Some visual options let you customize your app drawer and
home screen icons by selecting a few different geometric shapes.
Not exact matches
Activated
by quickly tapping (not pressing) the
home button twice, the feature pulls the top half of the
screen down and places the furthest on -
screen buttons or
icons within a thumb's reach.
By default, the Galaxy S9's
home screen positions its apps pretty far apart from each other, and it doesn't give you much control of where you want the app
icons to go.
While we're improving Maps, you can try alternatives
by downloading map apps from the App Store like Bing, MapQuest and Waze, or use Google or Nokia maps
by going to their websites and creating an
icon on your
home screen to their web app.
The Nextbook allows for five total
home screens; two are populated with
icons by default.
Your main apps are represented
by icons on the
home screen (you can also have
icons for individual contacts and bookmarks).
When your data consumption hits 50 % of 100 MB which is supposed to be your data allowance for the month, the application would immediately warn you on the
home screen of your device
by showing an
icon such as that which appears circled in red in the first image at the top of this article.
On the
home screen are four
icons meant to help organize apps
by type: eReading, Games, Multimedia, and Social.
Open your web browser (called Silk) on your Kindle Fire HD
by tapping the word «Web» above your
home screen's carousel, or tapping the Silk app
icon.
Since RIM first showed off BlackBerry 10 I was wondering what design aesthetic they were going with
by making all of the
home screen icons into rectangles.
You switch back to the parent mode
by tapping on the Family
icon in the top right corner of the
home screen and entering the four - digit lock code.
(You can create groups
by arranging
icons on your custom
home screens.)
Colors do pop brightly and that's supported
by the incredibly colorful TouchWiz skin which places
icons of different colors all over the
home screen.
Basically, I read my Gmail from the Playbook browser, it is accessible from the
icon shortcut installed
by default on the
home screen in the section «All».
Although it is possible to pull up an
icon screen on existing Amazon Fire devices, the back,
home and recent apps buttons shown on the display are radically different to those usually adopted
by Fire OS.
Unlike the iPod touch, the Galaxy Player 5.0 features a built - in FM radio, whose app you launch
by tapping a convenient
icon on the music player's first
home screen.
As with other Android devices, you can customize the layout of the
home screen by tapping and holding on
icons for a second and then dragging and dropping them to any location you like.
You can add app shortcuts to this main
screen by dragging and dropping
icons between
home screens.
On the
home screen, you have access
by default to the TouchWIZ widgets (Weather, Media Game Hub, Music Hub) and the following application
icons: Readers Hub, Email, Camera, YouTube, Maps, Browser, Samsung App store, Google Play Store
BlackBerry Pop - up Widgets are a pre-loaded feature on BlackBerry smartphones powered
by Android, which allow you to view any application widget
by simply swiping up or down across the
icon on your
home screen, giving you fast access to the information you need.
If the file was moved to your phone in any other way, you can find it easily
by tapping the magnifying glass
icon from the
home screen at the bottom in the middle and typing».
With this update, Poynt users on BlackBerry smartphones and Android devices have the added benefit of quick and accessible local event listings simply
by selecting the Events
icon displayed on the App's
home screen.
-- Register a channel to receive News for specific games To register, head to News > Find Channels — Add friends from your Nintendo 3DS and Wii U Friend Lists To add friends, head to your My Page on the top left of the
Home Menu > Friend Suggestions — Receive notifications when your Friends go online To turn this ON / OFF, head to System Settings > Notifications > Friend Notifications — Find paired controllers within communication range by activating the vibration feature To search, head to Controllers > Find Controllers — Change the user icon order on the Home Menu To change order, head to System Settings > Users > Change Order — Select from 6 new Splatoon 2 characters for user icon To edit your user icon, head to your My Page on the top left of the Home Menu > Profile — Change the system volume from the Quick Settings To access Quick Settings, hold down the HOME Button — Lower the maximum volume for headphone or speakers connected to the audio jack To lower the max headphone volume, head to System Settings > System > Lower Max Headphone Volume * This settings will be ON when Parental Controls are enabled — Change display colors to Invert Colors or Grayscale To use this feature, head to System Settings > System > Change Display Colors — Connect a USB keyboard to the dock to type whenever the keyboard is on the screen — Use the Nintendo Switch Pro Controller via wired communication by connecting the USB charging cable To enable, head to System Settings > Controllers and Sensors > Pro Controller Wired Communication * The NFC touchpoint on the Pro Controller will be disabled while the controller is using wired communicat
Home Menu > Friend Suggestions — Receive notifications when your Friends go online To turn this ON / OFF, head to System Settings > Notifications > Friend Notifications — Find paired controllers within communication range
by activating the vibration feature To search, head to Controllers > Find Controllers — Change the user
icon order on the
Home Menu To change order, head to System Settings > Users > Change Order — Select from 6 new Splatoon 2 characters for user icon To edit your user icon, head to your My Page on the top left of the Home Menu > Profile — Change the system volume from the Quick Settings To access Quick Settings, hold down the HOME Button — Lower the maximum volume for headphone or speakers connected to the audio jack To lower the max headphone volume, head to System Settings > System > Lower Max Headphone Volume * This settings will be ON when Parental Controls are enabled — Change display colors to Invert Colors or Grayscale To use this feature, head to System Settings > System > Change Display Colors — Connect a USB keyboard to the dock to type whenever the keyboard is on the screen — Use the Nintendo Switch Pro Controller via wired communication by connecting the USB charging cable To enable, head to System Settings > Controllers and Sensors > Pro Controller Wired Communication * The NFC touchpoint on the Pro Controller will be disabled while the controller is using wired communicat
Home Menu To change order, head to System Settings > Users > Change Order — Select from 6 new Splatoon 2 characters for user
icon To edit your user
icon, head to your My Page on the top left of the
Home Menu > Profile — Change the system volume from the Quick Settings To access Quick Settings, hold down the HOME Button — Lower the maximum volume for headphone or speakers connected to the audio jack To lower the max headphone volume, head to System Settings > System > Lower Max Headphone Volume * This settings will be ON when Parental Controls are enabled — Change display colors to Invert Colors or Grayscale To use this feature, head to System Settings > System > Change Display Colors — Connect a USB keyboard to the dock to type whenever the keyboard is on the screen — Use the Nintendo Switch Pro Controller via wired communication by connecting the USB charging cable To enable, head to System Settings > Controllers and Sensors > Pro Controller Wired Communication * The NFC touchpoint on the Pro Controller will be disabled while the controller is using wired communicat
Home Menu > Profile — Change the system volume from the Quick Settings To access Quick Settings, hold down the
HOME Button — Lower the maximum volume for headphone or speakers connected to the audio jack To lower the max headphone volume, head to System Settings > System > Lower Max Headphone Volume * This settings will be ON when Parental Controls are enabled — Change display colors to Invert Colors or Grayscale To use this feature, head to System Settings > System > Change Display Colors — Connect a USB keyboard to the dock to type whenever the keyboard is on the screen — Use the Nintendo Switch Pro Controller via wired communication by connecting the USB charging cable To enable, head to System Settings > Controllers and Sensors > Pro Controller Wired Communication * The NFC touchpoint on the Pro Controller will be disabled while the controller is using wired communicat
HOME Button — Lower the maximum volume for headphone or speakers connected to the audio jack To lower the max headphone volume, head to System Settings > System > Lower Max Headphone Volume * This settings will be ON when Parental Controls are enabled — Change display colors to Invert Colors or Grayscale To use this feature, head to System Settings > System > Change Display Colors — Connect a USB keyboard to the dock to type whenever the keyboard is on the
screen — Use the Nintendo Switch Pro Controller via wired communication
by connecting the USB charging cable To enable, head to System Settings > Controllers and Sensors > Pro Controller Wired Communication * The NFC touchpoint on the Pro Controller will be disabled while the controller is using wired communication.
You can delete your saved credit card info at any time
by tapping your profile
icon at the top right of the eShop
home screen and accessing the settings menu.
Users will be able to activate the application just
by selecting the
icon which will appear on the PS Vita
home screen and enjoy easy navigation using the touch
screen.
While the round
icon shape is used
by default, the Pixel Launcher also supports several options for customizing the look of system app
icons on the
Home and App Drawer
screens, including «Squircle,» «Rounded corner rect,» «Square,» and «Cylinder.»
You can add additional
screens by long - pressing an app
icon and then dragging it to the very edge of the
screen; after a few seconds, a new
home screen page should show up where you can drop the
icon.
There is one odd tweak: instead of accessing Google Now
by swiping up from the bottom of the
screen, you have to hold the
Home button (also how you access Recent Apps) and tap the Google search
icon in the corner.
To drop one of these
icons on your
home screen, just jump into your device's widgets menu
by long - pressing the
home screen and tapping the «Widgets»
icon.
With the long - press features introduced with Pixel Launcher, you are able to do more with
home screen icons, and Notification Dots takes this a step further
by allowing you to actually see the notification
by long - pressing the
icon.
Inside the
Home Settings (which can be accessed
by pressing down on the
screen and tapping the gear
icon), you'll see an Allow
Home screen rotation toggle.
There's no app drawer
icon on the
home screen by default, as you can simply swipe up or down to view all of your apps, but if you prefer having one, you can just turn it on in the settings.
You can toggle through the last 10 days of video history
by tapping a calendar
icon at the bottom of the camera's
home screen.
You can reach the settings menu
by either long - pressing the
home screen and tapping the gear
icon, or
by selecting the «Action Settings»
icon in your app drawer.
If you try Acrylic WiFi
Home, I suggest running it in Advanced Mode (get there
by clicking the settings
icon in the upper right of the
screen and selecting Advanced Mode).
Change the quick settings grid size: You can change the density of the quick settings
icons by changing the grid size (as you can on the
home screen and the apps tray (below)-RRB-.
You can also stop it
by tapping on the widget
icon again on your
home screen.
App shortcuts: With Android Nougat and upwards certain apps have shortcuts to actions that you can access
by pressing and holding their
icon on the
home screen.
New — Deep - level system optimizations (08 - 07) New — New
icons (08 - 07) New — New animations for launching and exiting apps (08 - 07) New — Simpler
Home screen editing (08 - 07) New — Introducing Split
screen (08 - 07) New — Improved Silent mode triggered
by the volume button (08 - 07) New — Improved readability for the start page of Messaging (08 - 07)
Adaptive
icons are here, and no doubt they will improve, but until they do, Action Launcher has decided to take matters into their own hands
by creating launcher - exclusive AdaptivePack to allow users to get Adaptive goodness on their
home screens without being completely besieged
by white backer plates.
You can pull down a list of recent notifications
by dragging down the notification drawer or
by tapping the New Events
icon on the
home screen.
Not only can you replace your
home screen, switch your default apps, and apply
icon packs, but you can even replace your entire lock
screen by installing a simple app.
You can enable the Comfort Eye Mode
by pulling down the top menu from the
home screen and tapping on the Eye Comfort
icon.
Home screen · New — Animated
icons for selected apps in the default theme (02 - 12) · Optimization — RAM info isn't shown in Recents
by default.
To apply your custom
icon pack, simply head to Nova Launcher's settings
by long - pressing any empty space on your
home screen and choosing «Settings.»
The most egregious change is forcing the
icons to stay visible on the
home screen by eliminating the app drawer.
However, you can access a few handy settings (like the ability to change
icon shapes)
by long - pressing any empty space on the
home screen, then tapping the settings gear.
The default
home screen is dominated
by a large widget that offers a couple rows of dynamically - changing app
icons.
If you've run out of space in existing
home screens, create a new one
by dragging an
icon to the right until it comes to a new
screen.
Lutron instead lumps all lighting and window - shade controls under the heading of Lights & Shades on its
home screen, where there's only enough room for four
icons for devices and four
icons for scenes, because one - third its area is consumed
by a functionless photo of a room that's not even from your
home.