Get Familiar with the Home Screen
Home Screen Overview
The new setup allows you to customize your tablet home screen and group important
content in easy-to-access locations with service widgets, large folders, and other features.
Get a Grip on the Revamped Home Screen
Status bar: Shows the status of your tablet and notifications at the top of the screen.
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Large folders: Directly opens an app when you touch the corresponding app icon, without
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expanding the folder. The folder size can be adjusted as needed.
Service widgets: Previews services and provides direct access to frequently-used app
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features without requiring you to open each corresponding app. You can stack or combine
multiple service widgets as needed.
Screen navigation bar: Swipe left or right to view apps and widgets on different screens.
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The indicator shows which screen you are currently on.
Shortcut bar: Displays frequently used and recent apps. Drag the slider in the middle of the
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shortcut bar to adjust the number of recently-used apps you'd like to display.
Use Service Widgets
Service widgets allow you to:
Preview or access apps, such as to view the weather forecast, or play music.
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Select from a range of service widget styles and layouts to customize your home screen.
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Stack and combine multiple service widgets to save home screen space, streamline your
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home screen, and navigate with greater ease.
Apps with a widget bar
bar, go to Settings > Home screen & style > Home screen settings > Show widget bars.
This feature is not supported in certain scenarios. Actual usage shall prevail.
Add Service Widgets to Your Home Screen
You can add a service widget to the home screen in any of the following ways:
Swipe up on an app icon to expand its service widget, and touch
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widget to the home screen.
Swipe up on an app icon to expand its service widget, touch and hold down on the service
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widget, touch More service widgets, select your desired style, and touch Add to home
screen.
Touch and hold down on an app icon, touch Service widgets, select your desired style, and
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touch Add to home screen.
at the bottom support service widgets. To remove the widget
Essentials
to add the service
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