By August Garry
Add the Contacts widget to your iPhone's Home Screen to quickly send a message, call, or video chat with your most-contacted people. Learning how to make a widget on your iPhone Home Screen with your most frequent contacts is super easy. Let's learn how to save contacts to the iPhone Home Screen!
By Amy Spitzfaden Both
Wild for widgets? We've compiled a list of fun ways to update your iPhone icons, including how to set up custom app icons, add themed widget ideas, and change widget sizes. We'll also go beyond app icon aesthetics and show you how to customize widget stacks and move your phone app icons from the Today View to your Home screen. Let's get started with how to change your Home Screen on the iPhone and make it more personalized to you.
By Rhett Intriago
The latest software update for your iPhone brings many new customization options. You can now drag apps anywhere on your Home Screen while still keeping them in a neat grid. Here’s how to move an iPhone app anywhere on your Home Screen.
By Rhett Intriago
Your Home Screen is more customizable than ever before. The latest software updates from Apple now allow you to change the color and size of your app icons to better match your personal aesthetic. Here’s how to customize app icons on your iPhone.
By Erin MacPherson
The iPhone Dock lets you access your most frequently used apps from any of your Home screens. The default iPhone Dock apps are the Phone, Safari, Messages, and Music apps. I’ll teach you how to change, rearrange, and organize apps into folders.
By Conner Carey
Since Apple came out with iOS 16 and iPadOS 16 in 2022, changing your Home and Lock screen backgrounds has even more customization options. Below, we'll show you how to change your background to one of Apple's free wallpapers or set one of your photos as your device wallpaper. Let's go over how to change the background on your iPhone and iPad.
By Amy Spitzfaden Both
Your app collection is one area that can quickly make your iPhone feel disorganized. Your Home Screen becomes cluttered and soon you’re swiping through page after page, trying to figure out where the three apps you actually use ended up. Here are some tips to get your apps under control.
By Conner Carey
Can you hide apps on an iPhone? Absolutely. You can use your iPhone's built-in features to hide any Apple or third-party app for free. We'll show you how to hide an app on your iPhone by removing it from your Home Screen, placing it in a folder, and hiding it from Search and Siri Suggestions. If you want to hide multiple apps, you can even hide an entire Home Screen page of app icons.
By Amy Spitzfaden Both
Your Home Screen is like your physical space; it’s easy to let it get cluttered and, once it does, it’s not only distracting but can make you feel like you’ll never get it under control. Here are three easy ways to revamp your Home Screen experience to turn it into your digital dream space.
By Rachel Needell
Is there a way to mass delete apps on iPhone or iPad? Years ago, Apple used to allow you to bulk delete apps on your devices by going into iTunes. While this feature doesn't exist anymore, there are still a few ways you can delete apps on iPhone. Let's go over the fastest ways to delete apps on iPhone and iPad.
By Erin MacPherson
I love my apps and widgets, but I can't stand clutter. It drives me nuts to have to spend several minutes looking for an app on my iPhone. To solve this problem, I've put together some tips and tricks to help you remove clutter while keeping your apps and data easy to access. Let's look at the ten best ways to declutter your iPhone Home Screen.
By Amy Spitzfaden Both
If you went a bit overboard with your new ability to create different Lock Screen wallpapers, you'll want to know how to delete a wallpaper. It's easy to do, and will also delete the associated Home Screen wallpaper that comes with it. Here's how to delete a wallpaper on iPhone.
By Sarah Kingsbury
If you have a favorite website you use daily, consider adding the website to your Home Screen on iPhone or iPad. This is perfect for quickly accessing a website without needing to enter the URL in Safari each time. You can bookmark the website to a Home Screen icon that looks just like an app and opens just as easily. Here's how to add a website to your Home Screen.
You might have noticed some changes to your iPad's Home screen in iPadOS 15, not all of them good. I had my Home screen arranged the way I like it, but now, when I switch from landscape orientation to portrait, the icon grid changes from 6 x 4 to 4 x 6, forcing a rearranged icon configuration. Irritating! But there's got to be a way to fix it, right? Well, kind of. We'll dig into it below.
By Rhett Intriago
If you want to crack down on the way you use your iPhone while you’re at work, this tip about how to ensure productivity might be perfectly suited to your habits. With a Work Focus, you can customize your Home Screen to ensure you have fewer distractions throughout the day. Let’s go over how to set a different iPhone Home Screen layout while at work!
By Rhett Intriago
Making calls with your iPhone has never been easier. In the past, speed dial was the fastest way to get in touch with your friends and family. Now, you can add contacts to your favorites, place frequent contacts on your home screen, or create a shortcut to quickly call your closest friend. Your contacts are just a tap away, so let’s go over how to use speed dial on iPhone.
By Amy Spitzfaden Both
One of the many ways you can customize your iPhone Home Screen is to hide apps without deleting them entirely. This enables you to keep your Home Screen clean by only featuring the apps you want the quickest access to or to hide apps you might want to keep private. You can still access the apps you removed from your Home Screen through the App Library.
By Abbey Dufoe
Sometimes you need to do some app housecleaning. Maybe your kid moved your apps around, or maybe you just want to see what apps you currently have installed. If you have a lot of apps, it can be easy to lose track of them, even if they're organized into folders. If you’re looking for a fresh start, take a few quick steps in your settings to reset your Home Screen layout on iPhone or iPad.
By Rachel Needell
Checking the weather before starting my day is one of my most important daily routines. I like to know what the forecast will be so I can plan what clothes I need to wear and what to prepare for when I'm headed out. But sometimes, the iPhone native Weather app can let you down. If you want the most accurate weather with fewer ads, you can add the National Weather Service to your Home Screen as an app icon.
By Amy Spitzfaden Both
If you want to organize apps on your iPhone automatically alphabetically, your easiest bet is to reset your Home Screen layout. This will sort all your apps by title alphabetically to make swiping easy and intuitive instead of having to shuffle through what was most recently downloaded. Here's how to put apps in alphabetical order on your iPhone and iPad.
