Samsung Galaxy S8+ User Manual
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Learn About Your Device24 Home Screen Status bar Widget Primary app shortcuts BackRecent apps Home Edge screen
Learn About Your Device25 The following topics describe how to use and customize your phone’s home screen, understand the status bar, and use the notification panel. Home Screen Basics The home screen is the starting point for your phone’s applications, functions, and menus. You can customize your home screen by adding application icons, shortcuts, folders, widgets, and more. • Status bar : The status bar displays icons to notify you of your phone’s status (on the right side) and notifications (on the left side). -Status area : Displays phone and service status information such as signal strength, battery status, Wi-Fi and data connectivity, ringer status, and time. -Notification area : Displays notifications for incoming messages, missed calls, application updates, and more. • Edge screen : Drag left to display the Edge screen. • Widget: Widgets are simple application extensions that run on your phone’s home screen. • Primary app shortcuts : Shortcuts that appear in the same location on all of your phone’s home screens. • Back : Returns you to the previous screen, or close a dialog box, options menu, the notification panel, or the keyboard. • Home : Returns you to the home screen. • Recent apps : Access recently used apps. Tip : Tap Home to return to the main home screen from any other screen.
Learn About Your Device26 Extended Home Screens In addition to the main home screen, your phone features extended home screens to provide more space for adding icons, widgets, and more. Tap Home to display the main home screen and then swipe the screen right or left to move from the main screen to an extended screen. • If you are not already using the maximum number of screens for your phone, you can add more screens by touching and holding an empty space on a home screen, sliding the thumbnails to the left, and then tapping Add page . • While on an extended screen, tap Home to return to the main home screen.
Learn About Your Device27 Customize Your Home Screen Learn how to set the wallpaper and add, move, or remove shortcuts, widgets, and folders from the home screen. Operations for Rearranging the Home Screen • Moving widgets and icons: From home, touch and hold an item, and then drag it to the desired location. • Deleting widgets and icons : From home, touch and hold an item, and then drag it to Remove . • Displaying the home screen menu : From home, touch and hold an empty space to display the home screen menu. Menu options include Wallpapers and themes, Widgets, and Screen grid settings. You also have the option to add or remove home screens. Change the Wallpaper Select and assign your phone’s background wallpaper. 1. From home, touch and hold an empty space, and then tap Wallpapers and themes > Wallpapers . • You can also access the wallpaper menu through settings. From home, swipe up to access Apps . Tap Settings > Wallpapers and themes > Wallpapers . 2. Tap an option to select the wallpaper, and then select: • Home screen to set the background wallpaper for your home screen. • Lock screen to set the wallpaper for your phone’s lock screen. • Home and lock screens to set a wallpaper for both your home screen and your lock screen. 3. Tap Set as wallpaper .
28 Home Screen Settings Customize your Home and Apps screens. 1. From home, pinch the screen. 2. Tap Home screen settings to customize: • Home screen layout: Set your device to have a Home and Apps screen, or only a Home screen where all apps are located. • Home screen grid : Choose a dimension option to determine how icons are arranged on the Home screen. The numbers indicate how many icons can be placed horizontally by how many icons can be placed vertically. • Apps screen grid : Choose a dimension option to determine how icons are arranged on the Apps screen. The numbers indicate how many icons can be placed horizontally by how many icons can be placed vertically. • Apps button : Add an apps button to the Home screen for easy to access to the Apps screen. • Hide apps: Select apps to hide, tap Apply. • Hello Bixby settings : Configure Hello Bixby features. Learn About Your Device
Learn About Your Device29 Add Shortcuts to the Home Screen You can add shortcuts for quick access to favorite apps from the home screen. To add a shortcut: 1. From home, swipe up to access Apps. 2. Touch and hold an app shortcut to open the options menu. 3. Tap Add shortcut to home. Add Widgets to the Home Screen You can add widgets to your phone’s home screen. Widgets are simple application extensions that run on your phone’s home screen. Unlike a shortcut, the Widget works like as an onscreen application. 1. From home, touch and hold an empty space, and then tap Widgets. 2. Touch and hold a widget icon to select it. 3. Drag the icon to an empty location on the home screen.
Learn About Your Device30 Add Folders to the Home Screen You can group home screen shortcuts into folders for convenient access. 1. From home, touch and hold an app shortcut and drag it on top of another app shortcut until a highlighted box appears. 2. Release the app shortcut to create the folder. • Enter folder name: Enter a name for the folder. • Palette: Change the color. • Add apps : Place more apps in the folder. Tap apps to select them, and then tap Add. 3. Tap anywhere outside of the folder to close it. • To add more apps, touch and hold an app shortcut and drag it to the folder. Change Folder Names Once you have added folders, you can change the name easily from the folder display. 1. From home, tap the folder to open it, and then tap the folder name. 2. Type a new name. 3. Tap anywhere outside of the folder to close it. Change the Folder Color You can change the color of a folder. 1. From home, tap the folder to open it. 2. Tap Palette and select a color. 3. Tap anywhere outside of the folder to close it.
Learn About Your Device31 Capture Screenshots Capture an image of your screen. It will automatically create a Screenshots folder in the Gallery app. ►Press and hold the Power key and Volume down key at the same time to capture a screenshot of the current screen.
Learn About Your Device32 Status Bar The status bar at the top of the home screen provides phone and service status information on the right side and notification alerts on the left. To view the notification panel or access the quick settings menu, pull down the status bar from the top of the screen. Main Status Icons Bluetooth® is active. GPS is active. Wi-Fi is active. Download of a file or app is in progress. Mute mode is enabled. Main Status Icons Vibrate mode is enabled. Cellular network signal strength is displayed. Roaming network signal strength is displayed. The device is connected to a 3G wireless network. The device is connected to a 4G LTE™ wireless network. Airplane mode is active. Battery is charging. Battery is fully charged. Connected as a mobile hotspot.
Learn About Your Device33 Main Notification Icons A call has been missed. A call is on hold. New voicemail message has been received. New email has arrived. New Gmail has arrived. New text or MMS message. A calendar event is approaching. A USB connection is active. An alarm has been set. Main Notification Icons A new Emergency alert has arrived. An app update is available from the Google Play store. An app update was successful. File is being uploaded or sent. Download of a file or app is in progress. View additional notifications. Note: Additional notification icons may appear. All notifications may be accessed through the notification panel.