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Samsung: Set Your Default Home Screen Panel

Tapping the Home button always jumps to Samsung Daily instead of your main app grid? Samsung marks the second home screen panel, the one running Samsung Daily, as the default landing page. You can pick any existing panel on your home screen and make that one open instead.

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Android 11 · One UI 3
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Set Default Home Screen Panel auf Samsung

On Samsung phones, the Home button in the navigation bar does not always return you to your main app grid. If Samsung Daily is active, the system treats that panel as the default Home screen page, so every tap on the Home button lands there first.

This behavior comes from a separate default-panel setting that is independent from which panel you see right after unlocking the phone. You can override it and choose any existing Home screen panel, including a plain grid without widgets, as the one the Home button opens.

How to change the default panel

Touch and hold a free area on the Home screen to enter edit mode: Tap and hold a free area on Home screen. Swipe left or right to browse through your existing panels: Swipe to browse the Home screens. Once the panel you want is centered, tap the button below it: Tap on Default Home screen. A star icon confirms which panel now acts as default.

If none of your panels feel right for this role, consider removing Samsung Daily instead, which removes its panel entirely. That approach works better if you never use the Samsung Daily feed and prefer one less screen to swipe through.

Frequently asked questions

No. The default panel only controls what opens when you tap the Home button. The screen shown right after unlocking depends on which panel was active when you last locked the phone.

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Android 11 · One UI 3

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