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Tiles

Tiles are one of the popular features in Quikshort. It let’s you create shortcuts as custom tiles in Android’s quick settings panel.

Creating tiles follows same process for all android devices but devices which are running Android 13 or higher will have one advantage. From Android 13, there is a support for automatically adding a tile to quick settings, so users who are running Android 13 or higher don’t need to follow manual process for adding a tile to quick settings.

Types of Quikshort Tiles

There are two types of tiles in Quikshort.

Active Tiles

Tiles which are enabled and ready to be added or already added in quick settings.

There can be up to 15 tiles created. Quikshort Pro allows 32 active tiles.

Inactive Tiles

Tiles which are disabled and cannot be added in quick settings. Inactive tiles can be any number.

Mostly used to save a tile when active tiles are full, so that can be enabled later when there’s space available.

If you are interested in tiles customization, you can find its documentation here.

Steps to Manually add a Tile to Quick Settings

After creating an active tile, follow the below steps to manually add a tile to quick settings

  1. Each active tile will have a name by default in sequence like Tile1, Tile2, Tile3 and so on. You will see it at the bottom of every tile in tiles screen. Remember this default name of the active tile that you want to add.
  2. Expand quick settings panel, you will see a pen/edit icon.
  3. Once you click on that pen/edit button, you will see a list of tiles which are available to add. Find the tile with name which you previously remembered.
  4. Hold and drag that tile into your quick settings panel and click save/back.
  5. That’s it, it will update its label and icon once you added it. You can now click on that tile to launch it.