What is HTC Themes?

Themes brings a quick and easy way for you to customize your phone with elements such as wallpapers, sounds, and icons.

You need to log in with your preferred account to download themes, icons, fonts, and more from the Themes store.

Note: Themes is a part of the HTC Sense Home app. To get the latest features of Themes, make sure you've downloaded the newest version of HTC Sense Home.

Downloading themes or individual elements

Find and download themes and elements that make it easy for you to personalize your phone.

1. Press and hold on an empty space on your Home screen.
2. Tap Theme.
3. If it's your first time to use Themes, tap Get Started, and then sign in with your preferred account.
4. On the Recommended screen, swipe up and down to see different themes and theme elements, and tap next to each category to browse recommended items.
5. Tap a thumbnail to see the details screen.
6. Tap Download.

Tip: If you don't want to download the theme or any element right away, you can tap to bookmark it first.

To apply the theme after it has finished downloading, tap Apply. If your chosen theme includes sounds, your ringtone, notification sound, and alert sound will also change.

Creating your own theme

You can create and customize your own theme and even share it for others to download.

1. Press and hold on an empty space on your Home screen.
2. Tap Theme.
3. Tap > Change wallpaper to set the main wallpaper for your theme.
4. Select an image from your phone or take a photo with Camera.
5. Move or enlarge the crop box to the area of the image you want to include.
6. Crop and save the image.
7. Tap Next.
8. Swipe up or down to select a style for your theme.
9. Tap Edit to customize the style elements such as colors and icons.

   Or tap Next if you don't want to customize your theme.

10. After you've finished customizing your theme, tap Preview to see what your theme will look like.
11. Tap Finish, name your theme, and then tap OK to save your theme.

    To apply the theme after saving it, make sure you select the Apply this theme now option.

Finding your themes

Themes you've downloaded, bookmarked, or created can be found in your theme collection.

1. Press and hold on an empty space on your Home screen.
2. Tap Theme.
3. Tap > My themes.

Editing your theme

After creating and applying a theme, you can mix and match parts from other themes such as sounds, icons, wallpapers.

Important: To mix and match themes, you need to first download theme elements from the Themes store.

1. Press and hold on an empty space on your Home screen.
2. Tap Theme.
3. Tap > Edit current theme.
4. Tap any of the theme elements you want to change. If the theme element list is empty, tap beside the theme element name, and then choose one of the collections to select from.
5. Do one of the following:
   • Tap an item in the theme element list to apply the change directly.
   • Tap Download to get the content if necessary, and then tap Apply to apply the change to your current theme.
6. Press until you see the Edit current theme screen. Continue making changes until you're satisfied with the result.
7. Tap Save copy to save your new theme, or if you're editing a theme that you copied tap Save to save the changes.

Deleting a theme

You can delete a theme if you no longer want to keep it on your phone.

1. Press and hold on an empty space on your Home screen.
2. Tap Theme.
3. Tap > My themes or My designs.
4. Find and tap an item to delete.
5. Tap > Remove.

Note: If the item is currently applied, it will still be applied to your phone until another theme is applied.

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