How to Use home screen in a Sentence

home screen

noun
  • Want to change the home screen bar?
    — PC Magazine, 7 Nov. 2025
  • Reopen the app from your home screen.
    — Staff Report, arkansasonline.com, 8 June 2026
  • Swiping up on the home screen brings up all the phone's apps.
    — PC Magazine, 30 Apr. 2025
  • The pass can be saved to the phone's home screen for easy access with a tap.
    — Elaine Rewolinski, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 20 Sep. 2021
  • Reopen the app from your app drawer or home screen.
    — Staff Report, arkansasonline.com, 8 June 2026
  • Swiping up to return to the home screen achieves the same goal.
    — Chris Smith, BGR, 1 Apr. 2021
  • Players can still pin their favorite games to the home screen.
    — Gieson Cacho, chicagotribune.com, 9 Nov. 2020
  • The home screen is the hottest battleground now.
    — Jennifer Maas, Variety, 6 May 2026
  • Open the official app from your phone's home screen.
    — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 27 May 2026
  • Simply tap-and-hold, then remove the app from your home screen.
    — WIRED, 29 Oct. 2023
  • Note that the apps on the left of the taskbar are the same as those in the dock on the home screen.
    — David Nield, Popular Science, 18 Oct. 2023
  • Try putting one of these apps on your home screen to take your browsing to the next level.
    — Josie Colt, WIRED, 6 Apr. 2018
  • This is the home screen, which tells me almost nothing about my goal progress for the day.
    — Corey Gaskin, Ars Technica, 30 Apr. 2022
  • For years, the iPhone home screen has been a grid of app icons that go on for pages and pages.
    — Julian Chokkattu, Wired, 22 June 2020
  • Just stick it to your home screen, press the widget, and hold your phone up to the speaker.
    — Kat Bein, Billboard, 28 Aug. 2017
  • One thing that isn’t changing is the large ad on the right side of the Roku home screen.
    — Michael Kan, PC Magazine, 27 May 2026
  • For example, the home screen consists of rows of books.
    — PC Magazine, 7 Nov. 2025
  • These are nothing like the widgets you’re used to seeing on the home screen.
    — Jacob Siegal, BGR, 10 June 2022
  • Remove an app from your phone’s home screen or delete it entirely.
    — Karen Garcia, Los Angeles Times, 21 Feb. 2026
  • For iPhone users, swipe from the bottom to the middle of your home screen.
    — Toby Grey, BGR, 29 Aug. 2022
  • However, some users are perturbed by the new home screen.
    — Scharon Harding, ArsTechnica, 27 May 2026
  • To view it on your e-reader, tap the icon that shows up on the home screen and in your library.
    — David Nield, Popular Science, 24 Dec. 2020
  • The theme changes colors of the phone's menus and home screen, but only some apps support it.
    — Jordan Valinsky, CNN, 8 Oct. 2019
  • Expand Your Grids Want to add more space to your home screen?
    — Julian Chokkattu, WIRED, 25 Feb. 2023
  • Press and hold on a blank part of a home screen, and select Themes to see your options.
    — David Nield, Popular Science, 27 Sep. 2023
  • The first is home screen widgets for the Google Fit mobile app.
    — Nick Statt, The Verge, 11 Dec. 2018
  • This is great for tablets, but phones don't have a way to launch split-screen mode from the home screen or the app drawer.
    — Ron Amadeo, Ars Technica, 31 Aug. 2022
  • While the #1 and #3 are packed with software features, the home screen is very busy.
    — James Morris, Forbes.com, 24 May 2025
  • Swiping from the home screen to the App Library feels smoother.
    — Nicole Nguyen, WSJ, 25 Oct. 2020
  • To add a widget to your iPhone’s home screen, find a blank spot and hold down your finger.
    — Tatum Hunter, Washington Post, 7 June 2023

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