How To Actualize Folders In Your App Drawer With Activity Launcher

According to App Annie, the boilerplate person's phone contains 60–90 apps. Such a ample bulk can calmly army an app drawer, abnormally back the aforementioned antecedent states that alone about 30 are acclimated in a month. Having a way to adapt apps in the app drawer can advice you abstain crumbling time searching. For a while, one of the better weakness of Action Launcher was its disability to adapt the app drawer in any way. Fortunately, this is no best the case acknowledgment to a contempo update. With Action Launcher, you can adapt the apps into folders aloof like you can on the home screen. Once you've got your... more

According to App Annie, the boilerplate person's phone contains 60–90 apps. Such a ample bulk can calmly army an app drawer, abnormally back the same source states that alone about 30 are acclimated in a month. Accepting a way to adapt apps in the app drawer can advice you abstain crumbling time searching.

For a while, one of the better weakness of Activity Launcher was its disability to adapt the app drawer in any way. Fortunately, this is no best the case acknowledgment to a contempo update. With Activity Launcher, you can adapt the apps into folders aloof like you can on the home screen. Once you've got your apps placed into folders, you'll be able to acquisition your admired apps bound after bottleneck your home screen.

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Step 1: Install the Latest Adaptation of Activity Launcher

The aboriginal affair you'll charge is the latest adaptation of Activity Launcher. While this affection is attainable on some earlier versions, contempo updates accept adapted some bugs involving app drawer folders.

• Play Store Link: Action Launcher: Pixel Edition (free)

Step 2: Adapt Your App Drawer with Folders

With Activity Launcher installed and updated, arch to your home awning and long-press any abandoned space. From the card that appears, baddest "Home Settings."

After extensive the settings menu, accept "App drawers," again baddest "Folders." The abutting folio is area you can actualize a binder application the amphibian activity button in the bottom-right corner. Selecting this button will appearance a account of every installed app. On the top is a band blue-blooded "Unnamed Folder," which (when selected) lets you actualize a appellation for the folder. Once named, accept the apps you ambition to accommodate (or add every app application the "Select All" button), again baddest "Done."

Step 3: Check Out Your Folder

Return to the home folio and accessible the app drawer application either the button or the bash up gesture. The aboriginal figure in the drawer will be your binder with all the apps you added.

There are a lot of authoritative opportunities with the use of folders. You can adapt agnate apps calm (such as all games) to accomplish them easier to find. You can use carefully folders, alignment apps you use calm and agreement the blow of the apps in an "All Apps" folder. You alike put all apps in one folder, except for the apps you use often, and finer adumbrate all the others.

With folders, Activity Launcher now allows you to abstain an brimming app drawer. By alignment apps together, you can calmly acquisition what you are attractive for and bypass accepting to add apps on your home screen, arch to it acceptable crowded.

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