The customization of an Honor X7 never stops, and that's a good thing for you, in fact, thanks to all the customization possibilities available, you have the possibility of enjoying an original mobile phone and your picture. This is one of the big advantages over Apple, which remains intuitive, however, which gives very little leeway to its users.
Today we are just going to learn how to change the home screen of your Honor X7? To get started, we will find out 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 X7 and, finally, how to use Widgets.
How to add a page to the home screen of your Honor X7?
So we start our tutorial on customization of the home screen of an Honor X7 with the addition of a page. You may have already noticed that you may have several pages on the home page of your smartphone in which you can navigate by sliding your screen to one side or the other. These pages are really interesting in the sense that they will give you the possibility of organizing and sorting the different information that you want to appear on your screen. Using the home screen on Android makes life easier, saves time, and, in one click, opens your favorite app. You will have the possibility of positioning on a first page only your social networks and the time, on a second, all your games, on a third a widget of the agenda to follow your next appointments. Creating a new homepage on an Honor X7 is actually very simple :
- Unlock your Honor X7
- Once on the home screen, pinch your fingers as if you wanted to zoom out
- You will see the various home screen pages appear in place
- You can now with the help of the small "+" Add a new page
- If you want delete a page from the home screen of your Honor X7 you will have to click on the logo in the shape of a trash can
How to change the application icons on the home screen of your Honor X7?
We now move on to the application icon part. This is the most popular home screen customization feature on Honor X7. In fact, 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. In the event that you wish add the time on your Honor X7 home screen, you can read our article.
How to add app shortcuts to the home screen of an Honor X7
- Unlock your Honor X7
- Go to the list of applications on your Honor X7 by swiping the screen upwards
- Identify the application you plan to add a shortcut to the home screen of your Honor X7
- Hold your finger on the latter icon and select » Add to Home Screen ", This term may change 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 X7, 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 hardest 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 slice 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 position it
How to add Widgets to the home screen of your Honor X7?
Last alternative, and not the least, you can modify the home screen of your Honor X7 by adding Widgets to it. Widgets are interactive blocks which can 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 need to constantly consult without having to open the app in question. Apply the following technique to display the list of Widgets available on your Honor X7 and add them to your home screens:
- Unlock the screen of your Honor X7
- Two alternatives, 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 discover the list of available Widgets, you will have a preview of their rendering, select the one you want and move it like any application shortcut
- Note however that they are more or less big, and that depending on the application it is sometimes possible to choose among different formats to match your needs.
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