Galaxy s9 apps to home screen when downloaded

But if you update the file, the file in the original folder will be updated. Technically, the shortcut the pinned file in Galaxy S9 home screen is a symbolic soft link to the original file, not a copy of the file. There are many third-party apps that allow you to add file shortcuts to Galaxy S9 Home screen. But you do not install any of them.

The pre-installed My Files from Samsung is a decent file manager and lets you pin files to the home screen. By default, you can find My Files in Galaxy S9 apps screen. Of course, you can and should add it to the home screen. As shown in the screenshot below, My Files organize your files in various ways. On the top, recently accessed files are listed under Recents card , which can be turned off in the settings.

Your files on the phone are also categorized as image, audio, video, documents, downloads and installation files in the categories card. Of course, a file can belong to up to two categories. And a file may be not in any of these categories depending on individual files. If you need to navigate through the storage manually, you can find two entries for the internal storage and SD card storage if you added one in the Phone catrgory.

But it is not recommended to pin files saved in the USB flash drive. After you remove or unmount the USB flash drive from the phone , the pinned file will disappear. So, you should copy the file to the SD card or phone storage if you want to pin it on Galaxy S9 home screen. My Files can also access and manage cloud storage if you enable it, in the cloud card. For example, you may access your Samsung or Google cloud from My Files.

But you can only access norma files uploaded to Samsung cloud, and will not be able to access your backup files in the Samsung cloud. There is a link to Samsung cloud for you to access all files as explained in this page. In the Downloads folder, tap and hold long tap the PDF file as shown above. If you only tap the file, Galaxy S9 will try to open it. Once the file is selected, you can see the check mark on the top left of the thumbnail as shown below.

On the top left side, My Files will show you how many files are selected. You can select all files in this folder by tapping All button. If you need to pin multiple files to Galaxy S9 Home screen, you have to do it separately in My Files. After selecting the PDF file, you can then tap the menu key 3 vertical dots on the top right as shown below. In the menu, as shown in the screenshot above, tap Add shortcut. Please note, the menu will be different if you select more than one file or less than one none.

In both cases, there will be no option of add shortcut. So, if you get a menu without add shortcut, or there is no menu icon 3 vertical dots , you need to make sure you select one and only one file.

Like app icons, you can move the icon to any home screen panels. As mentioned earlier, once a file is added to Galaxy S9 Home screen, you can then manage it like other app icons. You can also tap and hold long tap the icon to manage the shortcut: remove it from home screen, select more items, or move it.

You can also create folders, just like app folders. For file shortcuts. In fact, you can create a folder with both apps and file shortcuts pinned files. The procedure of creating folders for file shortcuts on Galaxy S9 home screen is identical to creating app folders.

For example, as shown below, you can create a folder for two pinned files on the home screen, name the folder and customize the background color for the folder. In addition to adding file shortcuts to the home screen, you can also add file shortcuts pin files to the edge screen. Actually, when you pin a file to Galaxy S9 Home screen, the phone will detect it and suggest you add it to the tasks edge as well.

For example, after you add the file shortcut to the home screen, you can find a notification in Galaxy S9 notification panel as shown in the screenshot below. To put it all together, on the Apps screen, you can any of the following tips below.

Getting rid of those apps that have become irrelevant is quite simple. You will have your own reasons for wanting to remove an App from the Apps screen but whatever reason it is you can achieve this using the Edit Mode. In the Edit mode, you will be able to uninstall an App and therefore removing it from your Apps screen.

When you hit the Edit button, you will be redirected to a new window containing all the apps on your Apps screen. All the third-party apps with the minus sign including Oculus or Facebook can be uninstalled but if you still need to use the app, you can just choose to disable it for the time being.

Mostly, uninstalling pre-installed apps might be a problem in which case disabling them should suffice. There are some apps however which cannot be uninstalled because they do not have the minus sign. These are apps designed by Samsung to assist your Android operating system and uninstalling them might corrupt your device operating system.

For this reason, Samsung has protected these apps by disabling any edits on them. For those apps that you are allowed to remove, simply tap on the minus sign then after confirming the delete or uninstall action, wait for the process to complete.

You should note that deleting apps from your Apps is more of a permanent solution because you are deleting the apps itself, unlike the home screen where you will be deleting the app shortcut. Of course, if you get rid of the actual app, it goes without saying that you will have deleted the app shortcut from your home screen if it was present.

If you need to manually rearrange the apps on your Apps screen, you can accomplish this by simply tapping on the Edit Mode then you will be taken to a window with all the apps. You can now locate the app you would like to move then press and hold the app to drag it to its new location. The new app location that you are moving your app to could be on the same folder or on a different folder. If you want to place it on a different screen, just swipe to that screen and place the app there.

Since you will be having different installed apps on your Apps screen on your Samsung Galaxy S9 smartphone, you should figure out how to create folders on the Apps screen to make it easier to assemble similar apps under the same folder. When everything is done and set, you can exit the Edit mode since your apps are now organized in the manner in which you want.

Use the back button or just tap on the home button and you will have exited the Apps screen edit mode. Although you have the home screen and the Apps screen from which you can access your apps, you may decide try out a trick which will move all the Apps from your Apps screen to your home screen.

This trick is to simply hide the Apps screen from your Samsung Galaxy S9 smartphone. Having learned most of the things about the Apps screen, you may be wondering if it is possible to move an icon from your Apps screen to your home screen.

Yes, you can actually create an app shortcut on your home screen for an app that is on your Apps screen. If you use the app long enough, it might come a time when you need to remove the shortcut only from your home screen without interfering with the app itself in your Apps screen. To do that, you will need to follow the steps outlined below;. That is all for those willing to learn a thing or two about App screen on Samsung Galaxy S9 smartphone.