HTC Edge Launcher Gets New Toggles, Lets You Change Icon Order with New Update

Nobody thought squeezing a phone would get a thing. But it surely has and post-obit HTC, Google too enabled this feature in the Pixel 2 phones. At present HTC is on a mission to evidence that Google'south clasp is but a i-pull a fast one on pony (hey, we already knew that), past adding a whole lot of functionality to the Edge Launcher app.

With the update, users can modify the order of the icons, and it also adds new quick settings options for battery saver mode, auto-rotate and mobile hotspot to the existing ones.

Some other great new addition is the power to use the launcher from the lockscreen, which is only useful if you want to check the condition of a setting or glance at your apps. Unfortunately to activate a setting or toggle or to open your apps, yous would still need to unlock information technology with your fingerprint or with the Pin.

By itself the final version of Edge Launcher itself was quite robust. It debuted in the HTC U11 and so took on a more elaborate form for the U11+ late in 2017. It can be prepare upwards to do a diverseness of things, such equally bringing upward the smart banana, snapping a photo quickly, or opening your about-used apps.

Users tin gear up it upwards to run two dissimilar virtual assistants as well – such as Google Banana or Cortana or Amazon Alexa – since short squeezes and long ones can trigger private action. In theory, this sounds gimmicky, simply every bit nosotros noted in the users have noted, it tin can be incredibly helpful.