User Guide

Tips and shortcuts

Tips: Finding apps

Look in a folder on your Home screen.

Some apps are located in folders on your home screen. Click a folder to see what apps are inside.

Make all hidden apps visible on the Home screen.

On the Home screen, press the key > Show All Icons. To unhide an app, highlight it and then press the key > Unhide Icon. If the icon is hidden in other panels, you can unhide the icon in all panels, or in the current panel only. If Show All Icons does not appear in the menu, there are no apps hidden from view.

Search for an app.

On the Home screen, start typing the app name.

 

 

Verify that an app is installed.

On the Home screen or in a folder, click the Options icon.

 

Click Device > Application Management. If the app is

 

listed, it is installed on your BlackBerry smartphone.

 

 

Tips: Freeing space for your music, pictures, videos and files

You can store files in the built-in media storage on your BlackBerry smartphone or on a media card.

Check how much storage is used by media files and

On the Home screen, click the Media icon. Press the

documents.

key > Memory Use.

 

 

 

Delete unneeded files.

On the Home screen or in a folder, click the Files icon.

 

Find and highlight a file. Press the

key > Delete.

Reduce the size of pictures you take and videos you record.

On the Home screen, click the Camera icon or the

Media icon > Video Camera icon. Press the key

>Options. Change the Image Size or Video Format field.

Store files on a media card instead of your smartphone. On the Home screen, click the Camera icon or the

Media icon > Video Camera icon. Press the key > Options. In the Storage section, change the Store Pictures or Store Videos field.

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