Galaxy S6 Guide

Samsung Galaxy S6 Apps screen

how to organize Samsung Galaxy S6 apps screen? how to create app folders in Galaxy S6 apps screen?

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1) What is Samsung Galaxy S6 Apps screen?
2) How to access Samsung Galaxy S6 Apps screen?
3) How to move apps in Samsung Galaxy S6 Apps screen?
4) How to create app folders in Samsung Galaxy S6 Apps screen?
4.1) Step 1: enter Samsung Galaxy S6 Apps screen
4.2) Step 2: On Samsung Galaxy Apps screen, tap EDIT.
4.3) Step 3: Tap and hold an app, and then drag it over another app.
4.4) Step 4: Drop the app when a folder frame appears around the target app.
4.5) Step 5: Name and customize the app folder
4.6) Can you use Samsung Galaxy S6 Apps screen now? Can you create folders in Samsung Galaxy S6 Apps screen?

What is Samsung Galaxy S6 Apps screen?

Samsung Galaxy S6 Apps screen is sometimes referred as app drawer, or app tray or app list. All of the apps, including pre-installed apps, and apps installed by the user, are all displayed in Samsung Galaxy S6 Apps page as icons.

When an app is uninstalled or disabled, it will disappear from the Galaxy S6 Apps screen.

Please note, app icons in Samsung Galaxy Apps page is different from those in Galaxy S6 home screen. The app icons in Galaxy S6 home screen are actually shortcuts to app icons in Galaxy S6 Apps screen.

When you remove an app from home screen, only the shortcut is removed. The corresponding app icon in Samsung Galaxy S6 Apps screen will not be affected.

But when you uninstall/disable apps from Galaxy S6, the corresponding app icons in both Galaxy S6 home screen and Apps screen are removed automatically.

Samsung Galaxy S6 edge has an identical apps screen, so this guide applies to Samsung Galaxy S6 edge as well, although, in the page, only Galaxy S6 is used.

How to access Samsung Galaxy S6 Apps screen?

To access Samsung Galaxy S6 Apps screen, you can tap the Apps icon (16 white dots in 4×4) in the favorite apps area in Galaxy S6 home screen.

You can customize favorite apps in Galaxy S6 home screen as shown in this page, but you cannot remove the the Apps icon.

Once in Samsung Galaxy S6 Apps screen, you can switch to other panels by swiping to the left or right (see this page on Galaxy S6 touchscreen gestures), or selecting a screen indicator at the bottom of the screen.

If you are a long-term Galaxy device user, you will notice one missing feature of the Samsung Galaxy S6 Apps screen: you cannot cycle through panels when you reach the first or last panel. Samsung purposely disabled this for no reasons. Same happened to Galaxy S6 home screen panels.

There is no empty panel of  Samsung Galaxy S6 Apps screen. If there is no apps on a panel, the panel will not be displayed.

But empty spots are allowed in all (not just the last) panels. In other words, it is not necessary to fill all spots in a Galaxy S6 Apps screen panel .

How to move apps in Samsung Galaxy S6 Apps screen?

By default, the apps in Samsung Galaxy S6 Apps screen are sorted based on time of installation. Newly-installed apps appear in the last spots.

You can organize the app icons in your own way by manually moving them to desired spot in the Samsung Galaxy S6 Apps screen.

On the Samsung Galaxy S6 Apps screen, tap EDIT near the top right, then tap and hold an item and drag it to a new location.

If you want to move an app to another panel, drag it to the side of the screen panel.

How to create app folders in Samsung Galaxy S6 Apps screen?

If you have many apps installed in your Galaxy S6, you may want to create app folders to organize them in Samsung Galaxy S6 Apps screen.

To create folders in Samsung Galaxy S6 Apps screen, you may follow these steps.

Step 1: enter Samsung Galaxy S6 Apps screen

On home screen, you can tap the Apps icon in favorite app tray to enter Galaxy S6 Apps screen.

If you are using other apps, press home button to return to  home screen.

Step 2:  On Samsung Galaxy Apps screen, tap EDIT.

You can find the EDIT button near top right in the Apps screen.

Tap EDIT to enter editing mode of  Samsung Galaxy Apps screen.

Step 3:  Tap and hold an app, and then drag it over another app.

Unlike that in Galaxy S5 or Galaxy Note 4, you cannot create folders directly in Galaxy S6 or Galaxy S6 edge.

You need drag an app and drop it to another one in editing mode of Samsung Galaxy Apps screen, as shown below. This will then create a folder automatically.

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Step 4:  Drop the app when a folder frame appears around the target app.

When you drag the app over the target app, a folder frame appears as shown above.

Now drop the app (by releasing your finger)  to create a folder containing the two apps in Samsung Galaxy Apps screen.

Step 5: Name and customize the app folder

You can tap Enter folder name to name this app folder.

You can change the app folder color by tapping the color palette.

To add more apps to the app folder, tap and hold another app, and then drag it to the folder.

Can you use Samsung  Galaxy S6 Apps screen now? Can you create folders in Samsung Galaxy S6 Apps screen?

If you have any questions or encounter any problems on how to use or customize Samsung Galaxy S6 Apps screen, Galaxy S6 edge Apps screen, or how to create folders in Samsung Galaxy S6 Apps screen and Galaxy S6 edge Apps screen, please let us know in the comment box below.

We will try to help you.

For other features of Galaxy S6, please check Galaxy S6 online manual page.

For detailed guides on how to use Samsung Galaxy S6, please check Galaxy S6 how-to guides page.

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  2. Rob D says

    It’s a backward step to no longer allow sorting options in the Apps screen. They could have added A SORT option next to thhe EDIT option (or similar) in my view.

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  3. Richard says

    Not having alphabetical sorting and the option to hide apps on my S6 Edge is terrible. I’ve owed an S2,S3 & S4 and this is pants. Ok software update may bring this back later I hope.

    Has anyone tried moving 100 apps around an S6 Edge app folder! Its so painful. The edge screen makes it so hit and miss to move an app between pages.

    Seriously thinking of sticking with my S4. Beautiful phone (S6 Edge) needs software changes fast. Perhaps a new launcher?

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  8. Paul Cohn says

    I am very disappointed about the loss of some of the features I had on my S4. Bought the S6 Edge on launch day, for me the edge screen added no value and I didn’t like it, so I traded it for the regular S6. I have 5 home screens and 7 screens in the app drawer. On all other Galaxy phones, including the Note Edge and the S5 all you have to do to jump from one screen to another was to hit the tiny little white indicator at the bottom. On my S6 all that does now is move to the next screen (same as swiping). Is there a way to directly jump from say, the 1st screen on the left to the last screen on the right with one push? If not, Samsung needs to figure out a way for us to add the missing features we love! Thanks

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  9. technicolourandsea says

    I’m going to leave this here for anyone that may encounter this problem.

    Problem:

    I’ve had my s6 edge for about 2 or 3 weeks and recently I’ve noticed this problem after I organized all my apps into folders. Sometimes an app will dissappear for no reason like its been deleted from the device but, when going into the app store and searching for the missing app, realize it’s still installed on the device. The only way to reach the app after this disappearance is to open the app store and open the app through there.

    To fix the problem:

    Restart device. It should return to your app screen; if you had it in a folder or a shortcut for it on the home/main screen you will have to reorganize it back into the folder it was in as well as create a new short cut for it.

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  11. th st says

    creating folder in the apps works fine for me, but the missing “sort my apps” option is really not nice. PLus, from tiem to time, apps dissapear and I have to start them trhough the apps shop, restarting the phone didn´t work for me unfortunateley.

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  12. vahe boyajian says

    HI, i am trying to hide an app that was installed from the market place. In the past, you were able to do the following:
    1. Open the App drawer.
    2.Tap on the Menu.
    3.Select Hide applications option.
    4.Here you can choose the apps or games that you want to hide by tapping on the little black box in the upper right of each app.
    5. Click the Done button to save your changes.

    However, you can’t do this in the newer version of S6. Can you please explain how you can do the hide.

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  13. riverracer says

    i made a couple of folders to store less used apps/tools by dragging an app on top of another app.

    how do i now return the app from the folder back to the main app page?

    hopefully a firmware upgrade will fix the annoying missing utility’s.
    i upgraded my S4 to lollipop and the features were there, but not in S6 lollipop….

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  15. Ilias says

    Hi,
    i am having the exact same problem with Harry M.
    My apps menu is not editable. The only thing i can do after tapping edit is to remove-unintall apps. I can’t move them or create folders. Any suggestions?

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  18. Jessica says

    Having a weird issue where I create folders, put apps in them, and it’s fine for a few days. Then for no apparent reason one folder will just not be there anymore. Happened twice now. Could be I’m inadvertently deleting them, but that’s quite tricky to do given you have to drag and drop, holding down til the bin icon appears. Anyone else having similar issues?

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  20. Mark says

    I can’t see Skype in apps list even though it’s clearly pre-installed by Samsung

    If I go into the Application Manager, Skype appears to be pre-installed. However it doesn’t appear on my actual apps screen.

    I can’t uninstall and reinstall it – presumably because it came pre-installed.

    The only time I’ve managed to open it is when I went to the Play store in an attempt to download it. Because it’s already installed, instead of offering me the option of installing it, it offered me the option of opening it which I did.

    How on earth do I get the Skype app to actually show up on my phone?

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  22. Chris Kemp says

    Hi, I’m on this page as I am googling how to search the App Screen. Is it possible? I’m not getting any hits on google, which suggests not, but to my mind, it is an obvious thing to include (as it was on the Z1 I am moving away from).

    Reply

  23. Nara says

    Samsung has made many wrong decisions. It sucks. I will return my S6. Basic options like sorting should always be available.

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  24. Austin Hesseltine says

    I have a question ……. yesterday I was able to swipe my finger diagonal from the left and right bottom corner of my screen to view recently used apps and favorite apps. Today for some reason it won’t work. How do I get that back? Please help me its driving me crazy and I called att and they aren’t of any help.

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  27. manohar singh says

    Hi
    I am samsung galaxy s6 user. For more than 5 months I am using it. I made some folders as games, news, tools etc. But don’t know when but these folders are invisible and apps in the folders are installed.
    .
    Now I am unable to access folders and apps in it.
    Shocked ……
    What to do…
    I am helpless….
    Could somebody help me ??

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  28. Jacqueline S. Gonzales says

    My Internet Icon isn’t on the application manager screen. All I have is google chrome. I want to get the other browser back. Can anyone help me please. The internet explore(world icon) isn’t even under the defalt apps section. Chrome isn’t letting me access sites I need only the exporer browser works. I have a galaxy s6.

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  30. Jillian says

    I dropped apps into a folder with no problem however that folder has disappeared from my screen. I cannot access any of those apps at all now unless I use voice command. How can I retrieve that folder and those apps?

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  31. Belastol says

    I arranged my apps in a custom way, but then without noticing I pressed the A-Z and now they are arranged alphabetically. Is there any way I can go back to my previous order? I tried doing it manually, but I don’t remember the exact same order, so then i’m stuck looking for an app for 5 minutes.

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  32. ronmaltase says

    Hello, I’m trying to open the Smart Manager App on my S6, but there is not an icon on the apps pages. I can see the app when I go to Applications Manager (all), but I can’t ‘open’ the app. I’m sure it’s user error. Can anyone help?

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  34. Andrew Blackmore says

    hi since doing an upgrade on sunday 10th april 2016 i cannot now organise my apps into folders to cut down on space on my home screen can anyone help please

    thanks

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  35. bash says

    i created some folders but they disappeared after a while along with the apps though when i search for the app i can find it and use it. it seems like they are hidden or something. how can i get them back to be displayed on the app screen?

    Reply

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