Moving a downloaded pdf to your home screen

For Ontario residents, you can do that using this website from the Ontario government. Next, the site will let you access a PDF copy of your proof of vaccination.

Perhaps the easiest, if not necessarily the best, is using a file management or cloud storage app to quickly access the proof of vaccination PDF via a home screen shortcut generated by a cloud storage or file management app. Realistically, this same strategy should work with any app that lets you create home screen shortcuts to specific files — Google Files, unfortunately, does not let you do that as far as I can tell, which is why I chose to use a cloud storage app instead.

However, I found Google Drive worked a little better than the other two because it let you link directly to the PDF file. More tech savvy people could probably use an app like Tasker to create a shortcut to the PDF. Ultimately, the approach I detail below is a think a good balance of accessible and convenient. So, if you get a menu without add shortcut, or there is no menu icon 3 vertical dots , you need to make sure you select one and only one file.

Like app icons, you can move the icon to any home screen panels. As mentioned earlier, once a file is added to Galaxy S9 Home screen, you can then manage it like other app icons.

You can also tap and hold long tap the icon to manage the shortcut: remove it from home screen, select more items, or move it. You can also create folders, just like app folders. For file shortcuts. In fact, you can create a folder with both apps and file shortcuts pinned files.

The procedure of creating folders for file shortcuts on Galaxy S9 home screen is identical to creating app folders. For example, as shown below, you can create a folder for two pinned files on the home screen, name the folder and customize the background color for the folder.

In addition to adding file shortcuts to the home screen, you can also add file shortcuts pin files to the edge screen. Actually, when you pin a file to Galaxy S9 Home screen, the phone will detect it and suggest you add it to the tasks edge as well. For example, after you add the file shortcut to the home screen, you can find a notification in Galaxy S9 notification panel as shown in the screenshot below.

Tap the notification Add shortcut to tasks edge to jump to the setting page of tasks edge. Of course, you can ignore the notification. Later, you can still add the file shortcut to tasks edge by opening tasks edge settings page. As shown below, in the settings page for the tasks edge, you can find the file shortcuts added to the home screen are available for tasks edge automatically.

To add a file shortcut to the tasks edge, tap and hold the item as shown below, then drag and drop it to any available slots. Once the file is pinned to the tasks edge, you can open it directly by tapping it from the edge screen. So, if you remove the file shortcut on Galaxy S9 home screen, it will be removed automatically from the tasks edge. But if you remove the file shortcut in tasks edge, the pinned file in the home screen will not be affected.

This guide applies to other Samsung Galaxy phones with Android Marshmallow 6. For older Samsung phones with Android Lollipop and earlier , the option of adding a shortcut to home screen was not available.

You have to use third-party apps to get this feature. My Files is a Samsung exclusive and pre-installed app.

You cannot install it on Android phones of other brands. But there are many third-party file manager apps that may offer similar features. For using Galaxy S9 camera, please check Galaxy S9 camera guides page. You may also contact us through our Facebook page. Upload the file, then browse to the file with Safari, then click the "right arrow in a box" icon at the bottom of the screen.

From there, you have nine options for the file, one of which is "add to Home Screen". This functionality was enhanced in iOS 6, but I'm almost certain the ability to "add a webpage to the homescreen" existed in iOS 5. Of course the caveat is the file is not stored on your device: you have to load it as a webpage everytime you access it. Oct 22, PM. Nov 5, AM in response to clarkkent27 In response to clarkkent Lots of steps but pretty simple after one or two tries.

Nov 5, AM. May 8, PM. Communities Get Support. Sign in Sign in Sign in corporate. Browse Search. Ask a question. User profile for user: clarkkent27 clarkkent More Less. Reply I have this question too I have this question too Me too Me too. Helpful answers Drop Down menu. Share that link in Dropbox by selecting the drop down arrow at the right of the file and select "Make Available Offline ," then select the drop down arrow to the right of the file again and select "share," then select "Create a link," then select "share link," then select "Copy Link," Past the link into Safari.