If you want to show all apps in Home screen, you can choose to hide apps screen in Galaxy S8 and S8+.
This guide shows you how to hide Galaxy S8 apps screen and how to search apps after you hide apps screen in Galaxy S8 and S8+.
In Android phones, there is an apps screen, aka app drawer, Â which lists all apps installed on the phone.
While home screen lists any of the installed apps, and holds some widgets.
So, apps screen and home screen in Android phones serve different purposes.
But due to the popularity of iPhone, which does not have separate apps screen and home screen, more and more Android vendors try to mimic the look of iPhone.
Samsung introduced a new feature allowing users to hide apps screen in Galaxy S7 and S7 edge.
Now, in Galaxy S8, Samsung again allows you to hide apps screen in Galaxy S8 and S8+.
By hiding apps screen in Galaxy S8 and S8+, you can:
Anyway, you may consider to hide apps screen in Galaxy S8 and S8+ if you seldom use widgets, or if you just want to show all apps in one place.
Please note, you cannot add multiple copies of an app shortcut to Galaxy S8 Home screen after you hide apps screen in Galaxy S8 or S8+.  This does not affect multiple app shortcuts added before you hide apps screen.
As mentioned, by default, in Galaxy S8 and S8+, apps screen icon is hidden.
You can access Galaxy S8 apps screen by swiping upwards or downwards in Galaxy S8 Home screen. Of course, you can choose to show apps screen icon in the favorite apps tray if you want.
To hide apps screen and therefore to show all apps in Galaxy S8 home screen, you can follow these steps.
Step 1: Go to Settings– Display — Home screen
As shown in screenshot below, Galaxy S8 settings, tap Display, then tap Home screen.
Step 2: Tap Home screen layout
In Home screen setting page, tap Home screen layout as shown below.
Please note, you can also access Home screen setting page from home screen edit mode.
Step 3: Choose Home screen only
As shown above, there are two options for home screen layout:
Tap Home screen only as shown above.
Step 4: Tap Apply.
You need to tap Apply to save the settings.
Of course, you will get a warning as shown in the screenshot below:
Apply selected Home screen layout?
Any customizations you’ve made to the Home screen will be discarded.
Tap Apply again to acknowledge the change.
Actually, the apps screen will be appended to the rightmost Galaxy S8 Home screen panels. It will actually not remove other customization of your Galaxy S8 Home screen.
Step 5: Customize your Home screen and enjoy it
You may customize Galaxy S8 Home screen and enjoy the phone now.
You can search apps in Galaxy S8 apps screen and there is a search bar for it in the top of Galaxy S8 Apps screen.
But if you hide apps screen, the search bar will NOT be available in Galaxy S8 Home screen.
To search apps after you hide apps screen, you need to swipe downwards or upwards from Galaxy S8 home screen as you did to access apps screen before apps screen is hidden.
This swiping gesture will bring up the app search screen as shown above.
You can then search apps or other info in the phone as you did in apps screen.
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What's the point hiding an app if it's visible in suggested apps bar?
Are you referring to hiding apps? If you want to hide apps, you should user secure folder as explained in this guide https://gadgetguideonline.com/s8/how-to-use-galaxy-s8-secure-folder-in-galaxy-s8-and-s8/