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How to move channels on your Roku to prioritize the icons you click on most often

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You can move the channels on your Roku media player with just a few clicks on your remote. Roku
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If you have more than a handful of channels on your Roku's home screen, you might want to organize them to make the channels you use most often easier to find. 

Thankfully, it's very easy to move channels around on the home screen, and you can put them in any order you like. Here's how to do it on your Roku device. 

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How to move channels on Roku

1. Using your Roku remote, navigate to the channel that you want to move. 

2. Press the asterisk button. The Details pop-up window should appear.

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Press the asterisk button to see the options for the selected channel.  Dave Johnson/Business Insider

3. Select "Move channel." You should see arrows appear around the icon.

4. Using the arrow buttons on the remote, move the channel icon around the screen until you position it where you want it to be. When you're done, press "OK" on the remote to save the position. 

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Use the arrow buttons to move the channel around the home screen.  Dave Johnson/Business Insider

5. Now just repeat that process for each streaming channel app that you want to move around the screen. If you don't want to see an app appear on the home screen at all, you can choose "Remove channel" from the Details pop-up. 

 

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Dave Johnson is a technology journalist who writes about consumer tech and how the industry is transforming the speculative world of science fiction into modern-day real life. Dave grew up in New Jersey before entering the Air Force to operate satellites, teach space operations, and do space launch planning. He then spent eight years as a content lead on the Windows team at Microsoft. As a photographer, Dave has photographed wolves in their natural environment; he's also a scuba instructor and co-host of several podcasts. Dave is the author of more than two dozen books and has contributed to many sites and publications including CNET, Forbes, PC World, How To Geek, and Insider.