Home Screen

Home Screen

Turn on the device to display the Home screen. Depending on how your system administrator configured your device, your Home screen may appear differently than the graphics in this section.
After the device goes into Sleep mode, the Home screen displays with the lock icon. Touch the screen and swipe up to unlock. The Home screen provides four additional screens to place widgets and shortcuts. Touch and hold on an icon, and then move it for the option to place the icon on one of the other screens. Swipe the Home screen left or right to view the additional screens.
By default, AOSP devices do not have the same icons on the Home screen as GMS devices. Icons are shown below for example only.
Home screen icons can be configured by the user and may look different than shown.
Android 11 Home Screen
home screen
Android 13 Home Screen
1
Status bar
Displays the time, status icons (right side), and notification icons (left side).
2
Widgets
Launches stand-alone apps that run on the Home screen.
3
Shortcut icons
Opens apps installed on the device.
4
Folder
Contains apps.
5
Back
Displays the previous screen.
6
Home
Displays the home screen.
7
Recent
Displays recently used applications.