To customize your Echo Show’s home screen, swipe down from the top of the screen and tap Settings.
Towards the top of the list, tap Home Screen.
There are two ways to customize your home screen here. First, let’s start with Background. Tap this and you’ll see three options for your home screen background:
We’ll demonstrate how to change your background to a single photo. Tap Alexa App Photo.
Your Echo Show will tell you that you need to add a photo with the Alexa app. Open the app on your phone. Tap the menu button in the top left corner and choose Settings.
Scroll down in the list to find your Echo Show and tap it.
Just below Home Screen Background, tap the big blue Choose A Photo button.
In the file picker that appears, choose a photo you want to use as a background.
On the next screen, you can move or zoom in the photo on just the region you want. The overlay will show you what part of the photo will be visible on the screen.
Now your photo will be set to the background on your Echo Show! If you’d like to switch back to the default or Prime Photos option, you can do that on the Echo Show itself. However, if you want to change it to another single background photo, you’ll need the Alexa app again.
Back on the Home Screen menu, there’s one more customization option called Home Card Preferences. Tap it.
The first option at the top of the screen is labeled Rotation. This determines how often the Echo Show rotates the cards—things like your events or news—on your home screen. By default, this is set to Rotate Continuously, which will keep changing which card is being displayed on your screen. If you choose Rotate Once, the cards will cycle through once whenever you go to the home screen, but otherwise you’ll need to swipe from one card to another to see new ones.
