9 most useful features of Nova Launcher Prime you must know

Nova launcher Prime is a very popular and one of the best launcher for Android smartphones. Nova Launcher prime is having many wonderful features and tweaks to customize your android phone look and feel.

Nova Launcher is having gesture to open and close app drawer, status bar etc. Google now page can be integrated on home screen. Notification badges can be assigned to app icons to show their notifications count as available on Samsung and Huawei phones launchers.

In this post we will see 9 most useful features of Nova Launcher Prime that your try. To apply these features, you have to go on nova settings. To reach nova settings just long press on empty space on your any home screen, and tap over gear icon to reach nova settings.

1.  Nova Launcher Prime Gestures and input feature

Nova launcher is having one of the most useful features of its gestures and input control for various navigation. You use gestures e.g. swipe up on home screen to open app drawer, swipe down to expand notifications by scroll down notification bar.

Pinch in by two fingers to show Nova settings and wallpaper options, pinch out to show recent apps.

There are many gestures available like double tap, two finger swipe, two finger rotation to assign different task as per your desire and requirement.

2. Hiding of apps using Nova launcher app drawer settings

You can hide some apps to show on app drawer using settings, just go to app drawer > Hide apps under apps tab. Select the app that you want to hide in app drawer. It will not show up in app drawer, but can be found by typing app name in search box.

To unhide the app again follow the above steps and unchecked the app to show it gain in app drawer.

3. Night mode

You can use the dark theme and light theme as per your taste. There is also option to select custom time to turn on night theme. For example, your can set the time as between 6 pm to 6 am for night theme. So that less stress on your eyes in night time.

4. Google now page integration

Nova launcher Prime having feature of integration of Google now page in the launcher home screen. Further you can also reach Google now page any time by just swiping edge of home screen from left to right side.

To enable Google Now page you have to download Nova Google Companion app from their website. After downloading apk file just install it by giving access to install from external sources just once.

When Google Now Companions app installed, you can set Google Discover as the fist launcher page by swiping left to right side on home screen.

5. Sesame Shortcuts

Sesame short feature allow you to search contacts, messages, apps and many more in launcher search bar. To enable sesame shortcut, you have to download the Sesame Shortcut app from play store. After installing app Tap over Sesame Shortcuts last option in the list and configure the setup.

It will ask you some permission like notifications access, usage access, draw over the other apps and others. Some permission are required like calling, messaging to call directly from the search results.

6. Notification badges

Nova launcher prime having notification badges feature, by which you can see the notifications number on the app icons itself. To enable this feature, you have to download and install TeslaUnread app. This app is now not available on playstore therefore you have to download this from Teslacoil website.

After installing TeslaUnread, check the boxes for the apps for which you want to enable notification badges. You can also customize these badges e.g. their size, position, color etc.

View our previous post for the same.

7. Nova launcher Prime Lab features

Nova launcher also having lab features in settings. You can enable weather in Google search bar on home screen. You can also bypass system theme to ignore system theme and to use forcefully app’s original icons.

8.  Nova launcher Activities Shortcut feature

Nova launcher having this unique feature to create a shortcut for any activity, app or settings on home screen. For example, you can put the battery status, notification log, default apps, display settings shortcuts for easy access.

To enable activity shortcut, long press on any empty space over home screen, tap over widget, now hold and drag Activities shortcut icon over any home screen. This will ask you now which app or settings activity you want to create on home screen.

For example, select settings by scrolling down, now select display activity. Place this shortcut over the screen. When ever you want to access display settings just use this shortcut to see all display settings.

9. Backup and restore feature

You can take backup and restore your customized nova launcher settings easily. You can also share this backup file to various platforms like internal storage, google drive email, WhatsApp etc.

Conclusion

Hope you get to know some very useful feature of Nova launcher Prime that make it a prime launcher for android phones.