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How to hide and unhide app icons from appearing on Home Screen and App Screen

(Topic created on: 03-08-2025 02:43 PM)
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Nardip
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Finally solved a problem that has been bugging me for over a year, but the setting in OneUI6.1.1 was very opaque and not easy to understand.

I had apps that were installed but I couldn't see the app icons to open the app and it was really annoying. I could do a work around of searching for the app in search box and I could indirectly find it by clicking on the search result ( usually related to Apps/Apps Info) and then click on "Load " on bottom left of App Info screen. This is tedious but it works.

The other work around was to add.the app to the launcher associated with the Edge Panel feature in OneUI but again not necessarily ideal.

Well I finally solved the non appearance of apps on both Home Screen and App Screen.

It's a feature that is linked with the Home Screen. So you need to go to >Settings\Home Screen.
It will look like this screenshot:
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Then look down the page and click on " Hide apps on Home and App screens"

Once there you will see a screen that will look like this:

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On this screen you will see a listing of apps which are hidden from both the Home Screen and the App Screen. If you spot any apps that are hidden which you didn't mean to hide, uncheck the tick box against the app and voilà it will now be visible !!

Certainly not intuitive, and this is something Samsung could do better, i.e. make settings intuitive ( why do I go to Settings\ Home Screen, when all I want is to hide/unhide something on the App Screen ???)


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Good tip!