iOS 18 enables you to personalize the look of your iPhone like by no means earlier than, including the flexibility to customise your house display screen. Which means any apps or widgets you’ve got on a specific dwelling display screen might be positioned anyplace you need — you are not restricted to a 4 x 6 grid, with apps robotically reshuffling do you have to relocate or take away one thing.
The customization instruments do not cease with app icon placement. You may also modify the dimensions of app icons, toggle between gentle and darkish modes, and even choose a specific tint to your icons. iOS 18 places you answerable for how the house display screen ought to look.
That stated, there are some limitations. As I famous in my iOS 18 public beta hands-on, once you change the tint on one icon or dwelling display screen, you modify it all through the telephone. Additionally, when you’ve got a number of lock display screen/dwelling display screen combos, your house display screen structure stays in place, even in the event you swap to a special profile. (That is a distinction to lock screens, which you’ll individually customise.) Hold that in thoughts in the event you’re laying out app icons to border a specific wallpaper.
Customizing your house display screen is so much like rearranging icon layouts earlier than the iOS 18 public beta arrived on the scene. This is how one can get began.
1. Go into dwelling display screen enhancing mode
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Press and maintain on an app icon or widget till a pop-up menu seems. Faucet on Edit Residence Display.
2. Customise your house display screen.
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Begin deleting and dragging round apps to place them nevertheless you need. If you’d like a specific app icon off this dwelling display screen, drag it off the display screen. You possibly can resize widgets by grabbing the handlebar within the decrease proper nook and dragging it outward. I’ve rearranged the app icons and widget on this dwelling display screen to border the Napali Coast off Kauai.
3. Customise your icons.
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If you wish to change the look of your icons, faucet the Edit button within the higher left nook. Then faucet Customise on the pop-up menu that seems.
4. Alter icon dimension
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A menu for customizing icons will seem on the backside of the display screen. The Small and Massive buttons will modify the dimensions of your app icons. Faucet the one you like.
5. Alter icon shading.
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You may also select whether or not to make your icons gentle or darkish by tapping both possibility. Choosing automated will permit your icon shading to regulate all through the day, turning to darkish mode at evening.
6. Alter icon shade
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The highest slider enables you to change the colour of your app icons, whereas the underside slider enables you to check out totally different gradients. The attention dropper instrument within the left nook permits you to match a shade out of your wallpaper picture. For instance, the precise screenshot displays the colour of the ocean that I chosen with the attention dropper instrument.
And that is all there may be to customizing your house display screen. When you obtain the iOS 18 public beta, you may get began on that or discover the opposite iOS 18 options to attempt immediately. We are able to additionally present you how one can schedule textual content messages — one other new characteristic added by iOS 18.
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