Some of the extra features include 3D animations, an unlimited dock bar, batch selections of things
like icons on the home screen, widgets, and more.
Not exact matches
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.
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.
Just swipe
on the
home screen from right to left a few times to find the
icon and put it in whatever folder or
home screen you
like.
To get started, you tap an
icon on the
home screen which asks if you'd
like to add a device, remove a device, move, or create a custom remote — the latter of which creates a blank slate to create a mix of buttons from any and all of your programmed devices.
Some manufacturers set the launchers
on their phones to offer a more simplistic look that places all app
icons on the
home screen and doesn't offer things
like the app drawer, widgets, and the
like — these come off more
like the iPhone
home screen.
It also comes with support for
icon packs, a no - dock mode, and you can change things
like the grid size
on the
home screen.
An iCloud Drive
icon will appear
on your
home screen and you can launch this app
like any other.
And — just
like on Windows 10 — with Microsoft Launcher you can put
icons of your favorite people right
on the
home screen so they're quickly and easily available.
To uninstall a keyboard, remove the app
like you normally would — long - press the app
icon on your
home screen and tap the X that appears.
The
icon will appear
on your
home screen like any other app shortcut or widget, so you can drag it around and put it wherever you
like.
Step 3: Once the source has been added, head back to the main
home screen, select Add -
ons, and then the package browser
icon which looks
like an open box.
The
home screen now features notification dots
on your
icons, so you can see what's new, just
like on iOS.
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.
Now, tap the new Assistive Touch
icon, and you're able to tap to activate Siri, the
Home button, or access your own, custom Favorite gestures, as well as more Device - centric options,
like volume, lock
screen, and screenshot options with a tap
on the Device
icon.
This can be shrunk (
like a Facebook Messenger chathead) and placed as a floating
icon on the
home screen.
The phone's
home screen is laid out identically, though app
icons for first - party programs
like Messages and Phone have been redrawn based
on Google's Material Design guidelines.
Check out these amazing iPhone
home screens It's not
like you can ever find the app you're looking for
on your various
home screens anyway, so why not do something fancy with those
icons instead?
You can place any shortcut
icon, such as a photo, song or document
on the
home screens just
like you can
on any PC, not just applications, as
on the iPhone.
If you then need to move onto another task then an open app can be further reduced to a floating
icon - a bit
like a Facebook Messenger Chat Head - anywhere
on the
home screen.
The new video previews will be presented as circular
icons on the Netflix app
home screen like Instagram Stories.
No surprises there, the MIUI looks
like a mixture of iOS and Android as you don't see any app drawer, but still place widgets and shortcuts
on the same
home screens where the app
icons are located.
A new feature that I particularly
like is that you can now swipe up or down
on the
home screen to access the app
screen, which not only frees up an
icon on the dock but replicates the gesture found
on the Pixel phones, as well as popular Android launchers such as Nova.
If you want to see what a 7.85 - inch iPad looks
like then you can print the PDF (
Home Screen (6 MB), Keyboard (18 MB) or checkout the actual size on your iPad by pointing Safari to following URL (launching it as a web icon from the home scre
Home Screen (6 MB), Keyboard (18 MB) or checkout the actual size on your iPad by pointing Safari to following URL (launching it as a web icon from the home sc
Screen (6 MB), Keyboard (18 MB) or checkout the actual size
on your iPad by pointing Safari to following URL (launching it as a web
icon from the
home scre
home screenscreen).
Folders are more iOS -
like too, with users given the ability to drag and drop
icons on top of one another from the
home screen to create bundles of apps which you can simply rename.
Instead, it is set up
like iOS, where
icons for each and every app
on the device are spread across the various
home screens.
While you can use this to theme every
icon on your
home screen in launchers that don't work with
icon packs — or don't work with
icon packs from the Google Play,
like Samsung TouchWiz and HTC Sense — it can get time - consuming.
In short, Google Now Launcher will feel stock and get you that all - important Google Now page
on the left, but the
icons won't look
like Google's and if you have a larger
screen, you might feel
like the
home screen grid leaves a lot of wasted space.
You'll be able to move Quick Tiles around as usual, but you can also drag them up to the top and throw them away
like you do
icons on your
home screen.
Just a quick look at the red elements of the Google Photos and Chrome
icons on the Android
home screen — both of which look brown
on the Pixel 2 XL — tells me I'm not going to
like where this weird
screen is going.