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Samsung: Add a New Home Screen Page on the Home Screen

Running out of room for icons and widgets on your Samsung home screen? New pages usually appear automatically once an existing page fills up, but that does not always happen. If Samsung One UI stops creating pages on its own, you need to add one manually to keep organizing apps and widgets.

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Step 1 of 3: Tap and hold a **free area**on Home screen

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Android 11 · One UI 3
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Add a New Home Screen Page auf Samsung

Samsung One UI normally creates a new Home screen page by itself once you drag an app or widget onto a page that is already full. This automatic behavior depends on free space detection, and it occasionally fails to trigger, especially after a system update or when the launcher cache gets confused about existing page layouts.

When that happens, apps and widgets you try to place get squeezed onto existing pages instead of moving to a fresh one. Adding a page manually solves this without waiting for the system to catch up.

How to add a page manually

Tap and hold a free area on your Home screen until the edit menu appears, then swipe to the last Home screen. From there, tap on Add to create a new empty page.

Tap and hold a free area on Home screenSwipe to the last Home screenTap on Add

The new page appears immediately and is ready for apps or widgets. If you do not see an Add option, you have likely reached the maximum number of pages allowed on your device, and you will need to remove an unused page first.

Frequently asked questions

This usually happens after a software update or when the launcher misjudges available space on existing pages. Adding a page manually through Tap and hold a free area on Home screenSwipe to the last Home screenTap on Add works regardless of that issue.

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Android 11 · One UI 3

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