Huawei How to Personalize Home Screen
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Magazine
If this function is activated on the Huawei device, you will see a new picture on your lock screen as soon as you turn on your display, almost like turning pages in a magazine. The pictures are actualized over the Wi-Fi. You can choose the category of pictures you will see. there are for example Leica-pictures, stars, sport or lifestyle.




- Open the settings
- Tap on Home screen & wallpaper
- Tap on Magazine Unlock
- Activate or deactivate Magazine Unlock
Home screen style
You can choose the style of your Huawei home screen, as by default all apps are shown. If you want to use a so called app drawer and want to see all apps by wiping the display from top to bottom instead, you can activate this here.




- Open the settings
- Tap on Home screen & wallpaper
- Tap on Home screen style
- Choose Standard or Drawer
Home screen layout
We can change the home screen layout on the Huawei device and, instead of the usual displayed 4x6 apps, show app symbols as a 5x5 or 5x6 layout.
Note: This setting depends on the Huawei model we have.





- Open the settings
- Tap on Home screen & wallpaper
- Tap on Home screen settings
- Tap on Layout
- Choose an option
Lock layout
If you found the perfect layout for your Huawei device home screen, you can fix all the apps and widgets in place by activating this option. You can only change the layout by deactivating the option.




- Open the settings
- Tap on Home screen & wallpaper
- Tap on Home screen settings
- Activate or deactivate Lock layout
Home screen loop
If this option is activated, your home screen will loop whenever you try to swipe to the next page, only showing the front page.





- Open the settings
- Tap on Home screen & wallpaper
- Tap on Home screen settings
- Activate or deactivate Home screen loop
- Confirm with Enable
Google Feed
On the left side of your Huawei device's home screen, we will find Google feeds with news, like videos or the latest trends. This Google service can be enabled or disabled anytime.




- Open the settings
- Tap on Home screen & wallpaper
- Tap on Home screen settings
- Activate or deactivate Google feed
Advanced visual effects
While navigating the menu on the Huawei smartphone, we often see that menu options are shown and hidden with effects, or apps are shown animated. In order to improve the performance of the Huawei device, we can disable these animations or enhanced optical effects.




- Open the settings
- Tap on Accessibility features
- Tap on Accessibility
- Activate or deactivate Advanced visual effects
Add home screen
To customize the Huawei smartphone's home screen according to personal preferences or usage needs, we can split or arrange the app shortcuts on different home screen pages by simply tapping and
holding an app icon and dragging it to the edge of the screen.
Note: To remove a home screen, all icons must be moved. The empty page will be removed automatically.



- Tap and hold an app
- Drag the app to the edge of the screen
- Release the app to position it
Default home screen
By default, the first page is the default home screen on the Huawei smartphone.
The default home screen can be moved and rearranged, so for example, you can move it to the third position to have a central starting point after adding five home screens.
Note: The default home screen can be recognized by the Home icon at the top of the home screen settings.




- Tap and hold an empty space on home screen
- Tap and hold a home screen
- Drag the home screen to rearrange it
- Release the home screen to position it
Wipe effects
Browsing the home screens by swiping, they are wiped away to the left and right by default. If we want to set a different animation of this wiping effect, we have the following transition settings or available options on the Huawei smartphone:
- Standard
- Perspective
- Squeeze
- Box
- Flip over
- Rotate
- Page
- Windmill




- Tap and hold an empty space on home screen
- Tap on Transitions
- Swipe to browse the transitions
- Choose a transition or wipe effect