Home & Lock screen

Home screen

  • Select Prevent users from changing the home screen and lock screen wallpaper to ensure that users can't alter this setting.
  • Home screen wallpaper — Upload a file that you want to use as the home screen wallpaper. Supported formats include:
    • .gif
    • .jpg
    • .jpeg
    • .pjpeg
    • .png
    • .bmp
    • .svg
    • .tiff
  • Default Lock screen wallpaper — Upload a file that you want to use as the home screen wallpaper. Supported formats include:
    • .gif
    • .jpg
    • .jpeg
    • .pjpeg
    • .png
    • .bmp
    • .svg
    • .tiff
  • Clear all items from the Home screen — Remove all current app icons and widgets from the home screen.

Device

  • Device type — Select Phone, Tablet, or allow Knox Customization Configurator to auto-detect the device type and grid layout of the apps on the home screens.
  • Select grid — Display phone app icons in a 4 x 4, 4 x 5, or 5 x 5 grid and tablet app icons in a 6x5, 6x6, 8x4, 8x6 grid. If the device doesn’t support the grid dimensions that you’ve specified, this setting may create an error.
  • Position of the first screen — This is the screen that's displayed when the user presses the home key.
    • SCREEN_0 — This is usually set as the first device screen.
    • SCREEN_1 — On some devices, SCREEN_0 is reserved for default news widgets such as Daily Brief or My Magazine. In this case, set SCREEN_1 as the position of the first screen.
  • Customize favorite applications — Add a row of pinned icons at the bottom of all the screens.

Device screen preview

On the device simulator screens, click the + icon to add an app icon or content shortcut to that position.

NOTE — The Applications, Content, and Bookmark fields only display the files you've selected under the Applications & content pane. If you create a Folder, the Applications, Content, and Bookmark fields also only display the files that you've selected under the Applications & content pane.

Click the + symbol next to existing screens to add more screens. Click Remove under the screens that you want to delete. You can't delete the default screen.

Lock screen

Hide widgets

Select the widgets that you want to hide on the lock screen:

  • Time
  • Date
  • Owner information
  • Notifications
  • Help text
  • Battery information
  • Shortcuts