The customization of an OPPO A16 never stops, and that's good, in fact, by using all the customization options that are offered, you can have a unique mobile phone that reflects your image. This is one of the big advantages over Apple, which remains simple to use, but leaves little room for the creativity of its users.
In this guide, we are going to discover how to change the home screen of your OPPO A16? To do this, first, 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 OPPO A16 and, finally, how to use Widgets.
How to add a page to the home screen of your OPPO A16?
We start by consequently our guide on the customization of the home screen of an OPPO A16 with the addition of a page. You may have already noticed that you can have several pages on your phone's home page that you can navigate by swiping your screen from 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 applications and data that you want to integrate into your screen. Using the home screen on Android makes life easier, saves time, and, in one click, opens your favorite app. You can put 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 OPPO A16 is actually very simple :
- Unlock your OPPO A16
- Now that you're on your home screen, pinch your fingers like you want to zoom out
- You will have a preview of the different home screen pages available
- You can now, through the small "+" Add a new page
- In the event that you want delete a page from the home screen of your OPPO A16 you will need to click on the trash can logo
How to organize application icons on the home screen of your OPPO A16?
We now move on to the application icon part. This is the most popular home screen customization feature on OPPO A16. 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 important to be able to access these apps quickly and not have to search for them each time in the list. If you want add time on your OPPO A16 home screen, you can read our article.
How to Add App Shortcuts to Home Screen of OPPO A16
- Unlock your OPPO A16
- Access the list of applications of your OPPO A16 by swiping the screen upwards
- Identify the application you want add as a shortcut on the home screen of your OPPO A16
- Hold your finger on the latter icon and select » Add to Home Screen “, This term may vary depending on the Android version installed on your smartphone
How to move app shortcuts to the Home screen
Once you have added all the applications you want to the home screen of your OPPO A16, you will now have to move them to position them on the right page and in the right place. The procedure 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 in the event that you do not 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 put it
How to add Widgets to the home screen of your OPPO A16?
Last option, and not the least, it is possible to modify the home screen of your OPPO A16 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 consult regularly without having to open the app in question. Follow the following procedure to view the list of Widgets available on your OPPO A16 and add them to your home screens:
- Unlock the screen of your OPPO A16
- 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 see the list of available Widgets, you will have a preview of their rendering, choose the one you want and move it like any application shortcut
- Be aware, 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.
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