Home Screen
Arrange & work with apps
From All Apps, you can:
- Explore your widgets: Touch the widgets tab at the top of any
All Apps screen.
- Get more apps: Touch the Play Store icon at the top of any All
Apps screen.
Manage notifications
- Open notifications panel: When a new notification appears on
the notification bar, you can drag the notification bar down from
the top of the screen to open notifications panel when your phone
has been in idle mode or lock the screen.
- Respond to a notification: Touch it.
- Dismiss a notification: Swipe it sideways.
- Close notifications panel: Drag the tab at the bottom of the
notification panel to the top of the screen.
Display area
The home screen can be extended to exceed the screen’s
width in order to provide more space for newly added shortcuts,
widgets, etc.
On the home screen, slide your finger on the screen to extend
to the left or right.
Place an app icon on a Home screen
Touch & hold the app icon, slide your finger, and lift your finger
to drop the icon in place.
Delete items on the homepage
Touch & hold the app icon, slide your finger toward the top of
the screen, and drop the app over the Remove icon.
Use folders
You can combine several app icons in a folder. Drop one app
icon over another on a Home screen, and the two icons will be
combined.
From any Home screen, you can
- Open a folder: Touch it. The folder opens:
- Rename a folder: Touch its name.
- Move icons around your Home screens: Touch, hold and slide.
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