Samsung GALAXY S3 - Customizing the Home Screen; Primary Shortcuts

Understanding Your Phone 35
Customizing the Home Screen
Customize the Home screen to suit your preferences.
• Add Apps and Widgets : For more information, see “Adding an
Application Shortcut to the Home Screen”
on page 36.
• Add Folders : For more information, see “Place folders on the
Home screen to organize items.”
on page 37.
• Change the Wallpaper : For more information, see “Wallpaper”
on page 37.
Adding and Removing Home Screen Panels
Your phone comes with 7 Home screen panels. You can
customize the Home screen to include up to the seven
default panels and set one panel as Home.
1. From the Home screen, touch
Menu ➔ Edit page .
2. Slide your finger across the screen to scroll the panels.
Use these controls to configure panels:
Tip: You can also “pinch” the Home screen to display Edit
options.
Primary Shortcuts
Primary shortcuts display at the bottom of the display. You
can edit the Primary shortcuts, except for
Apps .
Editing the Primary Shortcuts
To add or remove shortcuts:
 Touch and hold a shortcut and drag it from the Primary
shortcuts to the Home screen or from the Home screen
to the Primary shortcuts.
To remove shortcuts:
 Touch and hold the shortcut until Remove displays,
and then drag the shortcut to the
Remove icon.
Remove : Touch and hold on a panel and drag it
to
Remove .
Add : Touch a previously-removed panel to add
it, up to the default total of seven.
Set as Home : Touch to assign a panel as the
Home screen. The panel set as Home displays
when you press the
Home key.