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Samsung: Create a Folder on the Home Screen

Your Home screen fills up fast when every app gets its own icon, and scrolling through several pages just to find one app gets tiresome. Samsung lets you group icons into folders, but the option only shows up once you enter the icon selection mode instead of a regular menu. Missing that step is usually why people give up before finding Create folder.

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Step 1 of 4: Tap and hold an **App**

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Create a Folder on the Home Screen auf Samsung

Samsung's Home screen treats every app icon as an individual object unless you group them yourself. There is no automatic sorting, so folders only appear once you build them with a long-press gesture.

To create one, Tap and hold an AppTap on SelectSelect one or more AppsTap on Create folder. Samsung One UI bundles the chosen icons into a single folder icon that opens with a tap.

Inside the folder you can add further apps, rename it, and pick a background color that matches the rest of your layout. This makes folders useful for grouping apps by category, for example messaging or media apps, without deleting anything from the Home screen.

If you only want to move a single app to another spot, dragging it directly is faster than building a folder. Folders make more sense once three or more related icons are cluttering the same screen.

One side effect worth knowing: removing every app from a folder deletes the folder automatically, so an empty folder never stays behind on the Home screen.

Frequently asked questions

Yes. Open the folder by tapping it, then tap the folder name field at the top and type a new name.

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Android 11 · One UI 3

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