Use Service Widgets

Add Service Widgets to Your Home Screen

You can add a service widget to the home screen in any of the following ways:

• Swipe up on an app icon to expand its service widget, and touch to add the service widget to the home screen.

• Swipe up on an app icon to expand its service widget, touch and hold down on the service widget, select More service widgets, and select your desired style. Then touch Add to home screen.

• Touch and hold down on an app icon, touch Service widgets, select your desired style, and touch Add to home screen.

If there is no space available on the current screen, the widget will be pinned to the next screen. If neither screen has any space, a new screen will be created for the service widget, to the right of the current screen.

You can also touch and hold down on a service widget on the More service widgets screen, and drag it to any blank area on the home screen. If you decide not to add the service widget to the home screen while dragging it, drag it to the cancel zone instead at the top of the screen.

 

• Service widgets cannot be pinned to folders.

• You won't be able to swipe up on an app icon to expand the service widget in Drawer mode.

Stack Service Widgets

Stack same-sized service widgets to save home screen space, and streamline your home screen.

1. To do so, touch and hold down on a service widget, drag it to another service widget of the same size, and release to stack the two widgets, once they have completely overlapped. Swipe up or down to cycle between widgets.

2. Swipe down further to expand the stack. From there, you can perform the following operations for any single service widget:

   • Pinning a service widget to the top: Touch a service widget, and pin it to the top of the stack.

   • Adjusting the position of a service widget: Touch and hold down on a service widget, and drag it to change its position.

   • Removing a service widget from the stack: Touch and hold down on a service widget, drag it to the left or right screen edge, wait for the service widget to be moved out of the stack, and drag it to any blank area on the home screen.

   • Deleting a service widget from the stack: Swipe left on a service widget.

You can also touch and hold down on a service widget stack to edit or remove the top service widget.

Combine Service Widgets

Combine service widgets of all sizes, and add frequently-used shortcuts to service widget combinations, to create shortcuts for common features.

1. To do so, touch and hold down on a service widget, drag it to another service widget of any size until they partially overlap, and release to complete the combination, once the back panel has been expanded.

2. Touch and hold down on a service widget combination. From there, you can:

   • Touch Edit combo to add or remove Service widgets or Shortcuts. Touch , , or to change the template size. Hold and drag to adjust the position of the added content.

   • Touch Rename to edit the name of the service widget combination.

   • Touch Remove combo to remove the service widget combination.

If there is an empty space in a service widget combination, you can drag another service widget to add it to the combination. If there is not enough space for the service widget combination, you can go to Edit combo, and change the template size to a larger one.

You can also touch and hold down on a service widget to edit or remove it.

Certain service widgets can't be edited.

Edit and Remove Service Widgets

Edit service widgets:

Touch and hold down on a service widget, and select Edit to set which information will display for the widget. For example, you can select cities for the Weather service widget, or select a time zone for the Clock service widget.

Remove service widgets:

Touch and hold down on a service widget, and select Remove to remove it from the home screen.

 

• If you uninstall certain apps, the corresponding service widgets will also be removed.

• Certain service widgets can't be edited.