How To Customize Home Screen – Samsung Galaxy Tab 4

Learn how to customize home screen on your Samsung Galaxy Tab 4. Your device comes with seven Home screen panels. You can customize the Home screen by removing or adding panels.

To customize the Home screens to suit your preferences:

• Navigate to one of the Home screen panels.
• Touch and hold on the screen until the Home screen pop-up displays.
• Touch Set wallpaper to change the Home screen wallpaper
• Under Add to Home screen touch:
  • Apps and widgets to add app or widget shortcuts on the Home screen.
  • Folder to add a folder on a Home screen.
  • Page to add a Home screen.

Create Folder: For more information refers to “Create Folders .”

Wallpapers: For more information refers to “Wallpapers.”

Shortcuts: For more information refers to “Shortcuts.”

Widgets: For more information refers to “Widgets.”

Customize Multi Window: For more information refers to “Customize Multi Window.”

Apps Screen: see Customize Apps Screen

Adding and Removing Home Screen Panels

• Your device comes with seven Home screen panels. You can customize the Home screen by removing or adding panels.

Note: The panel in the center position displays when you touch Home.

• From a Home screen, pinch the screen from the left and right side to the center to display the editing screen.

Note: Touch and hold on the screen until the Home screen pop-up displays. Under Add to Home screen, touch Page to add a Home screen.

Use these controls to configure panels:

• Remove icon: Touch and drag a panel to the Trash Can to remove the panel from the Home screen.
• Add icon: Touch to add a new panel, up to a total of seven. This option is available when less than seven panels have been added.
• Default Home Page icon: Touch the Home icon at the top of a panel to set it as the default home screen.

To rearrange the order of panels:

• Touch and drag a panel to a new location.

To return to the Home screen:

• Touch Back Key.

Note

This guide will work on all Samsung Galaxy Tabs; including Samsung Galaxy Tab 4 7.0, Samsung Galaxy Tab 4 8.0 and Samsung Galaxy Tab 4 10.1.