Guide 14 of 33Build your Home

Use shortcuts, swipe actions and App Pairs

Give Home icons local actions and launch two apps together.

Video tutorial

A walkthrough is coming soon

This written guide is complete now. A focused video for this exact topic will be added here after recording.

Planned

Long-press an app on Home to see Android shortcuts, assign a swipe-up action, change its icon, hide it, open App info or remove it. The action belongs to that placed icon, so two copies of one app can behave differently.

Step by step

How to do it

  1. Long-press an app and try one of its Android-provided shortcuts.

  2. Choose a swipe-up action or app, then swipe up on that icon.

  3. Choose Create app pair and select a second personal-profile app.

  4. Tap the pair to ask Android to open both apps in split screen.

  5. Long-press the pair to swap sides, replace a member or open one side alone.