Key Takeaways
- Disabling pre-installed Samsung Galaxy apps reduces clutter, improves battery life, and frees up memory.
- You can enable a disabled app in just a few easy steps.
- Moving a hidden app back to your home screen is easy and takes less than a minute.
Many Samsung Galaxy users disable unnecessary pre-installed apps to reduce clutter, improve battery life, and free up memory. This doesn’t affect the performance of your phone, as Android usually has good alternative apps that perform the same functions.
However, sometimes you may accidentally disable a pre-installed app or later decide you want to use it after all. Today, we will show you an easy way to reinstall disabled or hidden Samsung One UI apps on your Galaxy smartphone.
How to enable pre-installed Samsung Galaxy apps from the Apps screen
Enabling preloaded Samsung apps requires a few simple steps
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1. Go to setting.
2. Scroll down and tap Apps.
3. A list of apps will open, scroll through the list and find the apps that are tagged as “Disabled”.
4. Tap Apps Open the app info window. You will see a disabled tag under the app name.
5. Tap To enable Icon in the lower left corner of the display.
6. The app name will appear with an “Installed” tag below it and it will be available for use.
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How to bring hidden pre-installed Samsung apps back to the home screen
Quickly return the app to the home screen
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Go to step 1 setting.
2. Tap Home Screen
3. Tap Hide apps on the home screen and apps screen.
4. A list of apps will open. You can easily find hidden apps because they appear at the top of the screen with a minus sign on their icon. Hidden apps will also have a check mark next to them as you scroll through the apps list.
5. Just tap Apps Unhide from the icon at the top of the display to return to the Home screen, or scroll through the list and tap Uncheck If you delete an app you don’t want to hide, you’ll be able to find it on your home screen.
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