Personalize your phone
Learn how to personalize the start screen, and how to change ringtones.
Personalize the start screen
Make your start screen yours – choose your background photo, pin your favorite apps and
much more to the start screen, or change the tile size and layout as you like. To get the most
out of the space on the start screen, group apps into folders.
Add a background photo
1. Swipe down from the top of the screen, and tap All settings > Personalization >
Start.
2. Switch Background to My pictures, and tap Browse.
3. Tap a photo, crop it as you like, and tap .
4. Switch Choose style to Tile picture or Full screen picture.
Tip: If you changed the style setting to Full screen picture, you can change the
transparency of the tiles. Just drag the Tile transparency slider.
Change the tile color
Swipe down from the top of the screen, and tap All settings > Personalization > Colors
and a color.
Tip: If you have a Microsoft account on your phone, you can share your color scheme,
background, and other settings to all your Windows devices. Swipe down from the top
of the screen, tap All settings > Accounts > Sync your settings, and switch Sync
settings to On . Then switch Theme to On .
Move a tile
Tap and hold the tile, drag and drop it to the new location, and tap the screen.
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