App Drawer - Alphabetical Order on Galaxy S6 / S6 edge.

[mdb8884]

Hi. I received my S6 edge after years of being with HTC. One niggle: There's no way to sort the app draw alphabetically. Having trawled the the web, I believe it could be remedied by Voda as some US carriers have an A-Z sort option. Is therer any chance it could be done?

Many thanks.

[Retired-Laura]

Hi @mdb8884

Thanks for the feedback I’ll get this passed on.

Cheers,

Laura

[damongoodman]

was there a fix for this as i have the same issue?

[mdb8884]

No. I downloaded Nova launcher which has the option and also gives me Google Now on every page which works with 'ok google'. That was also lost with this phone.

[jamsterdm]

Yeah apparently some of the us carriers can also hide apps which would be handy! Could do it on every other Samsung before this one

[drey_p]

I've got a non branded handset and the option to sort the apps alphabetically doesn't exist there either, so I don't think it is a Vodafone specific thing, more likely what Samsung or Google have done to the device. 

[carnaige]

This is a real annoyance. It makes browsing for apps on a phone a real headache using the standard app drawer.

It does seem like it’s specific to certain carriers…. http://forums.androidcentral.com/samsung-galaxy-s6/512036-how-do-you-put-your-apps-alphabetical-orde...

The fact that you cannot remove the app drawer from the ‘dock’ means that we're stuck with a fundamentally flawed app drawer on our homescreens. ‘App Swap’ from the Play store looks good and I would move that into the dock and replace the standard drawer.. if only I could!

I never had this issue on my S4 with Vodafone (which allowed us to sort alphabetically) and unfortunately ‘Appzorter’ which I used to arrange apps on my S3 does not work on the S6/Lollipop yet either.

Any chance that this fundamental flaw might get fixed?

[drey_p]

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@carnaige wrote:

It does seem like it’s specific to certain carriers…

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Not correct - as stated in my previous post, I have a non branded phone ie one that hasn't been provided with by a network - it is a standard UK version of the handset.  It doesn't have the option to sort apps either. So, it is either something that Samsung or Google have done.

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@carnaige wrote:

Any chance that this fundamental flaw might get fixed?

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You may wish to contact Samsung / Google and as the same question of them as it doesn't appear to be carrier specific.

[carnaige]

Ok, my bad... quite an oversight by Samsung really. 

[drmagwai]

I agree this is annoying and I hope Samsung bring it back in the next version.

However you can find apps using google search which will search locally on the phone if you enable it in settings.