you with two different ways through which you can access the apps as well as widgets on your smartphone. One of these ways is through the Apps screen while the other obvious way is using the home screen. Most people who own smartphones, including those who are perennial smartphone users, do not know about these two different ways. In fact, there is a general tendency to stick to the home screen. Little do we know that using the Apps screen will give you unlimited access and control over your apps unlike when using the home screen to access them.

A very nice simplification of the two access points can be made of a sales shop. When you pass near the sales shop, you will only see a few of all the items on display. And in most cases, you won’t be given whatever is on the display. This is how the home screen treats apps displayed on it. But if you need to see the entire stock of the shop, you’ve got to get inside. That is similar to the Apps screen on your Galaxy S9 smartphone. I hope now the difference between the two has been set quite clear. If you gain full access to an app, you will be able to tweak its settings according to your preferences.

Because of the limited online guides on how to use the Apps screen, we thought it would be a nice surprise to drop in a treat to our readers about Samsung Galaxy S9 Apps screen. As you master the use of Apps screens, you will get better at personalizing your home screen and improving the general experience of your Galaxy S9 smartphone.

This guide provides some useful tips on how to use Apps screen not just to new Galaxy S9 users or Android users who previously used iPhone devices where they didn’t have the privilege of using Apps screen but also to anyone who is thrilled by the idea of using extra app info.

Why You Need The Apps Screen

When you are trying to figure out why you really need the Apps screen, you should start off by considering how or where you hold your apps. Well, as we mentioned before, you can either keep your apps on the home screen or the apps screen. Another question you need to ask yourself is whether the home screen has enough space to hold all the third-party apps that you could possibly download on your Samsung Galaxy S9 smartphone considering that storage space is not an issue on such a great device.

Even if you are willing to hold all your apps on the home screen because they are probably few and you are not such a great fan of trying out new apps from your Google Play Store, would it be a good idea to have all of them right there on the home screen together with other widgets not related to apps? When you answer these questions sufficiently, you will realize why you may need the Apps screen on your Samsung Galaxy S9 smartphone.

Organizing Your Apps Screen and Home Screen

If you want to have things well organized, you should consider installing new apps on your Apps screen but they have all the frequently used apps go to your home screen. This will ensure that all the apps you constantly use are not mixed up with those apps you rarely use.

Some of the benefits of having this sort of arrangement include;

The freedom to organize your apps in any way that you want
You can remove some apps from certain areas on your home screen because these apps are already contained in your Apps screen
You will be able to gain quick access to your apps at any time without having to go to the Application Manager each time you need to access the app’s settings
This arrangement also allows you to have the same app stored in different folders on your home screen. Such an arrangement would not be possible if you only had the home screen as the one place with all your apps

Now that you understand the significance of the Apps screen on your Galaxy S9 smartphone, we can proceed to clear some common questions concerning the Apps screen.

Apps Screen Options

If you need to access the Apps screen, all you have to do is tap the icon in your Favorite Tray on your Galaxy S9 home screen. You can tell the Apps screen icon because it is a 9-dotted icon which automatically takes you to the Apps screen. In the Apps screen, you will see all the apps you ever installed on your Samsung Galaxy S9 smartphone since you purchased it. To put it all together, on the Apps screen, you can any of the following tips below.

Tips For Organizing Your App Screen

Organize your apps in whichever way you want. The setup of apps on your Apps screen is no different from the one on your home screen. Just arrange them in a way that will make it easier to access them.
You can also see the icons representing all the pre-installed and third-party apps at a glance. Depending on how many they are, these apps could be displayed on one or several screens. To juggle between different screens, simply swipe to the left or to the right. You can also use the page indicator which shows how many screens there are and which screen you are on. The page indicator can be found at the bottom of the screen. If there is any icon you would like to transfer to your home screen, just press and hold on that particular item and you should notice some options being displayed.
On the Apps screen, you can search for and locate specific apps by simply typing the app’s name in the Search box using the search button at the top of the screen.
You can edit the apps on your Apps screen directly without having to go to the Applications Manager in your Settings. Simply press the Edit button and access the Screen Edit Mode.
You may also want to alphabetically sort the apps displayed on your Apps screen from A to Z.

How To Remove Apps From The Apps Screen

Getting rid of those apps that have become irrelevant is quite simple. You will have your own reasons for wanting to remove an App from the Apps screen but whatever reason it is you can achieve this using the Edit Mode. In the Edit mode, you will be able to uninstall an App and therefore removing it from your Apps screen.

When you hit the Edit button, you will be redirected to a new window containing all the apps on your Apps screen. You will be able to remove any of the apps with a minus sign right at the corner of the app’s icon.

Removing Third-Party Apps

All the third-party apps with the minus sign including Oculus or Facebook can be uninstalled but if you still need to use the app, you can just choose to disable it for the time being. Mostly, uninstalling pre-installed apps might be a problem in which case disabling them should suffice. There are some apps however which cannot be uninstalled because they do not have the minus sign. These are apps designed by Samsung to assist your Android operating system and uninstalling them might corrupt your device operating system. For this reason, Samsung has protected these apps by disabling any edits on them.

For those apps that you are allowed to remove, simply tap on the minus sign then after confirming the delete or uninstall action, wait for the process to complete. You should note that deleting apps from your Apps is more of a permanent solution because you are deleting the apps itself, unlike the home screen where you will be deleting the app shortcut.

Of course, if you get rid of the actual app, it goes without saying that you will have deleted the app shortcut from your home screen if it was present.

How To Rearrange Items On The Apps Screen

If you need to manually rearrange the apps on your Apps screen, you can accomplish this by simply tapping on the Edit Mode then you will be taken to a window with all the apps. You can now locate the app you would like to move then press and hold the app to drag it to its new location.

The new app location that you are moving your app to could be on the same folder or on a different folder. If you want to place it on a different screen, just swipe to that screen and place the app there.

How To Create Folders For Your Apps In The Apps Screen

Since you will be having different installed apps on your Apps screen on your Samsung Galaxy S9 smartphone, you should figure out how to create folders on the Apps screen to make it easier to assemble similar apps under the same folder.

On the Apps screen, tap on the Edit button
This should bring up the Edit Mode and once there, you can tap and hold the first app which you want to be part of the folder
Now drag this app and release it directly on top of another folder so that both apps will be contained in the same folder
The step above should create a new folder automatically with a default folder name as New Folder. This new folder will already contain the two apps that you placed on top of each other
The next step is to edit the folder name by replacing the New Folder name with something unique that relates to the apps contained in the folder
As if renaming the folder is not enough, you are provided with the option of playing around with the background color. You can choose a different color although this setting is optional, you can do without it if you so wish
Tap on Done when you finish customizing all the customizable features of your newly created folder

When everything is done and set, you can exit the Edit mode since your apps are now organized in the manner in which you want. Use the back button or just tap on the home button and you will have exited the Apps screen edit mode.

How You Can Hide The Apps Screen On Your Samsung Galaxy S9 Smartphone

Although you have the home screen and the Apps screen from which you can access your apps, you may decide try out a trick which will move all the Apps from your Apps screen to your home screen. This trick is to simply hide the Apps screen from your Samsung Galaxy S9 smartphone.

How to Delete the Apps Moved from Apps to Home Screen

Having learned most of the things about the Apps screen, you may be wondering if it is possible to move an icon from your Apps screen to your home screen. Yes, you can actually create an app shortcut on your home screen for an app that is on your Apps screen. If you use the app long enough, it might come a time when you need to remove the shortcut only from your home screen without interfering with the app itself in your Apps screen. To do that, you will need to follow the steps outlined below;

With your Samsung Galaxy S9 powered on, go to the home screen containing the app shortcut you would like to eliminate
Touch and hold the app icon for about 2-3 seconds
You should notice a trash can symbol at the top of your screen, simply drag the icon and drop it on top of the trash can
Releasing the app icon in the trash will remove the shortcut from your home without interfering with the app in your apps screen

That is all for those willing to learn a thing or two about App screen on Samsung Galaxy S9 smartphone. Hopefully, you can now begin to make a full source of all the features on your Galaxy S9 smartphone including the Apps screen which will give you full access and control over all the apps installed on your smartphone.