Find and organise apps

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

Find an app

To search for an app on your Chromebook:

On your keyboard, press the search key or the Launcher key .
Enter the name of the app that you want and find the app in your search results.

At the corner of your screen, select the Launcher .
Find an app that you'd like to open.
- Choose an app from your recently used apps
- Scroll to find all of your apps
- Use the Launcher to search for apps
To open the app, select the app icon.

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

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

At the bottom right, select the time.
Select Settings Apps Manage your apps.
Select an app.
Under 'Opening supported links', select whether you want links to open in the app or within Chrome.

If you can’t change this setting or it’s dim, your app is set to open links within Chrome. To have your app open links within a new app window:

Some apps offer shortcuts to a specific feature or action within the app.

Find app shortcuts:

At the corner of your screen, select the Launcher .
Right-click on the app. Find app shortcuts from the down arrow .
- For example: When you right-click on YouTube , you find Subscriptions . When you select Subscriptions, it takes you to your Subscriptions page on YouTube.

Use search for another way to find app shortcuts:

At the corner of your screen, select the Launcher .
Enter keywords in the search box. If a shortcut is available, it appears just below the search box.
- For example: When you enter 'trending' in the search box, you find what videos are trending on YouTube.

Click and hold an app, then drag it.

Tip: To silence all app notifications, turn on Do Not Disturb. To silence all app notifications another way, select the time

Notifications.

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