In the event that you have the impression that the readability of your home screen does not suit you, that you want to increase the size of the icons or to shrink them to display more, you will be happy to learn. that it is possible thanks to the features built into the latest versions of Android to do it on your Samsung Galaxy J3. We will precisely, in this guide, show you how to change the size of the icons on your Samsung Galaxy J3? Therefore, you will be able to choose the format that best suits you to set up your home screen in the best possible way.
In this context, first of all, we will see how to change the size of application shortcuts on the home screen of your Samsung Galaxy J3 , then, how to modify it in the list of applications, and, to conclude, how to use a Launcher to make any desired changes to the size of the application icons of your Samsung Galaxy J3.
How to change the size of the application icons on the home screen of a Samsung Galaxy J3?
We therefore start our little guide by revealing the procedure for change the size of app icons on your home screen.
We therefore present to you the only way we have found, it is in fact to use a trick of the customization options of the home screen of your Samsung Galaxy J3:
- Unlock your smartphone screen
- On the home screen, long press on an empty space or pinch the screen with two of your fingers as if you never wanted to zoom out
- Click on the » Home screen settings "And in the" tab Home screen grid »You will be able to choose the distribution of your screen, for example if you select» 4 × 5 You are heading to have the largest possible icons, and fewer application icons displayed on the home screen of your Samsung Galaxy J3.
- On the other hand, if you ever select " 5 × 6 »You will have many more icons and therefore smaller app shortcuts
How to change the size of the icons in the application list of a Samsung Galaxy J3?
We now move on to the second part of this tutorial, what is the procedure to change the size of the icons in the list of applications of its Samsung Galaxy J3? However, there is only one way to do this, it is the same as seen above but choosing Application grid We have researched several ways to do this, the only possible way that we have found is to use of a ROM , unofficial version of Android which is going to have a different organization and content, but it involves a lot of manipulation, or you can use a Launcher and to do this we recommend that you read our next section. You can nevertheless, if ever your wish corresponds to a readability problem change the font of your Samsung Galaxy J3.
How to use a Launcher to change icon size on Samsung Galaxy J3?
Another solution to change the size of the icons on your Samsung Galaxy J3 will be to use a Launcher. A Launcher is an application that will replace the software overlay or the basic Android launcher and will consequently give the possibility of organizing the home screens of your smartphone completely differently. We can use icon packs to offer a different visual that suits you better, use the dark mode , position your icons or Widgets anywhere on your screen and in the locations of the grid… And, of course, the function that interests you the most adjust the size of the icons on your Samsung Galaxy J3. We will therefore show you the procedure to use Nova Launcher :
- Go to the Google Play Store
- Download and install the app Nova Launcher
- Set the app as the default launcher
- Make a long press on your home screen in an empty space to reach the Launcher settings
- Click on the menu » Icon layout »
- In the setting " Icon size ", Move the cursor to choose the size (in percentage) you want to assign to your icons
If you want customize the home screen of your Samsung Galaxy J3, see our article.
In the event that you want a lot of tutorials to become the absolute master of the Samsung Galaxy J3, we invite you to browse the other tutorials in the category: Samsung Galaxy J3.
