About your home screen

You see the home screen when you turn on and unlock your phone or swipe up from the bottom of the screen.

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: A customizable set of your most used apps, accessible from any home screen. Swipe up to search for an app or view the app tray.

  5. Navigation:

    takes you back one screen.

    returns you to the home screen from any app.

    lets you switch between recent apps.

  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:

  • Touch & hold an item you want to move, then drag it to the new location.
  • Group icons into folders.
  • Choose where to find your list of all apps: in the app tray or directly on the home screen.

Change how you get around: You can replace the navigation bar with the    navigation icons.

Change how it looks:

  • To see options for customizing wallpaper, and other home settings, touch & 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.