How to Edit Roku Home Screen | Customize Your App Grid

Your Roku Home Screen can be rearranged by moving, removing, and pinning apps through the star button on any tile, plus hiding extra rows in Settings.

Between the recommendation rows, the subscriptions section, and a dozen channels you barely open, the Roku Home Screen can feel crowded fast. The fix is built into the OS: press the star (*) button on any tile and dig into Settings > Home screen. You can edit the Roku home screen by rearranging apps, hiding entire sections, and changing the look — all without uninstalling anything or losing your account access.

What You Can Change on the Roku Home Screen

Roku’s current Home Screen lets you customize the app grid, hide built-in rows, pin shortcuts to Quick Access, and swap the background theme, but you cannot replace the entire interface with a custom launcher. The changes are all done through the star button on tiles and the Settings > Home screen menu. The table below covers every option available on modern Roku TVs and streaming devices.

How Do You Move or Rearrange Apps and Channels?

Highlight any channel or app tile on the Home screen, press the * (star) button on your remote, and select Move app or Move channel. Use the directional pad to slide the tile to its new position, then press OK to lock it in place. This works for streaming channels, and on Roku TVs it also works for input source tiles. Rearranging the first page puts your most-used services at thumb-reach without having to scroll.

Your new order stays put across restarts and software updates. If a tile won’t budge, make sure you are on the main Home Screen grid and not inside a row like Quick Access or Top Picks — those sections sort themselves.

Removing Channels Without Deleting Your Account

Highlight the tile, press *, and choose Remove app or Remove channel. The tile disappears from the Home screen, but your account, subscription, and sign-in data all stay intact. You can reinstall the channel later from the Roku Channel Store without re-entering credentials. This is the cleanest way to declutter the grid without losing access to paid services.

Quick Access — Pin Your Most-Used Apps

Quick Access sits at the top of the newer Roku Home Screen and surfaces the apps you open most often — typically eight to twelve for most people, as Roku’s own guidance notes. To pin a specific channel there, highlight it, press *, and choose Add to Quick Access. To hide the entire Quick Access row, go to Settings > Home screen > Quick Access > Hide. The row adapts over time to your viewing habits, so unpinning apps you rarely open keeps it useful.

Which Rows Can You Hide on the Roku Home Screen?

The Home screen shows rows like Top Picks for You, For You, and Subscriptions by default. To clean up the view, go to Settings > Home screen > Recommendation rows > Hide. On older Roku software versions, the same menu hides Movie Store, TV Store, and News rows. Hiding these rows does not affect your recommendations or account — it only removes them from the screen. Roku’s personalization engine still tracks your viewing in the background, so suggestions stay relevant if you ever unhide the rows later.

Changing Tile Size Between Medium and Large

Go to Settings > Home screen > Tile Size and pick Medium or Large. Medium shows four apps per row, Large shows three per row. This setting applies to the main app grid only and does not affect the rows above it. Try Medium if you want more channels visible without scrolling; switch to Large if you prefer bigger icons that are easier to read from across the room.

Applying a Theme to Change the Home Screen Look

Roku lets you change the background and accent colors without affecting the app layout. Go to Settings > Themes > Theme Packs to browse and install free themes, or find more in the Roku Channel Store. Once installed, select one and set it as active from the same menu. This swaps the wallpaper and color palette but leaves the tile grid and rows exactly as you arranged them. PCWorld’s overview of the new Roku Home Screen notes that themes are a visual layer only — they do not alter the customization settings you have already applied.

Common Home Screen Editing Mistakes

The most frequent mistake people make is thinking they can undo Roku’s newer Home Screen entirely — Roku does not offer a full opt-out of the current layout, according to its official guidance. Another common pitfall is assuming hiding a row deletes your personalization data; it only removes the visual row, and your viewing history continues to inform recommendations behind the scenes. Tile size and Quick Access settings are also independent — changing one does not affect the other. And removing a channel from the grid does not cancel any subscriptions tied to it; that must be done separately through the channel itself or your Roku account settings.

Edit Your Roku Home Screen — The Ten-Minute Setup

Start by pressing * on every tile you never open and choosing Remove app — this clears the dead weight without losing your logins. Then move your five or six most-used channels to the top of the grid using the same star menu. Hide recommendation rows and Quick Access through Settings > Home screen if you prefer a minimal grid, or pin your top apps to Quick Access if you want one-tap access. Set tile size to Medium for density or Large for readability, then pick a theme from Settings > Themes > Theme Packs to match the room. All of these changes are reversible, so you can experiment without risk.