Here’s how to create shortcuts on your Samsung phone’s home screen

Your smartphone contains many applications, files, chats, pictures, and other content, which makes it challenging to find what you want to use at the present time. However, a shortcut on your phone’s home screen can be very helpful. Samsung offers you the ability to add various kinds of shortcuts to your home screen. Want to know how? Read the complete story.

A home screen shortcut is a quick and efficient way to accomplish various tasks on your phone without the headache of finding that particular feature in different apps or settings. They can also help you be more productive by allowing you to multitask.

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It’s worth noticing that since shortcuts are just links to apps or functions and not main functions themselves, they don’t take up extra space on your phone’s memory. So you can create as many shortcuts as you want on your phone’s home screen.

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How to create shortcuts on Samsung Home Screen:

Create app shortcut:

Simply, go to your phone’s app screen. Tap and hold an app icon that you want a shortcut for, a pop-up will appear. Tap on “Add to Home” and it’s done. You can now shift that app shortcut anywhere on the home screen.

Create pictures, files, or documents shortcuts:

Head over to the “My Files” app on your Galaxy phone and reach the place where that file is saved. Next, tap and hold that file, tap on the “More” option, and finally, click the “Add to Home” option.

This way, you can create shortcuts for your most used files, documents, pictures, videos, and others and can simply tap on the shortcut on your home screen to use it. Now you won’t always need to find that file on your phone.

Create chat shortcuts:

Open WhatsApp, Signal, or any chatting application. Now open the chat you want a shortcut for. Tap on the More option (three-dot menu) and tap the “Add chat to home” or “Add shortcut” option. It’s worth mentioning that all applications do not support this feature.