A folder on the Realme home screen is a container that holds two or more app icons under a single tile. Instead of scattering ten icons across a page, you tap one folder and pick the app you need from a small pop-up grid. This is the main reason folders exist: they save space and turn a messy grid of icons into a set of logical groups.
Folders become useful once your home screen fills up with apps you use for related tasks. Grouping banking apps, travel apps, or work tools into one tile means you scroll less and find things faster, because you are searching within a small group instead of a full page.
Creating and Filling a Folder
A folder is created by dragging one app icon on top of another. Realme UI automatically forms a folder containing both apps and shows a small preview of the icons inside. From there, you can drag additional apps into the same folder, or drag an app out again if it does not belong there anymore.
Every folder can be renamed. Tapping the folder opens it in an expanded view, and tapping the name field at the top lets you type something more specific than the default label the system suggests. A clear name matters more than it seems, since it is the only text you see before opening the folder.
Customization Options Inside a Folder
Once a folder holds several apps, you can usually reorder the icons inside it by long-pressing and dragging, similar to rearranging icons on the main home screen. Some Realme UI versions also offer a background style or grid layout for the open folder view, letting you switch between a compact grid and a larger icon layout depending on how many apps are grouped together.
Not every element can go inside a folder. Widgets stay outside folders entirely, since a folder only holds app shortcuts, not the live content a widget displays. If you are trying to group a widget with an app, you will need to place the widget next to the folder instead of inside it.
Practical Limits and Common Issues
There is no strict cap most people ever reach, but very large folders with dozens of apps become harder to scan visually, even though the system still opens them without issue. A better approach is to keep each folder focused on one theme, such as photo editing tools or streaming apps, rather than treating a single folder as a dumping ground for everything you rarely use.
Deleting a folder does not delete the apps inside it. Removing the last two apps, or dragging every icon back out to the home screen, causes the folder itself to disappear automatically, since an empty or single-app folder has no reason to exist.
Folders you create on one home screen page stay tied to that page unless you manually drag the whole folder to another page, so plan folder placement around how you swipe between screens day to day.