How to move or remove an app from the home screen on a Xiaomi phone (HyperOS 3)

Device

Android

Shown on

Xiaomi Redmi Note 15 Pro 5G (25080RABDG), HyperOS 3.0.308.0, Android 16

App

Home screen

Path

Home screen › Hold an app › Drag it › Remove

Real screenshots

7 of 7 steps

Checked

October 2026

Sources

1 official, linked below

Step by step

1. 

   Press and hold the app

   Press and hold the app icon; we used Music. A menu opens with an info icon and a minus icon at the top, then Add widgets and the app's shortcuts: Resume playing, My playlists, Recent and Favorites. To move the app, keep holding and drag.

   Done

2. 

   Drag it to another page

   The page shrinks, with a minus target at the top. Drag the app to the right edge to flip pages. Ours went past the last page onto a new, empty one, shown by a fourth dot.

   Done

3. 

   Lift your finger

   Music stayed where we dropped it, alone on the new page.

   Done

4. 

   Drag it back

   To put it back, press and hold it, drag it to the left edge to flip back to the first page, and drop it in the empty spot. We put Music back beside Mi Browser.

   Done

5. 

   Check the page

   Music was back in its old place at the end of the top row, and the rest of the page was as before.

   Done

6. 

   To remove it, tap the minus icon

   Press and hold the app again and tap the minus icon at the top right of the menu.

   Done

7. 

   Tap Remove

   Ours asked: Remove "Music" from Home screen? It said Music is a system app and you'll still be able to play audio files after you remove the Home screen shortcut. Tap Remove to take the icon off. We pressed Cancel, so we have no picture of the result.

   Done

If you do not see this option

• No Uninstall? Xiaomi's guide says to tap Uninstall in the pop-up window. For Music, a system app, ours had the minus icon, which only removes the home screen icon. Source: Generic User Guide for HyperOS 3.0
• No new page appeared? On ours the new page showed when we dragged Music past the last page to the right edge. Xiaomi says to move the app to other places on the home screen. Source: Generic User Guide for HyperOS 3.0
• Menu covers the app? The menu opened above Music on ours, with the minus icon at its top right. Keep holding and start dragging: in our picture of the drag, the menu had gone.

If this does not work

• App can't be moved? If Lock Home screen layout is on, ours showed the message Home screen layout is locked, and nothing moved. To turn it off: lock the home screen layout.
• App ended up on a page of its own? Dragging to the right edge flipped pages and ours went onto a new, empty page. Drag it back to the left edge and drop it on the page you want.
• Worried Remove deletes the app? For Music, ours said it is a system app and you can still play audio files after you remove the Home screen shortcut. Ours is in Classic mode, with no app drawer to add it back from, so we pressed Cancel and did not test getting it back.

About this guide

Xiaomi's HyperOS 3 guide says to touch and hold an app until the pop-up window shows, then move it, or tap Uninstall to remove it. For Music, a system app, our Redmi's menu had a minus icon instead, which asks before it removes the home screen icon.

The screenshots are from our Redmi Note 15 Pro 5G with Xiaomi HyperOS 3.0.308.0 and Android 16, in Light mode. Ours is in Classic mode, with no app drawer. We moved Music to a new page and back, and opened the remove question but pressed Cancel.

Good to know

Group apps instead: make an app folder on a Xiaomi phone. Keep apps in a drawer you swipe up for: turn on the app drawer.

Take an app off the phone instead: uninstall or disable preinstalled apps. Fit more icons on each page: change the home screen layout. On a Pixel: move or remove an app on a Pixel.

In short: Press and hold the app and drag it; to the screen edge to change page. Remove: minus icon in its menu, Remove.