Home screen

The Home screen is the starting point for using your device. It's similar to the desktop on a computer screen. The number of Home screen panes is represented by a series of dots at the lower part of the Home screen. The highlighted dot shows the pane that is currently displayed.

Home screen overview

Panes extension on Homescreen

1	Welcome to Xperia widget — Tap to open the widget and select a task such as copying content from your old device or setting up Xperia services
2	Dots — Represents the number of Home screen panes

To go to the Home screen

Press .

To browse the Home screen

Browsing the Home screen

Home screen panes

You can delete panes or add new ones to your Home screen (up to a maximum of twenty panes).

Home screen panes

To set a pane as the main Home screen pane

Touch and hold an empty area on your Home screen until the device vibrates.
Flick left or right to browse to the pane that you want to set as your main Home screen pane, then tap .

When Google Feed is enabled, the left-most pane is reserved for this service and the main Home screen pane cannot be changed. For more information, see Google Feed.

To add a pane to your Home screen

Touch and hold an empty area on your Home screen until the device vibrates.
To browse the panes, flick all the way to the right or left, then tap .

When Google Feed is enabled, the left-most pane is reserved for this service and additional panes cannot be added to the left. For more information, see Google Feed.

To delete a pane from your Home screen

Touch and hold an empty area on your Home screen until the device vibrates.
Flick left or right to browse to the pane that you want to delete, then tap on the top right corner of the pane.

Home screen settings

To disable or uninstall an application from the Home screen

Disabling a pre-installed app deletes all data, but the app can be enabled again from Settings > Apps . Only downloaded apps can be fully uninstalled.

Touch and hold the application you want to disable or uninstall.
All applications that can be disabled or uninstalled are indicated by .
Tap the relevant application, then tap Disable if the app came pre-installed on your device or OK if the app was downloaded and you would like to uninstall it.