How to Manage Weather Widget on Home Screen of Samsung Galaxy Phones
Many of us nowadays like to keep track of the weather in our favorite places. Samsung Galaxy phones come with a weather app, but it’s quite a task to find the app and check the weather over and over again. If that’s the problem, adding a weather widget to your Samsung Galaxy phone’s home screen might save you precious time. Here is how you’re able to add and set a weather widget on the home screen of Samsung Galaxy phones. You can also remove it if you want.
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Add Weather Widget to Home Screen
A weather widget on Samsung Galaxy devices is cool as well as useful since you can check the weather stats at a glance. Let’s take a look at how to add a weather widget on your home screen.
1.Navigate to the home screen on your Galaxy phone andlong-pressanywhere in an empty space.
2.Tap on theWidgetsicon near the bottom side of the screen.
3.Scroll down the widgets page and tap onWeatherto further expand it.
Pro Tip:You can also search for the widgets by tapping the search bar above.
- Selecta weather widget by scrolling up or down and tapping on it. For example, we’re tapping on the Dynamic Weather widget.
5.Tap onAdd.
6.Tap on thecurrent locationto confirm a location for the widget. This is necessary.
You should see a weather widget on your Samsung phone’s home screen now.
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Set Location in Weather Widget
You can have multiple locations in the weather app, but the widget will show you the location you’ve selected for that widget. Let’s first learn how to add a location in the weather app and then how to set that location in the widget. Here are the steps to add a location in the weather app.
1.Navigate to thewidgeton your home screen and tap to open it.
2.Tap on thehamburger menu(three horizontal lines) on the upper left side of the screen.
3.Now tap onManage locationsto further open the locations list for the weather app.
4.Tap on+ iconin the top right corner of the screen to add a location to the list.
5.Type the name of the desiredcityand wait for the results.
6.When the name appears, tap on it to select it. And the city’s name will appear in the locations list in the weather app.
Now that we’ve added all the desired locations, it’s time to put this on to the weather widget. Let’s take a look at the steps to do so.
Updating Location on Weather Widget
You can choose to display any one of the added location’s weather on the weather widget on the home screen of your Samsung Galaxy smartphone.
1.Navigate to the weather widget on your home screen andlong-presson it.
2.Tap onSettingsto open the Widget Settings.
3.Near the location, tap onChange.
4.Tap on the desiredlocationfrom the available list.
Pro Tip:Go toSet Location in Weather Widgetif you are having trouble adding a location to the weather app.
5.Now tap onSaveto confirm the configuration for the widget.
Remove Weather Widget From Home Screen
If you don’t want to use the weather widget anymore, then you might want to remove it from your home screen. In that case, here is a quick little guide for that.
1.Navigate to the home screen where your widget is placed andlong-presson it.
2.Tap onRemoveto get rid of the widget from your home screen.
Rain Rain Go Away
The weather widget allows you to quickly glance at the current weather of a location and tapping on it will further tell you the 24 hours forecast and much more. The weather widget is not only quite accurate and easy to use but can also be customized to show the weather for different locations. Just follow the above-mentioned steps and whether you keep or remove the weather (widget) it’s totally up to you.
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Subham Raj
Subham is a tech enthusiast and a has knack for writing, he also has a deep love for filmmaking. He is currently working as a full-time Technical writer at TechWiser and his roots are from Samastipur, Bihar.
