iOS 18: Hide App Names on Your iPhone Home Screen

[FelixDerKater]

Can we be allowed to have more than the allotted number of home screens?

 

[axantas]

It hides icon names, folder names, blue dots (newly upgraded) and clouds (offloaded).

Luckily, like animals which make themselves bright red/yellow so you know they're poisonous, this option also makes the icons look ridiculously big, so you're not tempted to use it anyway 😁

Sometimes, I am asking myself "what are you doing Apple - anybody home?" There are attempts to do something useful, but then the coffee machine is only offering "coffee with sugar" "coffee with milk" but no "coffee with milk and sugar"

 

[FkCombustion]

Everyone here:
“I didn’t like it in 30 seconds so I swapped back”
Jesus… give it some time lol
Larger icons = more space to launch them, bigger widgets

 

[businessnumbersmoneypeopl]

Apple is edging closer and closer to Jailbreak vibes with its OS. Took some time though.

 

[Mantahoe]

i want to keep icons the same size and remove names. when i increase the icon size it makes my iphone feel like a silly kids toy and a phone my grandparents would use!

I wish they would just listen and allow us to do this. The big icons are hideous.

 

[Apple Mac Daz]

Big icons look ugly just give the option to remove the labels with standard icon size

 

[mdatwood]

I made this change when it came out, and don't see myself going back to having names.

 

[Sir Ruben]

This is one of those things I THOUGHT I wanted, until I tried it and was like "Eww!"

 

[Darrensk8]

I made the change on first beta as hoped I’d get used to comically large icons….i had to revert

 

[Skyscraperfan]

Coming from Android I can't imagine having such a small number of Apps per screen. With the Nova Launcher I use an 8x8 grid plus five additional apps at the bottom that appear on every screen. I can even place Apps between the grid positions. So in fact it is a 16x16 grid where every app takes up a 2x2 space.

The size of the keys on a virtual keyboard shows how small icons could become while still being easily clickable.

 

[GrayFlannel]

As is, it looks to be a poorly thought out change and equally poor execution.

 

[RobertoDLV]

I'm also team "let's have the textless choice with smaller icons". The iOS layout with large icons is just fugly. It works on a larger screen like iPads. Not on cramped layouts.
I requested the option through apple beta program. I'm sure they won't even bother.

It also made me realize the home screen widgets edges are not perfectly aligned to those of app icons. Wether the icons are large or small. Thank you apple for triggering my OCD.

 

[Crickster]

We should be able to hide the labels and have the option to make the icons smaller or large.

 

[zapmymac]

Well I want one page with app icons only, and another page with their respective labels dammit!

 

[PeterKeller]

Can anyone say for sure if this works on iPad as well? Would love to do this on a Mini.

 

[TheBMacAttack]

I really can't decide. I like not having the labels, but damn the icons are huge. Maybe they won't look so huge after using it for awhile.

 

[LIVEFRMNYC]

I like the slightly larger icons with no labels, especially with dark icons enabled. I do agree with markgpearse, the folders should still have labels. I think widget labels should disappear completely no matter what settings.

 

[dimplemonkey]

I must be in the minority. I like it a lot. It's minimalist. A little rearranging and it can look really great without feeling like it's a child's toy or phone for grandparents.

 

[contacos]

I wish we could get rid of those ugly smudged shadows on those labels as well. It makes every light wallpaper look like crap.

Anyway. I am happy to call the Fold 6 my main phone now. More options

 

[aquariun76]

I changed to Large size.

Odd looking at first. But getting used to it. Love it without labels. I am not using folders.

I like it to be Icons remaining same size
Grid having one more column and one more row of icons. 4x6 - > 5x7 or 5x8

Large icon with 4x6 grid also should be optional.
Also the icons in dock increased to 5. With 5x7 grid

 

[scorpio vega]

Yeah it looks terrible with the icons larger. It reminds me of those old ppl phones with super huge everything.

No thanks

Anyway. I am happy to call the Fold 6 my main phone now. More options

Yikes. Bless your heart for making an android your main phone.

Happy for you though I suppose.

 

[eduardodfj]

Everyone here:
“I didn’t like it in 30 seconds so I swapped back”
Jesus… give it some time lol

Way more than enough time to see how ugly it is.

I hope, since this is a beta, that they'll realize what a lot of people is pointing out, that you should have the option to remove names without the icons becoming bigger.

 

[Dianneeraser]

Such a dumb design choice by Apple requiring larger icons to remove the label….

 

[axantas]

Can anyone say for sure if this works on iPad as well? Would love to do this on a Mini.

It does - there is even more free space now, even with larger icons...

 

[sleeptodream]

The size of the keys on a virtual keyboard shows how small icons could become while still being easily clickable.

Actually, the size of the touch zones around the individual keys on the keyboard are constantly changing, and are larger than the keys you can see, based on how frequently different letters are used, and which letter it thinks you’re going to type next