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Huawei: Move the Default Home Screen Position

On a Huawei phone, the first home screen page is fixed as the default one, even after you add several more screens. If you want a different page, like the third one, to open first when you press the home button or add new app icons, you have to reposition that page manually instead of just rearranging widgets on it. This trips up a lot of people who build a five-screen layout and then wonder why apps keep landing on the wrong page.

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VersionAndroid 10 · EMUI

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Move the Default Home Screen Position auf Huawei

On Huawei phones running EMUI, the default home screen is not a separate setting hidden in a menu. It is simply the page that currently sits in the first slot of your home screen layout. Whichever page holds that position becomes the one that opens when you tap the home button or when new apps get installed and placed automatically.

This matters once you start adding multiple home screens. If you have built a layout with five pages and want a specific one, for example a central page with your most-used apps, to act as the starting point, you cannot just tell the system which page is default. Instead, you drag that page into the first slot of the screen order.

To do this, use the following path: Tap and hold an empty space on home screenTap and hold a home screenDrag the home screen to rearrange itRelease the home screen to position it. This opens the home screen overview, where all pages appear as thumbnails you can reorder by dragging.

Moving a page to the first position does not delete any apps or widgets on it. Everything on that page stays exactly where it was, only its position in the sequence changes. If you later add or remove a home screen, double-check the order again, since inserting a new page can shift which one ends up first.

Frequently asked questions

No. Dragging a page to a new position in the Tap and hold a home screen overview only changes its order. Apps, folders, and widgets on that page stay untouched.