Managing, Sharing, and Uninstalling Apps
AFTER AWHILE, YOU MAY suffer from app overload: Youâve downloaded so many apps you donât know what to do with them. Itâs time to get them under control.
Thereâs a single location for doing that. From the Home screen or a pane, press the Menu key and select SettingsâApplicationsââManage applications.â You see a list of your apps, including their names and file sizes, categorized in four tabs:
Downloaded. These are apps that werenât on the Galaxy S II when you started using it, but that youâve downloaded and installed.
Note
Some apps show up on the Downloaded tab even if they were pre-installed, such as those youâve updated. But even some you didnât update show up thereâ¦go figure!
All. This is the mega-list of your Galaxy S II appsâevery single one on the phone, including those built into it and those youâve downloaded.
On SD card. Normally, apps install to your Galaxy S IIâs main memory, not to its SD card. But as youâll see in a bit, thereâs a way to move some of them from the Galaxy S IIâs memory to its SD card.
Running. These are apps that are currently running on your Galaxy S II.
Tip
The list of apps is arranged alphabetically. You can instead view them by their size (biggest first), or can filter them by just seeing those apps that are currently running, or just those apps that youâve downloaded. Press the Menu key, and then choose âSort by sizeâ to list them by size order.
Tap any app and you come to ...
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