Customize your app tray

Choose where to find apps: app tray or home screen

The app tray holds all of your installed apps. Swipe up from the bottom of the home screen to open the tray. This simplifies your home screen, showing only apps you choose to add as shortcuts.

To see all apps on your home screen instead, you can remove the app tray.

You can switch at any time.

  1. Touch & hold a blank space on your home screen.

  2. Tap Home settings > Home screen style and then:

    • To see all apps on your home screen, tap Open.
    • To see all apps in the app tray, tap App tray.
  3. Tap settings icon to see more customizations, described below.

If you’re using the app tray

You can settings icon make these customizations in Home settings:

  • Turn on/off suggested apps at the top of the list and bottom of the home screen.
  • If you don’t want the app’s icon added to your home screen when you install a new app, turn Add app icons to Home screen off . The icon is only added to the app tray.

If you're using Open to put all apps on the home screen

You can settings icon customize how app icons are arranged:

  • To be able to position icons anywhere on the home screen, tap Free arrangements.

  • To have icons move automatically to fill empty spaces, tap Auto fill.

Get suggestions in app tray

If you’re using the app tray, you can get:

  • Search suggestions at the top of the app tray
  • Suggested links in the app tray
  • Personalized search results

To turn these suggestions on or off:

  1. Swipe up from the bottom of your home screen to open the app tray.
  2. Touch more options icon > Search suggestions.
  3. Turn options on toggle on switch or off toggle off switch.

Hide keyboard in app tray

If you don’t want the keyboard to automatically open when you swipe up for the app tray, set it to stay closed until you tap the search field:

  1. Swipe up from the bottom of your home screen to open the app tray.
  2. Tap more options icon > Always hide keyboard.