The theme defaults to a standard
home screen setting where you swipe left or right to see installed apps.
This latest release offers an interesting and simplistic look with a unique
home screen set - up.
Some of the home - screen features can be turned off, such as Recent Apps and New Items, in
the Home Screen Settings.
If you don't want this here, you can remove it within
the home screen settings.
You might want to have
your home screen set up just the way you like it.
If you want to turn it off, just long - press on the home screen and open
the home screen settings.
Although if you're not a fan, these can be easily changed in
the home screen settings panel.
If you love this idea, under
Home Screen settings (the same place where you disabled Google feed), turn on the Auto - Rotate option.
It comes with a host of features, including the ability to backup and restore
your home screen set ups, icon theming for all of your Android apps, tons of customization elements for the home screen and app drawer, and more.
Some of the home - screen features can be turned off, such as Recent Apps and New Items, in
the Home Screen Settings.
Alternatively, you can long - press any empty spot on your home screen, then select «
Home screen settings.»
If you want to remove the apps tray, long press on the home screen and tap «
home screen settings».
If you want the button back head into
the home screen settings as above and select «apps button».
Long press on your wallpaper on the home screen and tap «
home screen settings».
As above, go into
the home screen settings, and you'll see the option for «apps screen grid», with options for 4x6 or 5x6.
Long press on the wallpaper and select «
home screen settings».
To stop this happening and making your Pixel basically looking like an iPhone, long press on the wallpaper and enter the «
home screen settings».
The option was previously found in
the home screen settings since dev preview 2, but has now been removed.
You can get
your home screen set up exactly as you want with Action Launcher and you can find your way around it real quick.
An Icon Badge option now appears in
the home screen settings, which enables app notification dots (although these only seem to appear in a single color right now).
With the new Pixel 2 line of devices, Google simply moved this option to
the home screen settings in their launcher.
It offers a lot of the same features, aggregating news, weather, and frequently used apps, but if it's not your thing you can always switch back to Google's feed in
the home screen settings.
Users can access it and bring it back via
the home screen settings of the smartphone.
Quick toggles, split screen, picture - in - picture, lock screen shortcuts,
home screen settings, and torch / flashlight, are just some of those features that came to stock Android only after they've been around on OEM devices.
Note: It's easy to restore either option to its previous setting through
the home screen settings panel.
If you want to make more extensive home screen changes long press on the home screen and select
the Home screen settings icon.
Select
Home screen settings > Hide apps.
The home screens are obviously large and clear with a 4.3 - inch display, and the extra estate means HTC can offer up massively functional widgets or half sized versions of many of them so you can fit more onto
your home screen set up.
For the LG G5, the app drawer has been disabled by default, though the feature can still be brought back through the smartphone's
home screen settings.
Here's How: Long press on an empty space on the home screen and then tap Wallpapers, Themes, Widgets or
Home Screen Settings to make changes.
The quickest way to backup all important data is by using Samsung's Smart Switch software on a PC, which backs up SMS, phone and
home screen settings, call logs, apps, images and other media, documents, and more.
If you're not a fan of the Shelf feature, it can easily be disabled within
the home screen settings.
Tap the three dots on the top - right edge of the screen, and go to
Home screen settings.
There are things like OnePlus» Shelf feature off to the side of the home screens, which is a nice way to present recent apps and contacts, but it can easily be disabled in
the home screen settings.
The home screen sets Android apart from other mobile platforms, and it's an excellent marker to judge Android's state and evolution.
In most smartphones, you simply pinch to get into
the home screen settings to find your basic options like Wallpapers, etc..
To do all this, you will need to tap on the Options icon on the top right in App drawer, and there you would be able to see a few options — «View Apps by», «Show large icons», «Hide / Show apps», «Edit / Uninstall apps» and «
Home screen settings».
Step 1: Long press an empty space on your Galaxy S8 or S8 +'s home screen and then click on
Home Screen Settings.
You can also fiddle with
the Home screen settings from this Personalise screen by choosing Home Screen Settings.
You can also access
the home screen settings here.
Head into
the home screen settings and you'll see the option for «apps button» to turn it back on.
Head into
the home screen settings and select «home screen grid».
The setting to disable icons from being added to the home screen was in the Play Store settings, but Google switched things up with the Oreo update and moved it to
the home screen settings.
If you'd like to disable that, you can do so from
the home screen settings.
Last but not the least, as all recent Samsung devices, the Alpha has My Magazine preloaded, a feature that can't be turned off (unless you're rooted), if wanted, can be turned off under
home screen settings.
To remove it, stay in
the home screen settings menu and choose «Icon shape», then select «original» to remove the icon background.
Not exact matches
Screening Room would allow users to rent new movies immediately upon their theatrical release to stream at
home through a $ 150
set - top box.
Users can also
set up a Privacy Folder to keep sensitive information separate from their
home screen.
From there, you're brought to the
home screen, which pulls up
sets of shows and movies it thinks will be relevant to you.
You can swipe down from anywhere on the Galaxy S9's display to pull down the notifications panel, even at the very bottom of the display, by heading to
Settings > Display >
Home screen > Quick - open notification panel, then turn on the
setting.