iOS 18 Lets You Hide App Labels on Your iPhone Home Screen

[davide_eu]

Yeah, and then set all icons to the same colour as your background and boom, you have the cleanest home screen ever

Yep, that was the best idea of the MS phone gui... Very easy, light...

 

[SeaFox]

Curious what you use for a launcher. I’m probably switching this year or early next year.

Not the person you asked, but I use Nova Launcher. It lets you get the icon size as a percent (125% is default), the labels are a separate setting (font, size, only one line or not, etc). App labels can be edited, and icons changed, ect.

 

[mrmacuser69]

This is so clean, but why did widgets even have labels in the first place?

 

[Chungry]

Not the person you asked, but I use Nova Launcher. It lets you get the icon size as a percent (125% is default), the labels are a separate setting (font, size, only one line or not, etc). App labels can be edited, and icons changed, ect.

Cheers and thank you!

 

[tgwaste]

I mean, they could have let us make the icons smaller, so we can fit more on a row AND remove labels, not exactly difficult I'm sure. :-/

I've given up hope that Crapple is going to let us adjust the grid size. I mean you can do it on ipad and have all the apps so tiny you can barely press them, but God forbid we get an extra row and column on the iPhone. It's such absolute BS.

Whats worse.. is there are apps in the app store that will let you accomplish the same thing but Crapple intentionally cripples them so that they are forced to launch the parent app and THEN the app you want causing it to be a slow garbage experience.

 

[tgwaste]

This is so clean, but why did widgets even have labels in the first place?

Because Apple treats their customers like children.

 

[tgwaste]

Not the person you asked, but I use Nova Launcher. It lets you get the icon size as a percent (125% is default), the labels are a separate setting (font, size, only one line or not, etc). App labels can be edited, and icons changed, ect.

Best launcher ever!

 

[Chungry]

Best launcher ever!

So what phone do you have? Considering the next pixel or galaxy for mine

 

[tgwaste]

So what phone do you have? Considering the next pixel or galaxy for mine

I have an iPhone 15 Pro but I've used plenty of Android phones in the past and Nova was always the first download.
If I switched to Android it will be the fold 5. Those phones are amazing.

 

[svish]

Good to have choice. Think I will use this.

 

[CarAnalogy]

Has Apple fired their designers, LMAO. What is this...

Good. Alan Dye has been locked in his office working on Vision Pro for years, systematically degrading the interface of all the other operating systems for its sake.

This is the first good design I've seen from Apple in a long time. Good as in, actually useful and functional rather than just change for the sake of change, reducing functionality in the process.

 

[imtoretto]

What’s the point of hide an app if you can still go to settings and check the battery details, THE APP YOU TRIED TO HIDE WILL STILL SHOW THERE…. LOL

 

[Gumbeaux]

Looks messy and very anti-Apple.

It’s a step in the right direction though.

Looks like one of those cheesy icon packs, I downloaded when I was into jailbreaking my devices years ago.

I’m sure Apple will refine this and add to it over time, so I’ll be patient with their approach here.

 

[Liquid Galaxy]

Do the beta and suggest it.

I mean, the widgets don’t have labels on the iPad…find it weird that they do on the phone, I figured there must be a reason for it.