For most people, customizing the home screen of your iPhone doesn’t go any further than choosing a different background. But you can also use other icons on your iPhone. This is how you do it!
Other icons on your iPhone
Changing the lock screen and home screen is not too difficult. and since iOS 17, you have many more options to customize, especially for the lock screen, than before. But if you would like to personalize even more, it is also possible to adjust the icons on your iPhone.
Changing the icons on your iPhone is a bit more complicated than changing the background. But if you take your time, you will notice that it is not so bad. We show you how to proceed.
This is how you change the icons on your iPhone
The apps on the home screen have their own logos, but with the Shortcuts app it is possible to change the appearance of each app icon. You do this as follows:
- Open the Assignments app, tap the plus sign at the top right and then tap ‘Add task’;
- Type ‘open app’ in the search bar and under ‘Scripting’, tap ‘Open app’;
- Tap ‘app’ and select the app whose icon you want to customize;
- Tap the down arrow at the top next to ‘Open app’ and then tap ‘Add to home screen’;
- Adjust the name under ‘NAME AND SYMBOL FOR HOME SCREEN’;
- Find another icon on the Internet and save to Photos;
- Go back to the Assignments app, tap the icon and then ‘Choose photo’;
- Tap the downloaded icon, tap Choose, then tap Add.
You now have an app with a different icon on your iPhone (it’s actually a bookmark). You can delete the original app from your home screen. You can always easily find it in the App Library.
You can do this for any app whose icon you want to change. There are many icons on the internet that you can use. In addition, there are websites where you can download a whole set of icons at once, for example at icons8.
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