Place a star

Placing a star (an app, folder, or shortcut) puts it on a ring, the wheel of apps that blooms under your finger. You aim the spot first, then pick what goes there.

#Add and place it

1. Press and hold empty sky (your home screen) to bloom the ring.
2. Without lifting, slide onto the ✛ button. A new star lifts onto your finger.
3. Keep dragging. Move around the ring to set its angle, and in or out to choose its orbit (how far it sits from the center).
4. Lift. The add menu opens.
5. Choose a tab: "Apps", "Folder", "Widgets", "Shortcuts", "Direct", "Files", or "System".
6. Pick the item. It lands on the ring right where you lifted.

Where it lands. The star goes exactly where your finger left the screen. If you lift straight on ✛ without dragging, it lands at ✛'s spot, which is usually a new outer orbit. Orbits snap: near an orbit that already has stars, the new star joins it; otherwise it starts a fresh orbit at an even step.

Changed your mind? Close the add menu without picking anything. Nothing is added.

In list mode the ring is a list, so there is no spot to aim. The new star simply joins the list.

Not where you wanted? Move a star shows how to move it or take it off.

See also. Move a star · The ring dock (add / re-place / edit / remove) · Stars — apps, folders & rituals