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Samsung patents home screen grid modes for precise app placement

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Patent drawing from the official filing.

Samsung has filed a patent for a method to edit a device's home screen by switching between different grid sizes. The system allows users to move app icons or widgets in larger steps when using a coarse grid and in smaller, more precise steps when switching to a finer grid.

Why it mattersThis filing describes a user interface feature that could make arranging apps on a smartphone or tablet screen more accurate and easier to manage.

In the filing’s own words

An electronic device, may include: a display; at least one processor; and a memory that stores instructions. The instructions,, when executed by the processor individually or collectively may cause the electronic device to: display a plurality of first cells based on entering a first grid mode of a home screen, wherein the first cells have a first size; display a first object in a first area including a first number of first cells; and move the first object in units of the first cells; set a plurality of second cells based on entering a second grid mode of the home screen, wherein each of the second cells has a second size different from the first size; display the first object in a second area including a second number of second cells; and move the first object in units of the second cells. The first size may be greater than the second size.

What exactly they claim (claim 1)

1. An electronic device, comprising: a display; at least one processor, comprising processing circuitry; and memory storing instructions that, when executed by at least one processor individually or collectively, cause the electronic device to: display, through the display, a plurality of first cells based on entering a first grid mode among a plurality of editing modes of a home screen, each of the first cells having a first size, display a first object in a first area including a first number of first cells among the plurality of first cells, and move the first object in units of the first cells, and set a plurality of second cells based on entering a second grid mode among the plurality of editing modes of the home screen, each of the second cells having a second size different from the first size, display the first object in a second area including a second number of second cells among the plurality of second cells, and move the first object in units of the second cells, wherein the first size is larger than the second size.

Facts

Company
Samsung (SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.)
Official title
ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD FOR EDITING HOME SCREEN IN ELECTRONIC DEVICE
Publication number
US20260299761A1
Application number
19697840
Filed
Jun 4, 2026
Published
Oct 1, 2026
Inventors
5
Claims
20

Classified under

G06F 3/0484 Physics & computing
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Summaries are simplified from the filing’s own abstract and first claim. A patent filing is not a product announcement.
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