Navigate Your Fire Phone; Left And Right Panels - Amazon Fire User Manual

Navigate Your Fire Phone

Fire phone has three primary screens: a center screen, a left panel, and a right panel.
Home Screen: Carousel View or App Grid View
Access items from the Home screen in carousel view or app grid view.
• In carousel view:
Navigate the carousel: Swipe your finger left or right across the screen to move through the
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carousel. Your most recently accessed items appear first.
Preview items: Below most items in the carousel, you will find a preview of relevant items, such as
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your most recent text messages, e-mails, or photos under the Messaging, Email, and Photos apps,
recommendations related to a Kindle book, or your most recently accessed settings.
• Open an item: Tap an item in the carousel or one of the preview items to go directly to it.
Switch to the app grid: Press the Home button. You can also swipe up from the four app icons at
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the bottom of the screen.
In app grid view:
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• Navigate the app grid: If they span multiple screens, swipe up and down to view all of your apps.
Toggle the Cloud / Device switch in the upper left to view the apps you have in the Cloud available
to download to your device, and the apps you already have downloaded to your device.
• Open an item: Tap an app to open it.
Organize your apps: Press and drag an app to move it around the screen and reorganize your
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apps.
• Switch to the carousel: Swipe down to navigate back up to the carousel.

Left and Right Panels

On the Home screen and in many apps, you can access the left panel for menus and navigation, and/or
the right panel for actions or contextual information relevant to what you're doing. For example, when
listening to music, access the right panel to view lyrics with X-Ray for Music. When sending a text
message, access the right panel to quickly attach a photo.
1. To launch the left panel, swipe in from the left edge of the screen. To close it, swipe out from the center
to the left.
2. To launch the right panel, swipe in from the right edge of the screen. To close it, swipe out from the
center to the right.
Note: You can also access the left and right panels using a one-handed shortcut called "tilting". To learn more, go to
One-Handed Shortcuts on page 10.
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