Customizing your iPhone’s app icons offers a creative way to make your device uniquely yours. Whether you prefer a clean, minimalistic design or a bold, colorful theme, Apple provides tools to help ...

The official launch of Apple’s iOS 18 brought with it some fresh ways to customize your iPhone’s home screen. Rather than leaving unwanted apps hanging around like a bad smell in places you don’t want ...

Apple's new iOS 26 update offers one of the most radical visual redesigns in iPhone, iPad, and Mac history. The new "Liquid Glass" design language features transparent components, reimagined app icons ...

Have you ever looked at your iPhone’s home screen and thought, “This doesn’t feel like me”? With so much of our daily lives revolving around our devices, it’s only natural to want them to reflect our ...

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Want to switch back to full-color icons? Just repeat steps 1-3, but select Default instead of Clear. iOS 26 also lets you choose between always using Dark icons, automatically switching from Default ...

As well as a refreshed new look for system components like buttons and tabbars, the Liquid Glass redesign of iOS 26 also extends to app icons. For the first time since iOS 7, Apple has redrawn all of ...

If you're sick and tired of too much clutter on your iPhone's home screen, you can hide the app names by using a hidden iOS 18 feature that not a lot of users know about. I made the switch several ...

With iOS 26, Apple gives you more control than ever over how your Home screen looks and feels. For example, as part of the new Liquid Glass redesign you can now make app icons and widgets clear. You ...

For iOS 17, Apple introduced interactive widgets that let you control certain app functions right from the home screen or lock screen. Since then, you can tick items off your to-do list, press play on ...