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

  1. 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.
  2. Widget: Your phone comes with this widget and the search widget, but isn't intended for other resource-intensive widgets because it runs Android Go, which is optimized for limited hardware resources. To add widgets, even if they reduce your phone's performance, install a launcher that supports widgets for Android Go.
  3. Shortcut: You can add shortcuts to open apps you use frequently.
  4. Favorites tray: Provides one touch access to your most-used apps from any home screen page. You can customize which apps appear here.

  5. Navigation:

    takes you back one screen.

    returns you to the home screen from any app.

    lets you switch between recent apps.

    NoteIf 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.
  6. Folder: Add folders to organize app shortcuts.

Add/remove screens

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

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

Customize your home screen

Organize it:

Change how it looks: