Visual Walkthrough: Exactly Where to Click to Move Apps on Your Roku Screen

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Moving apps solves visual clutter, but leaving dead services installed degrades performance over time. Older hardware models and smart televisions with limited onboard flash storage can experience menu latency when forced to hold cached assets for 60 different channels.

If you hit the Asterisk star button on a service you no longer use, look just below the "Move channel" line in that same pop-up menu. You will see Remove channel. Selecting this removes the app from your Roku entirely, clearing local system memory and freeing up screen real estate.

If you are paying for an active subscription directly through Roku Pay, the menu will prompt you to manage or cancel recurring billing before completing the deletion. If your subscription is managed externally (for instance, through a direct bundle with Disney+ or Max), selecting remove instantly deletes the channel without modifying your third-party billing account.

For channels you watch infrequently but want to keep installed, place them on the bottom rows of your grid. Reserve the top two rows (the first six tiles) for your daily staples: local broadcast apps, primary live-TV aggregators, and your most-used subscription libraries.