Sony Xperia Tablet Z SGP311 User Manual page 18

Rearranging your Home screen
Customise the appearance of your Home screen and change the features that you
can access from it. Change the screen background, move items around, create
folders, and add shortcuts and widgets.
Customisation options
When you touch and hold an empty area of your Home screen, the following
customisation options appear:
Add widgets to your Home screen.
Add applications and shortcuts.
Set a wallpaper for your Home screen.
Set a background theme.
To view customisation options from the Home screen
• Touch and hold an empty area on your Home screen and customisation
options appear on the screen.
To add a shortcut to your Home screen
1 Touch and hold an empty area on your Home screen.
2 In the customisation menu, tap Apps.
3 Scroll through the list of applications and select an application. The selected
application gets added to the Home screen.
In step 3, alternatively, you can tap Shortcuts and then select an application from the list
available. If you use this method to add shortcuts, some of the applications available allow
you to add specific functionality to the shortcut.
To move an item on the Home screen
• Touch and hold the item until it magnifies, then drag the item to the new
location.
To delete an item from the Home screen
• Touch and hold an item until it magnifies, then drag the item to .
To create a folder on the Home screen
• Touch and hold an application icon or a shortcut until it magnifies, then drag
and drop it on top of another application icon or shortcut.
To add items to a folder on the Home screen
• Touch and hold an item until it magnifies, then drag the item to the folder.
To rename a folder on the Home screen
1 Tap the folder to open it.
2 Tap the folder's title bar to show the Folder name field.
3 Enter the new folder name and tap Done.
Changing the background of your Home screen
Adapt the Home screen to your own style using wallpapers and different themes.
To change your Home screen wallpaper
1 Touch and hold an empty area on your Home screen.
2 Tap Wallpapers and select an option.
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