Samsung Galaxy S3: How to Add and Delete Applications or Widgets on Home Screen Easily

From the beginning we had agreed that the Samsung Galaxy SIII is a great high-end smartphone that comes with powerful specs and set of useful capabilities. With this phone you can do many things, even things that have not previously been thought of by you. Even so, to be able to get full of advantages of this phone you need some tricks to get it.

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One of the things that may need to learn is about how to customize your phone's home screen. Home Screen itself is an important part when we use this phone because of all the activity start here. In previous articles we have learned about how to setup the home screen, so now we will learn how to add and remove apps or widgets on the Home screen of your phone.

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With customize the Home screen you can personalized Home screen according to your wish. Adding app that you like and frequently use or remove the app that is not important and you rarely use. This course will further facilitate your activities, right?

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How to add apps to the Home screen?
By default, the Galaxy SIII comes with seven Home Screen. And on the main Home screen there are only two widget installed: the Clock / Weather and the Flipboard widget, that means you can add whatever apps you want to your Home screen, whether it from from apps, market tools etc.. Below are the simple steps to do so, as written on android.gs:

1. Choose one of the seven Home screens available that you will use to add icon apps.
2. Tap on the screen you'll use.
3. Screen will be selected, and several options will displayed.
4. Select "Add to Home screen" option.
5. Find and choose the app you want.
6. Done. Now the app you want has been added to the selected screen.

How to adds a widget to the home screen?
To be able to add widgets to the screen, there are two ways that you can use. From the same source, you can see both of them below.
THE FIRST WAY

1. Choose one of the seven Home screens available that you will use to add widget.
2. Tap on the screen you'll use.
3. Screen will be selected, and several options will displayed.
4. Select "Widgets" option.
5. Find and choose the widget you want.
6. Done. Now the widget you want has been added to the selected screen.

THE SECOND WAY

1. Tap the "App drawer" icon located in the lower right hand corner.
2. Tap on "Widgets".
3. Select the widget you want by tap and hold it in a few second.
4. Once the widget is selected, then drag the widget to the selected screen. In addition, you can also put the widget to the different screen by moving your finger to the left or to the right.
5. Release for placing it.
6. Done. Now the widget you want has been added to the selected screen.

How to delete apps or widgets on the Home screen?
Once you can add apps or widgets on the screen of your choice, you may find that you have fullfill the screen with various icons. Well, for this reason you may need to remove some of them. To do so following the simple steps below:

1. Tap on the app or widget you want to remove.
2. Once the app or widget selected, drag it to the trash icon located in the bottom of the screen.
3. Place it on the trash to remove it.
4. Done. Now app or widget you want has been successfully remove.

All the ways mentioned above is very easy to do. Even you can do this without having to root or use any third-party app. So easy, right? So, have you tried the ways mentioned above on your phone? If so, you can share your experiences through the comment below :)