Not exact matches
For starters, there is no
app drawer in the traditional
sense, and instead, your
apps are all visible on the home screen like they are on an iPhone.
I missed Pixel features like swiping up to access the
app drawer and the classy weather widget, but from
Sense's settings suggestions to the Flip to mute toggle, I generally enjoyed HTC's spin on Nougat.
When you're looking at icons on a black background (like in the
app drawer), you can't even see the black, if that makes
sense.
And the
Sense Home launcher inherits a couple of fashionable features from other phones, letting you swipe up for the
app drawer, or down for notifications.
As far as new HTC software features go, you get a new HTC
Sense launcher with easy access to the
app drawer or notification shade with a swipe up or swipe down actions anywhere on the home screen.
You can also change the layout of
app icons on your home screen and in the
app drawer, allowing you to further change the
sense of space.
This makes a lot of
sense compared to the redundancy of having both customizable home screen pages and many pages of hard - to - find alphabetically organized pages of
apps in the
drawer.
The latest case in point is its
Sense Home launcher which, according to a leak from LlabTooFer, will be updated to implement the Google Pixel Launcher's swipe up gesture to pull up the
app drawer.