About your home screen

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

You start with one home screen and can add more pages to the right as needed. To add a page, drag an app shortcut or widget to the edge of an existing page and place it on the new page.

Swipe right or left to move between pages.

Here are the parts of your home screen:

  1. Status bar: Displays the time and icons that tell you about your phone's battery and network connections. Swipe down to view your notifications and to open your quick settings, handy toggle switches.
  2. Widget: You can add widgets to your home screen for quick access to information or frequent tasks.
  3. Shortcut: Opens an app or a web page. You can add shortcuts to apps or web pages you use frequently, instead of opening and scrolling through your list of all apps or navigating your bookmarks.
  4. Favorites tray: Provides one touch access to your most-used apps from any of the home screen pages. You can customize which apps appear in the Favorites tray. To open the list of all your apps, touch .
  5. Navigation: takes you back one screen. returns you to the home screen from any app. lets you switch between recent apps. 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.
  6. Folder: Add folders to organize app shortcuts.

When the phone is in Battery Saver mode, the top (status bar) and bottom (navigation buttons) of the home screen turns orange.

See also

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