Just plugging your smart phone, and the tile will appear on
the bottom left of the home screen, eventually.
Not exact matches
The
home screen, accessible by pushing the
home button at the top
of the
screen, shows navigation on the
left side and two cards on the right, with audio on top and phone status on the
bottom.
The system also feels shallower; returning to the
home screen is as simple as hitting a button on the
bottom left side
of the
screen.
Along the top
left edge
of the Mini's interface is the
Home button, which can be accessed from any other
screen by tapping the
bottom / middle
of the display.
There are three main buttons on the
bottom of the
screen which function as the
Left / Right and
Home.
In the
bottom left corner
of the
screen, you'll find the ever - present Android navigation buttons, including Back,
Home, Recent Apps and Settings.
Beyond this, you'll still find the Back,
Home and All Apps buttons along the
bottom left of the
screen.
A taskbar at the
bottom of the
screen has software back,
home, and task - switching buttons on its
left and alerts, clock, and wireless / battery icons on the right side.
But what would annoy me are the ad banners that show up on the
bottom of the
home screen (see the lower
left photo).
A swipe from the
bottom brings users back to the
home screen from an app, with a nifty row
of status indicators for emails, tweets, and other messages resting on the
left, and a swipe from the top brings down user settings.
As usual, you get 5 desktops you can customize in order to properly arrange all your apps and widgets, while at the
bottom of the
screen you have Android buttons on the
left (back,
home and task switching), while on the right you get alerts for battery, WiFi and the clock.
Examples
of the overboard: The favorite apps section at the
bottom of the
Home screens now also slides
left and right so you can add up to 10 more, but at that point you might as well just use more
Home screens.
At first blush, I can't say that the idea
of swiping up from the
bottom to return
home is particularly intuitive, and neither is the distinction between a swipe down from the
left of the
screen's monobrow (for notifications) and a swipe down from the right (which pulls up the iOS Control Center).
Swiping up from the
bottom of the display while you're on the
home screen shows your apps on the
left and Control Center on the right for tweaking various settings.
The most obvious tweak is a redesigned Google search field: Where the original Pixels had a search «pill» in the top -
left corner, the Pixel 2s have a full - width search field at the
bottom of the
home screen.
You can swipe up from the
bottom of the
home screen to open the app drawer, which is now slightly opaque, so you don't feel like you're
leaving the
home screen.
Details
of the actual feed are lacking in Taboola's press release, which you can link to at the
bottom of this story, but from the pictures provided, it looks as if a widget and a dedicated
home screen pane (where the Google feed would be at farthest
left) will be involved.
In other words, you can swipe up to access your app drawer, the Google Search widget is at the
bottom of your
home screen, the At a Glance widget will showcase the weather and upcoming calendar appointments, and there's a fully - functional Google Feed on the
left - side
of your setup (for better or worse).
iOS: Swipe
left to right from your lock
screen or your main
home screen > Scroll down to the Edit icon at the
bottom > Add the WhatsApp Recent Chats icon > Rearrange the order
of your widgets
Specific to the iPhone X are a couple
of changes that come about as a result
of not having that
home button: you now swipe up from the
bottom to go
home, a longer swipe will allow you to access the apps that are open, and then there is a circular thumb motion or
left and right swipe at the
bottom of the
screen to change apps.
Once the setting is enabled, the on -
screen buttons disappear and a brief tutorial guides you through the three new gestures: swipe up from the middle part
of the
bottom of the display to go
home; swipe up from either the
left or right parts
of the
bottom to go back; and swipe up from the middle and hold to activate the multitasking
screen.
Your main
home screen — as in the one you get when you hit the
home button — is
left of center, and has a standard five - across quick launch bar at the
bottom that you can put any apps you want in it, with additional rows available if you want more than five apps.
Additionally, the smartphone has a small bezel at the top and
bottom of the
screen, apparently
leaving no room for a physical
home button.
Normally, a big phone forces you to strrrretch your thumb between a
Home button at the
bottom of the
screen, a notification tray way on the top
of the
screen, app back buttons in the upper
left corner
of the
screen, and power / volume keys high up on the sides.