General Group Pinned Apps into Folders on Start Menu in Windows 11

This tutorial will show you how to organize and group your pinned apps on the Start menu into folders for your account in Windows 11.

The Start menu is comprised of three sections: Pinned, All apps, and Recommended.

The Start menu contains shortcuts of all your apps, settings, and files.

Starting with Windows 11 build 22557, you can now customize your pinned apps on the Start menu by organizing them into folders. You can add more apps to a folder, rearrange apps within a folder, and remove apps from a folder.

Starting with Windows 11 build 22567, when you hover one pinned app icon over another, there will now be a small animation to hint that this will create a folder.

Starting with Windows 11 build 22579, you can now name your folders of apps in Start.




EXAMPLE: Folders in the pinned apps area on Start







1 Open the Start menu .

2 Drag and drop a pinned app you want in the folder on top of another pinned app you want to group in the same folder. (see screenshot below)

When you drag a pinned app on top of another pinned app, you should see the other pinned app shrink for you to then drop the dragged pinned app to create the folder.

3 You can now change the name of this folder of grouped apps.

This option is only available in Windows 11 build 26120.3576 (Beta/Dev 24H2) and build 22635.5090 (Beta 23H2) and higher.

1 Open the Start menu .

2 Right click on a pinned app you want to create a new folder, and click/tap on Create a new app folder. (see screenshot below)

3 You can now change the app folder name if wanted.







1 Open the Start menu .

2 Drag and drop a pinned app you want to add to a folder on top of the folder. (see screenshot below)

This option is only available in Windows 11 build 26120.3576 (Beta/Dev 24H2) and build 22635.5090 (Beta 23H2) and higher.

1 Open the Start menu .

2 Right click on a pinned app you want to move into a folder. (see screenshot below)

3 Click/tap on Move to app folder.

4 Click/tap on an existing folder name (ex: "Folder" or "Folder2") you want to move the app to.







1 Open the Start menu .

2 Click/tap on a folder you want to rearrange apps in. (see screenshots below)

3 Drag and drop apps in the folder to where you want inside the folder to rearrange them.

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1 Open the Start menu .

2 Click/tap on a folder you want to remove an app from to open the folder. (see screenshots below)

3 Drag and drop an app from the folder to where you want in the Pinned apps area on the Start menu.

This option is only available in Windows 11 build 26120.3576 (Beta/Dev 24H2) and build 22635.5090 (Beta 23H2) and higher.

1 Open the Start menu .

2 Click/tap on a folder you want to remove an app from to open the folder. (see screenshots below)

3 Right click on an app in the folder you want to remove from the folder.

4 Click/tap on Remove from app folder.







1 Open the Start menu .

2 Click/tap on a folder you want to remove to open the folder.

3 Drag and drop all apps in the folder to where you want in the Pinned apps area on the Start menu.


That's it,
Shawn Brink