Long-press on a blank area of the home screen, select the settings icon. There may be 2 settings there - "Home screen layout" and "apps button". The former allows a swipe up to access the app drawer, the latter adds the apps button back to the home screen.
This is how it is on my Tab S3 running Oreo, I believe this should be the same as your S7.
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