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Gurman: iOS 18 Will Allow Users to Recolor App Icons and Place Them Anywhere

Might make those users who insist on doing clean installs for every release unhappy with all the extra work they will need to do.
 
These are all changes they think we would like, however if we did - others are far superior at customization than .

Allowing a user to override a work of art is cheap, distasteful, and not at all what we’re looking for. Are they?
 
tothemoonsands said:
Assuming this will be up to the given app developers to enable? Would be very interesting if it’s a forced global option.

More customization is awesome, but I think about other major necessities like a keychain.app to compete against dedicated password managers etc
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I doubt it’s something devs have control over since would be very frustrating if some apps worked and done didn’t. And in that case would be better to not allow it all all. You can already force any icon to via shortcuts but this presumably will make it easier, perhaps just adding a tint overlay or Ai used to regenerate a logo with new color.

The only way I see it being a dev option is if like with fav icons where they can create a monichrome icon that could be used so iOS can change color to whatever use wants.
 
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Oh please ... how about a far better iOS /iPadOS than more auto-speaking bs ... especially the iPad M4. About time they actually delived on 'post pc' vs. a crippled OS. All that money for a new iPadPro & all its going to do is argue with you and/or do some atypical north-american value system & try to impose it on the rest of the world ...
 
phenste said:
it’s useful for sure, and makes sense intuitively—I find it can be overwhelming in the age of huge-screen iPhones. if home screens are the modern desktop (…that’s a funny statement), it feels like iOS has gotten to a Windows 98/XP level of desktop bloat. it’d be nice to have a home screen with ~10 apps I check daily (hourly, even) on which I can choose where the free space is. strictly top-to-bottom/left-to-right isn’t looking realistically at what consumers might want going forward, esp. given the biggest hit out of Shortcuts for the average consumer was “oh you can customize app icons now”
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Bloat means features that consume excess memory. Having icons covering a panel doesn’t consume barely more memory than having none.
 
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Slix said:
I never understood why people wanted to be able to put blank spaces on their home screens. Wouldn't you want your home screen filled with apps so you don't have to scroll home screens as much?
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I think people want to push icons down closer to their thumbs. Most people can’t reach the top row or two of a 12” pro max plus ultra iPhone.
 
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I have no interest in skinning apps, but I would very much like a better way of moving them around. Taking away the ability to do that on your Mac was a dumb move. Too often do they jump pages or try to create folders with other apps unintentionally. It would also be nice if folders could display larger than 3x3.
 
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I like this idea

If this is at an OS level, keeps things looking relatively clean and Apple-y, and maintains the app’s logo/icon/identity, it seems like a very good compromise between what we have and completely custom icons, which can easily make things look tacky/messy. I’m sure Apple is trying to avoid that at all costs
 
Böhme417 said:
It would also be nice if folders could display larger than 3x3.
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Like how folders work in the App Library? They use smaller icons to achieve a 4x4 grid, though this could be made larger (possibly 5x5) on something like a 15 Pro Max. Even with the (small) size difference, it is so much better than the 3x3 that you get on the homescreen.

Böhme417 said:
Taking away the ability to do that on your Mac was a dumb move. Too often do they jump pages or try to create folders with other apps unintentionally.
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It's absurd that they haven't fixed that yet. I used to make an effort to have a clean Launchpad, but stopped after it was sometimes set back to default after an OS update + the frustration of arranging apps into a certain space without them going into a folder or onto another page.

These days, I don't even think about Launchpad anymore and just use Spotlight for almost everything.
 
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Böhme417 said:
I have no interest in skinning apps, but I would very much like a better way of moving them around. Taking away the ability to do that on your Mac was a dumb move. Too often do they jump pages or try to create folders with other apps unintentionally. It would also be nice if folders could display larger than 3x3.
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Yesss, I wish we could customize the grid for both the folder icons and the folder once you open it. For ones that have only a few apps I hate how empty the 3x3 icon looks, so 2x2 would be nice, and for larger folders a 4x4 option would be amazing

It would be cool if we could choose that on a per-folder basis too
 
I don’t mind about icons being snapped to a grid. I just want the grid to start at the bottom where my thumb is and go up without having to block space with big unused widgets. Also shortcut widgets that are the size of a single app icon instead two or four.
 
Now you too can have an iOS interface that looks like the demon spawn of your great aunt’s Windows desktop and a Winamp skin!
 
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