Personalizing your Home screen
Stamp your own personality on your Home screen. Select an attractive design as your wallpaper, add shortcuts for quick access to your favorite apps, and add widgets for a quick review of important info. You can also add more pages so you can add and quickly access or view more apps or widgets on your Home screen.
App shortcuts
App shortcuts make it easier to quickly-access your often-used or favorite apps from your Home screen. You can add, remove, or group your apps into one folder.
Adding app shortcuts
Add shortcuts to quickly access your often-used apps right from your Home screen.
1. Tap and hold an empty area on your Home screen and select Apps & Widgets .
2. From the Apps list, tap and hold an app, then drag it to an empty area on your Home screen.
Removing app shortcuts
From your Home screen, tap and hold an app, then drag it to Remove on top of your screen.
The app that you’ve removed from your Home screen will remain in the Apps screen.
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Grouping your app shortcuts in a folder
Create folders to organize your app shortcuts on your Home screen.
1. On your Home screen, tap and drag an app onto another app and a folder will appear.
2. Tap the new folder and tap Unnamed Folder to assign a name to this folder.
Widgets
You can put widgets, which are small dynamic apps, on your Home screen. Widgets provide you with quick-views of the weather forecast, calendar events information, battery status, and more.
Adding widgets
To add a widget:
1. Tap and hold an empty area on your Home screen and select Apps & Widgets .
2. From the Widgets screen, tap and hold a widget, then drag it to an empty area on your Home screen.
Removing widgets
From your Home screen, tap and hold a widget, then drag it to Remove on top of your screen.
NOTE: You can also tap on your Home screen to view Apps and Widgets.
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Wallpapers
Let your apps, icons, and other Zen elements sit on an attractively designed wallpaper. You may add a translucent background tint to your wallpaper for readability and clarity. You can also select an animated wallpaper to make your screen come alive.
Move the slider to adjust the transparency of the wallpaper
Tap to apply a background tint
Tap to select wallpaper
Tap to select an image from your saved photos or images
Tap to select the background tint
Applying wallpaper and background tint
To apply wallpaper and background tint:
1. Tap and hold an empty area on your Home screen and select Wallpapers .
2. Select where you want your wallpaper: on your Home screen , Lock screen , or Home and Lock screen . If you do not want to add a background tint to your wallpaper, skip to step 5.
3. Tick , then adjust the transparency level.
4. Tap then select a color.
5. Select a wallpaper, then tap Apply .
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Applying an animated wallpaper
To apply an animated wallpaper:
1. Tap and hold an empty area on your Home screen and select Wallpapers .
2. Select where you want your wallpaper: on your Home screen , or Home Screen and Lock screen .
3. Select an animated wallpaper, then tap Apply .
NOTE: You can also set up your wallpaper settings from > Settings > Display .
Extended Home screen
Extending your Home screen
You can add more pages to extend your Home screen and put more app shortcuts and widgets on it.
1. Tap and hold an empty area on your Home screen and select Edit pages .
2. Tap to a add a new page. If you wish to delete an extended Home screen, select then drag and drop it into .
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Setting up the date and time
By default, the date and time displayed on your Home screen automatically syncs when you are connected to the internet.
To change the date and time settings:
1. Launch the Settings screen by doing any of the following:
• Launch Quick settings then tap .
• Tap > Settings .
2. Scroll down the Settings screen and select Date & time .
3. Uncheck .
4. Select the time zone and manually set the date and time.
5. You can opt to use the 24-hour format, if you prefer.
6. Select the date format that you want to display.
NOTE:
See also Clock .
Setting up your ringtone and alert sounds
Set up the sound for your notifications such as messages, emails, and event alerts. You can also choose to enable or disable the touch sounds or screen lock sound.
To set up the sound settings:
1. Launch the Settings screen by doing any of the following:
• Launch Quick settings then tap .
• Tap > Settings .
2. Scroll down the Settings screen and select Sound & notification .
3. Set up your preferred sound settings.
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Quick settings
The Quick settings panel provides a one-tap access to some of the wireless features and settings of your ASUS Tablet. Each of these features are represented by a button.
To launch the Quick settings panel, swipe down with two fingers from the top of your ASUS Tablet.
NOTE: A blue button indicates that the feature is currently enabled while a gray button indicates a disabled feature. The green buttons refer to individual utilities that you can quickly access via the Quick
Settings Notification Panel.
Tap on this area to switch to Quick settings panel
Tap to edit Quick settings
Tap to open Settings
Tap to switch user account
Slide left or right to adjust the screen’s brightness
Tap these buttons to quick-launch these utilities
Tap these buttons to enable or disable their functions
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Adding or removing buttons
To add or remove existing buttons from the ASUS Quick settings notification panel:
1. Launch Quick settings then tap .
2. Tap the box beside the feature to add or remove it from the ASUS Quick settings notification panel.
NOTE: A checked box indicates that the feature's button is accessible via the ASUS Quick settings notification panel while an unchecked box means the opposite.
3. Tap to go back and view the current ASUS Quick settings notification panel.
System notifications
From System notifications, you can see the latest updates done and system changes made on your
ASUS Tablet. Most of these changes are data and system-related.
To launch the System notifications panel, swipe down with two fingers from the top of your ASUS
Tablet.
Tap to open Settings
Tap to switch user account
Tap this to delete all of the listed notifications
Swipe the notification to the left or right to remove it from the list
Tap on the notification to view its details
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