About your home screen

You see the home screen when you turn on and unlock your phone or touch .

Swipe right or left to move between Home screens.

What’s on the screen

Status bar: displays the time and icons that tell you about your phone's battery and network connections. Swipe down to see your notifications and quick settings.
Widget: You can add widgets to your Home screen for quick access to information or frequent tasks.
Shortcut: You can add shortcuts to open apps or web pages you use frequently.
App tray: Swipe up from the bottom of the screen to see the list of all your apps.
Favourite tray: provides one-touch access to your most-used apps from any Home screen page. You can customise which apps appear here.
Navigation:
takes you back one screen.
returns you to the Home screen from any app.
lets you switch between recent apps. Touch to see a list of recent apps. Touch twice to switch between your two most recent apps. Touch & hold to use split screen.
lets you zoom in/out if you have visual impairments. Appears after you enable accessibility settings.
**Note**If you don't use these buttons often, they may shrink to dots or fade away, depending on the current app. To bring them back, touch their location.
Folder: Add folders to organise app shortcuts.

Add/remove screens

You can add more Home screens to the right. To add a page, drag an app shortcut or widget to the edge of an existing page and place it on the new screen.

To remove a Home screen, drag all apps, shortcuts, widgets, and folders off the screen. After you remove the last item, the Home screen will be removed.

Customise your home screen

Organise it:

touch and hold an item you want to move, then drag it to the new location.
group icons into folders.

Change how it looks:

to see options for customising wallpaper, widgets and other Home settings, touch and hold a blank space on the Home screen.
For an entirely new look and feel for your Home screen, you can install a different launcher.