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Samsung: Resize a Widget on the Home Screen

If a widget on your Samsung home screen looks cramped or the text is too small to read, you can usually adjust its size without deleting and re-adding it. Not every widget supports resizing, and how much space it can take up depends on the current grid layout of your home screen. Get the size wrong and content either gets cut off or the widget snaps back to its original shape.

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Step 1 of 2: Tap and hold a **Widget**

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Android 11 · One UI 3
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Resize a Widget auf Samsung

Widgets on a Samsung home screen are not fixed in size. Most of them can be stretched or shrunk to show more or less content, and in some cases the font size scales along with the widget.

To resize a widget, first tap and hold it until it lifts slightly and resize handles appear along its edges. This is the same action used to move a widget, so hold it a moment longer if a menu pops up instead.

Tap and hold a WidgetDrag the Borders to resize the Widget

Drag any of the border handles inward or outward. The widget snaps to the underlying grid of your home screen, so the available sizes depend on how many columns and rows your layout currently uses.

Some widgets only support specific size ratios, such as a small square or a wide rectangle, and skip everything in between. If dragging does nothing, the widget you placed does not support resizing at all, and the only options are to move it, remove it, or swap it for a different widget size offered when you first added it.

Frequently asked questions

Not all widgets support flexible sizing. If nothing happens when you drag the border handles after using Tap and hold a Widget, that widget only comes in a fixed size and needs to be removed and re-added if you want a different one.

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Android 11 · One UI 3

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