Find & organize apps

If you've installed apps from the Google Play Shop or the Chrome Web Store, here are tips to quickly find and organize them.

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Find an app

To search for an app on your Chromebook:

Open up an app

Tip: You lot tin also share content from apps. Learn how to share files with nearby Android and Chromebook devices.

Manage how your apps open up links

To control whether links open within your app or in a new browser tab within Chrome:

If yous can't change this setting or it'due south dim, your app is set to open up links within Chrome. To take your app open links within a new app window:

Use app shortcuts

Some apps offering shortcuts to a specific feature or activity inside the app.

Use search for another way to find app shortcuts:

  1. In the corner of your screen, select the Launcher .
  2. Enter keywords in the search box. If a shortcut is bachelor, it appears simply below the search box.
    • For example: When yous enter "trending" in the search box, y'all notice what videos are trending on YouTube.

Organize your apps

Put apps in folders

  • Put apps together in a folder: Elevate an app on top of another app.
  • Name a folder: Click the folder.

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Move apps around

Click and hold an app, then drag it.

Manage app notifications

Tip: To silence all app notifications, turn on Practice not disturb. To silence all app notifications another way, select the time and then Notifications.

Acquire more virtually apps

  • Detect apps to replace computer programs
  • Install apps from the Chrome Web Store
  • Install apps from the Google Play Shop
  • Remove an app

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