The personalization of an Honor Play 8 never stops, and it is a good thing for you, indeed, thanks to all the possibilities of personalization which are proposed, you will be able to benefit from a unique device and in your image. . This is, among other things, one of the big advantages over Apple, which remains easy to use, however, which gives its users very little room for maneuver.
In this guide, we are going to see how to change the home screen of your Honor Play 8? In this context, first of all, we will see how to add a new page to your home screen, then, how to add or remove app shortcuts on the home screen of your Honor Play 8 and, finally, how to use Widgets.
How to add a page to the home screen of its Honor Play 8?
So let's start our article on personalization of the home screen of an Honor Play 8 with the addition of a page. You've probably already noticed, you can have several pages on the home page of your phone that you can navigate by sliding your screen to one side or the other. These pages are really interesting in the sense that they will allow you to organize and sort the different information that you want to appear on your screen. Using the home screen on Android makes your life easier, avoids wasting time, and, in one click, opens your favorite app. You will be able to position your social networks and the time on a first page only, on a second, all of your games, on a third a calendar widget to keep an eye on your next meetings. Creating a new homepage on an Honor Play 8 is actually very easy :
- Unlock your Honor Play 8
- Now that you're on your home screen, pinch your fingers as if you're trying to zoom out
- You will see the different home screen pages in place
- You can now thanks to the small "+" Add a new page
- In the event that you wish to delete a page from the home screen of your Honor Play 8 you will need to click on the trash can logo
How to change the application icons on the home screen of its Honor Play 8?
We now go to the application icon part. This is the most used home screen personalization feature on Honor Play 8. Indeed, we spend on average more than 2 hours a day in front of our screen and we are very often on 2 or 3 applications like Facebook, Instagram or YouTube. It is therefore essential to be able to access these apps quickly and not have to search for them each time in the list. If you ever want to add the time on your Honor Play 8 home screen, we invite you to watch our article.
How to add app shortcuts to the home screen of an Honor Play 8
- Unlock your Honor Play 8
- Go to the application list of your Honor Play 8 by swiping the screen upwards
- Locate the app you are planning to add as a shortcut to the home screen of your Honor Play 8
- Hold your finger on the latter's icon and click » Add to Home Screen ", This term may vary depending on the Android version installed on your device
How to move app shortcuts to the Home screen
Once you have added all the app shortcuts you want on the home screen of your Honor Play 8, you will now have to move them to position them on the right page and in the right place. The technique is particularly simple and you have already done the hard part:
- Hold down the icon of the app you want to move
- Drag it to the location on the screen where you want to position it if you don't want to change the page
- Otherwise, drag and hold it towards the side edge of the screen (as far to the left or to the right as possible depending on the location of the page on which you want to drop it) and wait to change the page until you reach the one where you want to put it
How to add Widgets on the home screen of your Honor Play 8?
Last alternative, and not the least, it is possible to customize the home screen of your Honor Play 8 by adding Widgets. Widgets are interactive blocks which will be able to display the data of a specific application, such as the calendar, your emails, the time, the date ... They are very practical for information that you want to consult frequently without having to open the app in question. Apply the procedure below to discover the list of Widgets available on your Honor Play 8 and add them to your home screens:
- Unlock the screen of your Honor Play 8
- Two possibilities, either you pinch the screen as if you wanted to zoom out, either you leave pressed in an empty place where you want to add a Widgets
- Now click on » Widgets »And you will see the list of available Widgets appear, you will have a preview of their rendering, choose the one you want and move it like any application shortcut
- Note, however, that they are more or less large, and that depending on the application it is sometimes possible to use different formats to match your needs.
If you want as many tutorials as possible to become the king of Honor Play 8, we invite you to explore the other tutorials in the category: Honor Play 8.
