How to Change App Icons on Your iPhone's Home Screen

[KontryBoy706]

Apple should just go ahead and embrace allowing people to customize their home screen icons if they want. A simple dark mode took WAY too long. This back door work around of having custom icons is just annoying when they can easily implement a few custom icons choices and have them to be toggled in settings. That's like tic tac toe for them to enable.

 

[DeepIn2U]

Thanks.

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I wonder what a failed custom app icon launcher would look like? Lol

 

[matt_and_187_like_this]

This always happens when you allow too much customization. People **** up their experience for an 'original' icon.

 

[matt_and_187_like_this]

This really is a terrible workaround for what could be simple - iOS native ability to change app icons and icon packs in the app store.

Yea, fonts too please! Best thing about Android is that you can change system font to Comic Sans, kappa.

 

[matt_and_187_like_this]

Apple should just go ahead and embrace allowing people to customize their home screen icons if they want. A simple dark mode took WAY too long. This back door work around of having custom icons is just annoying when they can easily implement a few custom icons choices and have them to be toggled in settings. That's like tic tac toe for them to enable.

If you want glitter and comic sans get an Android.

 

[dmylrea]

Does this app tell you a daily false statement?

No, that's a different app. I forget the name, but remember it has lots of orange in it. A year ago they said it would be available in a couple weeks, and this past summer they said it was ready, but it still hasn't been released yet. But I heard it's the best app. Probably the best in the history of apps and no one has ever had a better app. It's going to be Bigly. More than likely, it doesn't exist.

 

[JosephAW]

No badges, I’ll pass. Time to step up to the plate Apple and allow us to paste in custom icons like macOS.

 

[oliversl]

Can I have iOS6 icons now?

 

[mattopotamus]

This really is a terrible workaround for what could be simple - iOS native ability to change app icons and icon packs in the app store.

I wouldn't be shocked if 1 of two things happens:

1) Apple realizes this is popular and allows it with future updates

2) Apple kills of this feature in shortcuts.

 

[Taylor710ce]

I'm always doing a double take on Apple's Health icon. Is it a dating app? Is it a blemish?

 

[Victor Mortimer]

Anybody got a handy set of iOS 6 icons, from back before Apple decided "suck" was a good theme?

 

[KontryBoy706]

If you want glitter and comic sans get an Android.

it has nothing to do with trash like what you wrote. Maybe I don't want to eat hamburgers everyday maybe I want the option the have something else. By your logic... you shouldn't be able to change your ringtone, background, or app arrangement, emoji race, etc oh and iOS 14 should have never happened either. Looks like Android. No, it's just more OPTIONS for users. If you don't want them don't use them. Simple as that.

 

[agsystems]

I was happy with the Home Screen in iOS 1. The only thing I have changed since upgrading to iOS 14 is the wallpaper.

don't know if you are joking but I tried to move around some apps and create folders for my parents and they got totally confused - I reverted everything back to the 1 app a time they are used to.

 

[agsystems]

I wouldn't be shocked if 1 of two things happens:

1) Apple realizes this is popular and allows it with future updates

2) Apple kills of this feature in shortcuts.

I vote for #2 - Per Apple, all iPhones must look the same for branding /s

 

[EM2013]

Cheap jailbreak imitation.

 

[gaximus]

So it is basically a desktop littered with aliases?

Pretty much, except an alias opens the app directly, this opens shortcuts, which the opens the app.

 

[ghanwani]

don't know if you are joking but I tried to move around some apps and create folders for my parents and they got totally confused - I reverted everything back to the 1 app a time they are used to.

Nope, not joking. Actually, I do use folders (the biggest one being the Apple folder with all the apps I don't use), but I don't intend to use widgets or try to change the way the icons look. For the most part, I avoid downloading apps and instead rely on safari to reach most websites and I don't play games. I have a total of 14 non-Apple apps on my phone.

 

[jman240]

Some of these are quite creative. Obviously there's a desire for this level of customization. Hopefully Apple realizes it and makes this more seamless in the future, however that might look.

 

[matt_and_187_like_this]

it has nothing to do with trash like what you wrote. Maybe I don't want to eat hamburgers everyday maybe I want the option the have something else. By your logic... you shouldn't be able to change your ringtone, background, or app arrangement, emoji race, etc oh and iOS 14 should have never happened either. Looks like Android. No, it's just more OPTIONS for users. If you don't want them don't use them. Simple as that.

I'm confused, you sound like you criticize my statement, yet you argue in favor of it.

 

[Christoffee]

Where’s the “Show off your Home Screen” threads?? I want to see what people are up to!

 

[acgmph]

Ain’t nobody got time for that!

Happy folks want to waste hours of their lives doing this—I choose to do other things.

 

[forrie]

Why does Apple continue to not make Location Services (on|off) available in either the Control Center or in this new, neato "Shortcuts" feature? It's really puzzling.

 

[B4U]

So, we can get the old iOS 6 icons back is what this article trying to tell us?

 

[magicschoolbus]

I'm glad were able to customize iOS a little bit - but hey.. can we get some new ringtones/text tones? It's been what. 7 years since new ones? My god..

 

[darkslide29]

"Replacing default app icons with images of your choosing allows you to freely customize the look of your home screen."

So cool!

"Tapping Custom App Icons launch Shortcuts first, and then the App. No Notification badges."

Oh no!