Samsung Galaxy S8: How to Fix Cannot Find Home Button on Standby Screen in Android 7.0 Nougat

By default, your Samsung Galaxy S8 will display the on-screen home button when the screen turns off for more convenient access. Since this button is always active, if you cannot find this button on the standby screen, you can still double tap or hard press the area where this button should be on the standby screen to easily turn on or unlock the screen if the unlock with home button feature is enabled. However, if you prefer to do those actions using the on-screen home button, you can set your phone to display this button on the standby screen by selecting the home button option on the always on display feature.


How to display the on-screen home button when the screen turns off?
You can do so by using the following steps:

1. When the screen is on and unlocked, swipe down the top of the screen to open up the notification panel and then tap to go to the settings menu.
   
   
2. Scroll down the screen to find Lock screen and security and then tap it.
   
   
3. Tap Always on display.
   
   
4. If the always on display feature is off, tap the ON/OFF switch to turn it on. The switch turns when it's enabled.
   
   
5. Tap Content to show and then select either Home button and clock or information or Home button only.
   
   
   As a note, if you select the Home button and clock or information option, you can then select which clock or information style you want to show on the standby screen.
   
6. Now, press the Power key to turn off the screen and go to the standby screen to see the on-screen home button.
   
   

Samsung Galaxy S8: How to Adjust Home Button Pressure Sensitivity in Android 7.0 Nougat

The on-screen home button in your Samsung Galaxy S8 is pressure sensitive. When the unlock with home button feature is enabled, you can easily unlock the screen by hard pressing your finger on the home button when the screen is off. When needed, you can adjust this button pressure sensitivity to be more or less sensitive if it reacts too sensitive or too slow for you.


How to adjust the pressure sensitivity level of the home button?
You can do so by using the following steps:

1. On any screen, swipe down the top of the screen to open up the notification panel and then tap to go to the settings menu.
   
   
2. Tap Display.
   
   
3. Scroll down the screen to find Navigation bar and then tap it.
   
   
4. Slide the bar in the Home button sensitivity section to the left for a more sensitive home button or to the right for a less sensitive home button. As a note, if you set the pressure sensitivity level to a less sensitive, you'll need to press the on-screen home button harder to have your phone recognises a hard press on this button.
   
   
5. The amount of pressure needed to hard press the home button has been adjusted.

Samsung Galaxy S8: How to Switch Navigation Buttons Position in Android 7.0 Nougat

The navigation buttons in Samsung Galaxy S8 is now be the on-screen buttons and can be customised to suit your need, one of which is now you can swap the recents and back buttons position on the navigation bar. By default, the recents button is on the left side of the home button and the back button is on the right side. Swapping those two buttons position will help you use your Samsung Galaxy S8 with more easily especially if you have just come from or often switch with other phones that have different navigation buttons position.

How to switch the position of the navigation buttons?
As the example, we'll change the navigation buttons position from the default Recents-Home-Back to Back-Home-Recents by using the following steps:

1. On any screen, swipe down the top of the screen to open up the notification panel and then tap to go to the settings menu.
   
   
2. Tap Display.
   
   
3. Scroll down the screen to find Navigation bar and then tap it.
   
   
4. Tap Button layout and then select Back-Home-Recents.
   
   
5. The navigation buttons position has been changed.