Home Screen

Home Screen Layout

In Home Screen Layout you can choose whether you want your apps on the home screen or if you want your apps on a separate app screen which is typically the default setting. You can still have some apps on your home screen that you use frequently if you don’t like the clutter of apps on your home screen.

Home Screen Grid

The home screen grid allows you to change the size of the layout on your home screen that apps and widgets fit in to. If you have a lot of apps you probably want to increase the size of the grid so you can fit more on one page vs. having a small grid and multiple home screen pages.

App Screen Grid

The App screen grid, like the home screen grid changes the size of the app screen layout to allow you to fit more apps on one page so you don’t have to scroll through so many pages to find the apps you need.

Folder Grid

On the home screen, you can organize apps in a folder to your liking. (For example, you can organize apps of the same content like all social media in one folder or all finance apps in the same folder or you could organize apps by color.) The folder grid changes the layout for how many apps are in each row. If you have less apps in a folder you may want the folder grid to be 3×4 (three apps horizontally and four apps vertically) if you have more apps in a folder you may want to change it to 4×4 so you have less app screens to cycle through in that folder.

Add Media Page to Home Screen

When this setting is turned on, you can swipe all the way to the left on your home screen to see news articles and videos that you may be interested in. When this setting is turned off you will not be able to access these features.

Show App Screen Button on Home Screen

Depending on your customized settings, you can access your app screen by swiping up from the bottom on your home screen. With this setting on you will have an app screen icon you can click on to access your apps.

Lock Home Screen Layout

Once you have all of your apps and widgets customized on your home screen you can turn this on so nothing can manually be moved around. If your touch gestures to move apps isn’t working you may have this setting turned on.

Add New Apps to Home Screen

This setting is usually automatically disabled but if you turn it on, all new apps that you download will automatically show up on your home screen instead of just your app screen.

Hide Apps

With this setting you can hide apps that you don’t want to be seen on your home screen or app screen. You may want to utilize this setting if you are worried about wandering eyes seeing what apps you’ve downloaded.

App Icon Badges

If you want to know what apps have notifications you can toggle these settings to show numbers (the numbers represent how many unseen notifications you have in an app i.e. if you have three messages you will see the number 3 in the top right corner of the app) or you can change it to dots where it wont show the number but you can see that the is unseen notifications on an app.

Notifications on App Icons

With this turned on, you can hold the app icon to view unseen notifications without opening the app.

Swipe Down for Notification Panel

With this off, whether you swipe up or down anywhere on the home screen you will arrive at the app screen and for the notification panel you swipe down from the top of the screen. When you turn this setting on you can swipe down anywhere on the home screen to see your notification panel.

Rotate to Landscape Mode

When this is on your phone screen can be viewed horizontally on the phones side to view a wider view of the screen. Note: If you have portrait lock on then your phone will not rotate even if this setting is on.