Apple launched iOS 18.2 on Dec. 11, and that replace introduced a variety of Apple Intelligence options, like Genmoji and Image Playground, to some iPhones. But when Apple launched iOS 18 in September, it launched a serious, and lengthy overdue, change to your iPhone: the power to customise your property display screen.
With iOS 18, you may take away app labels, change the colour of app icons, prepare apps across the display screen in new methods and way more. So you can provide your iPhone some vacation cheer by making your app icons inexperienced in case your wallpaper is crimson or vice versa.
Read extra: iOS 18 Brings These Features to Your iPhone
Here are all of the methods you may customise your property display screen to make it as enjoyable and distinctive as you’re.
How to take away app labels in iOS 18
Tap Large to make your apps a bit bigger and to take away app labels.
1. Long-press in your background to enter jiggle mode — the place your apps are all shaking.
2. Tap Edit within the high left nook of your display screen.
3. Tap Customize.
4. Tap Large within the new menu that seems on the backside of your display screen.
Your app icons will develop, and the labels beneath them will disappear. This seems a lot cleaner to me, and I do not plan on displaying app labels ever once more.
If you do not like this, comply with the above steps once more however faucet Small. The apps will revert to their regular measurement and the labels will reappear.
How to vary the colour of your app icons
1. Long-press in your background to enter jiggle mode — the place your apps are shaking.
2. Tap Edit within the high left nook of your display screen.
3. Tap Customize.
4. Tap the icon within the far proper of the menu throughout the underside of your display screen labeled Tinted.
This will pull up a gradient scale on the backside of this menu, and you’ll slide them till you get simply the fitting hue.
The icon on the far proper exhibits what a tinted app would seem like
You may also faucet the eyedropper icon within the high proper nook of the menu to pick out a shade out of your background that matches your icons extra carefully. That approach you are not transferring the sliders and getting annoyed as a result of the colours aren’t matching — not that this occurred to me, positively not. This change will have an effect on all of your app icons.
You may also give a few of your apps a darker background.
1. Long-press in your background to enter jiggle mode — the place your apps are shaking.
2. Tap Edit within the high left nook of your display screen.
3. Tap Customize.
4. Tap the icon left of heart within the menu throughout the underside of your display screen labeled Dark.
Apple’s first-party apps, like Messages, Safari and extra, will now have an almost-black background. This change applies to first-party Apple apps and a few third-party apps, just like the YouTube and Bluesky apps. Other third-party apps, like Instagram and Snapchat, are unchanged.
Choosing Dark will darken your background, which might scale back the quantity of energy your iPhone makes use of and prolong your battery life.
How to solely darken your background
If you have tinted your app icons, or just like the icons with a lighter look, you may darken your background to make the icons stand out. Here’s how.
1. Long-press on a part of your background to enter jiggle mode — the place your apps are shaking.
2. Tap Edit within the high left nook of your display screen.
3. Tap Customize.
4. Tap the solar icon within the high left nook of the brand new menu.
This will solely darken your wallpaper and will not have an effect on your app icons.
How to rearrange apps round your property display screen
Arranging apps on your property display screen is similar course of as earlier than. You can both enter jiggle mode by long-pressing on a clean portion of your background after which dragging apps the place you need them to go, or press and drag an app to a brand new location.
You can place all of your apps close to the underside of your display screen, have them body your display screen or prepare them in another variety of patterns. Since I’m right-handed, I positioned most of my apps on the fitting facet of my display screen so I can simply faucet them with out concern of dropping my cellphone. This additionally makes it straightforward to make sure you see your background if it is a image of a liked one or a pet.
The grid continues to be current, so you may’t place apps on high of one another or too shut collectively. If you enlarge your apps, there will probably be a large hole between your dock throughout the underside of your display screen and the bottom row of the grid. It seems prefer it’s sufficiently big to suit one other app icon, however you may’t — I attempted to no avail.
For extra on iOS 18, this is what to learn about iOS 18.2 and iOS 18.1 and our iOS 18 cheat sheet. You may also take a look at what might come to your iPhone with iOS 18.3.
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