How to Customize Your Home Screen With iOS 18

if you're bored with your location screen, I person bully quality for you. With iOS 18, you tin yet personalize it nevertheless you'd like. You tin present alteration the colour of app icons and widgets (and adjacent lucifer them to your wallpaper), alteration the size to marque them look larger, and spot them anyplace you'd similar connected the screen. Below, we interruption down each the elemental steps connected however to customize your location screen.

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How to Make the Icons Bigger

1. Long-press connected the location surface until the app icons commencement to wiggle.
2. Tap Edit successful the precocious right-hand country of the screen, and past pat Customize.
3. Choose betwixt Small oregon Large astatine the bottommost of the screen.
4. Tap connected the location surface again to prevention the changes.

How to Change the Color of App Icons

1. Long-press connected the location surface until the app icons commencement to wiggle.
2. Tap Edit successful the precocious right-hand country of the surface and past pat Customize.
3. Choose betwixt Light mode, Dark mode, oregon Automatic (which changes depending connected whether it's time oregon night).
4. There's besides a Tinted option, which allows you to usage the sliders to customize the colour and saturation. You tin besides pat the eyedropper instrumentality to prime a colour from your wallpaper to use to the icons.
5. You tin pat the sun icon connected the near to darken the background. This volition marque it easier to spot the icons, depending connected the colors you choose.