Manage apps on your Samsung smart watch
Merely like on your phone, you can install, customize, and uninstall apps on your smart watch. Personalize your smart picket to fit your needs and preferences using the Milky way Wearable app on your phone - for example, maybe you lot tin't go for a run without listening to Spotify. At that place are also individual settings you can adjust when managing apps on your smart lookout.
Notation: Available screens and settings may vary by provider, telephone, or watch. These features are non available on the Galaxy Fit.
Note:If you lot are installing an app through Milky way Store on the scout, make certain you have a solid network connection. Alternatively, if you are installing an app through Galaxy Shop on the phone, make certain the watch and phone are connected via Bluetooth.
There are two principal ways to install apps for your smart watch using the Galaxy Habiliment app on the connected telephone: through the Galaxy Shop on earlier watch models, or through the Play Store on the Milky way Watch4 series and newly updated devices. If you have an iOS device, you can also use the Samsung Galaxy Watchapp.
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Navigate to the appropriate store based on the spotter model you have:
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Galaxy Watch4 series: Open up the Galaxy Vesture app on the continued phone. Swipe to and tap Shop to open the Milky way Wearable version of the Play Store.
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Galaxy Watch3 and Galaxy Watch Active2: Open the Galaxy Wearable app on the connected telephone. Swipe to and tap Galaxy Store to open the Galaxy Vesture version of the Galaxy Store.
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Previous watch models: Open up the Milky way Wear app, tap the Notice tab, and and then tap Discover more in the Galaxy Store. Tap the Picket tab to browse for apps.
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When you observe the app you want, tap it, then tap Install. It will automatically install on your scout.
The Galaxy Watch4 and Watch4 Classic take Google software installed in them. This means that y'all tin install an app from the regular Play Store on your telephone, and the app will automatically install on your watch. The only requirements are that the lookout man needs to exist connected to your phone and the app has to have a sentinel counterpart. You can browse the store for watch apps by tapping Apps, and then tapping Categories. Tap Spotter apps to come across everything available for your watch!
When the time comes, it's also incredibly like shooting fish in a barrel to update the apps on your sentinel!
You're always using that 1 app, but it takes too long to navigate to it on your sentry. Instead of struggling each time yous want to open it, simply change the gild of how apps display on your sentinel's screen.
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On your phone, open the Milky way Habiliment app, and then tap the Abode tab.
Note: The Galaxy Watch4, Watch4 Archetype, Galaxy Watch3, and Galaxy Sentinel Active2 do not have a Dwelling house tab.
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Tap Apps or Apps screen, and and then tap Reorder or Reorder apps.
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To movement an app, touch and hold the app icon, and so drag information technology to a new location. When you are finished, tap Salve.
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You tin also brandish your well-nigh recent apps commencement. Tap App club, and and so tap Nearly contempo first. But exist aware that this choice doesn't permit yous to customize the app order.
Note: This option is non bachelor on the Milky way Watch4 and Watch4 Classic.
To move an app from your scout'due south screen, navigate to the Apps screen, and bear on and concur the app yous desire to move. Drag the app to your desired location, and so release.
Notation: Simply certain apps will have settings that can be configured.
If an app seems a footling different from one yous've used on your phone, the settings may just demand to be adjusted.
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On your telephone, open the Galaxy Wearable app, and then tap the Home tab.
Annotation: The Galaxy Watch4, Watch4 Classic, Galaxy Watch3, and Milky way Scout Active2 practise not take a Dwelling tab.
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Tap Apps, and then swipe to and tap Manage apps. For the Galaxy Watch4 and Watch4 Archetype, tap Sentry settings, then tapApps, then tap App settings.
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Each app will take its ain unique and customizable settings. Just tap the Settings icon adjacent to the app you want to customize, adjust the settings to fit your needs, and so tap Save when finished.
Note: For the Galaxy Watch4 and Watch4 Classic, only tap the proper noun of the app to customize information technology.
Important: Some preloaded apps cannot be uninstalled or disabled. They tin can only be hidden. You cannot uninstall apps from the Galaxy Watch4 or Galaxy Watch4 Classic using the Galaxy Article of clothing app; you volition need to uninstall apps using the lookout itself.
You don't actually utilize that app anymore. Instead of letting information technology take up infinite, delete information technology from your watch.
Uninstall apps using Milky way Wear
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To delete apps from your telephone, open up the Galaxy Wearable app, and so tap the Abode tab.
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Tap Apps, and and then swipe to and tap Manage apps.
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Tap the Delete icon (the trash can), select the app(s) you want to delete, and then tap Uninstall. Tap Uninstall to confirm.
Uninstall apps using the watch
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To delete apps directly from your watch, navigate to the Apps screen that has the app yous want to uninstall.
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Touch and concord that screen. Or, if you're using the Galaxy Watch4 or Watch4 Classic, touch and concur the app.
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Adjacent, tap the Delete icon, and so tap the check marker to confirm. On the Galaxy Watch4 or Watch4 Classic, tap Uninstall, then tap OK.
Note: This is non available on the Galaxy Watch4 and Galaxy Watch4 Classic.
If there's a preloaded app you don't use on your smart watch, you can't uninstall or disable information technology. Withal, you can hide it, so it won't appear on your sentry and bother you anymore.
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To hide apps, open up the Galaxy Wearable app on your phone, so tap the Home tab.
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Tap Apps, and so swipe to and tap Manage apps.
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Tap the red minus icon next to the apps yous want to hide, and then tap Save when finished. The hidden apps will no longer announced on your smart lookout man.
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You can brand apps appear over again by tapping the greenish plus icon under Hidden apps.
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