First-run checklist

Zenith is running and it's your home screen. Here are the five things worth doing on day one. None takes long, and every one is optional — do them in any order, or skip what you don't want.

1. Make Zenith your home. If you haven't already, set it as your default launcher so the Home button brings you back to the sky — your home screen. You can undo this anytime. See Set Zenith as your default launcher.
2. Learn the one gesture. Press and hold the empty sky until a ring — a wheel of your apps — blooms under your finger, then slide onto an app and lift to open it. This is how you launch everything. See Zenith in 5 minutes — your first sky.
3. Get some apps onto your sky. During the welcome, the last step can hand you a ready-made starter ring so you're not staring at a bare sky. Started with the bare sky instead? Add your own apps one at a time. See Zenith in 5 minutes — your first sky.
4. Turn on the extras you want. The welcome offers three optional permissions, each skippable: comets — your notifications, drifting across the sky to catch; zenith actions — a helper that lets gestures do system things like lock the screen, open recents, or pull down the notification shade; and weather & your real sky — local weather, plus the real night sky as a live background (Gold). Turn on only the ones you'll use.
5. Know where settings live. Press and hold the lower-right corner of the sky to open settings. Zenith points this out the first time your sky appears, along with drawing a circle to see all your apps.

That's a solid first day. Explore the rest at your own pace.

See also. Zenith in 5 minutes — your first sky · Verify your setup · The sky — your whole home screen