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How To Customize Your IPhone Home Screen With Widgets And App Icons

How to Customize Your iPhone Home Screen With Widgets and App Icons. 

How To Add Widgets To Your IPhone Home Screen

For the first time ever, iOS 14 made it possible to add widgets to the Home screen on an iPhone. A widget is a light version of an app that displays information and lets you interact with it directly on the Home screen.

You can customize your iPhone Home screen with widgets for almost every stock Apple app and a growing selection of third-party apps. To add one:

  1. Tap and hold in a blank space on your iPhone's Home screen to enter Jiggle mode.
  2. In the top corner, tap the Add (+) icon to view your available widgets. Search or scroll through the selection to find the widget you want.
  3. After selecting a widget, swipe left and right to view different versions of it, then tap Add Widget.
  4. Drag and drop to move the widget around your Home screen just like you would with any other app. You can even drop multiple same-sized widgets on top of each other to create a widget stack.
  5. Tap Done or click the Home button to exit Jiggle mode.

Change The Size Of Your Widgets

Most iPhone widgets are available in three sizes: small, medium, and large. To change the size of a widget, you need to delete it from your Home screen, then add it again in a different size

Here's how to do this:

  1. Tap and hold in a blank space on the Home screen to enter Jiggle mode.
  2. Tap the Minus (-) icon on a widget and confirm you want to Remove it. Alternatively, tap and hold a widget, then tap Remove Widget from the quick-action menu.
  3. Finally, tap the Add (+) icon to add the widget again in a different size.

Customize The Widget Settings

A lot of iPhone widgets let you edit some basic settings to change how they work. This could mean changing the location displayed in the Weather widget or changing the list shown in the Reminders widget.

If you create a widget stack, you can also enable Smart Rotate or edit the arrangement of widgets in the stack. Here's how to change them:

  1. Tap and hold on a widget until a quick-action menu appears.
  2. Choose to Edit Widget or, if available, Edit Stack.
  3. Change the relevant settings, then return to the Home screen.

How To Hide Apps From Your IPhone Home Screen

Apple also made it possible to hide apps from your Home screen with the release of iOS 14. This means you can personalize your Home screen layout by only including the most important apps. Here's how:

  1. Tap and hold on an app until a quick-action menu appears.
  2. Choose to Remove App.
  3. Then choose to Move to App Library
  4. When you move an app to the App Library, it remains installed on your iPhone despite vanishing from the Home screen. If you choose to Delete App instead, it vanishes from your iPhone entirely.
  5. To view the App Library, swipe to the right past your last Home screen. You should find every app on your iPhone automatically categorized into smart folders.
  6. You can also tap the search bar to search for an app or view them in a list.

Hide Entire Home Screens

Rather than sending every app to the App Library individually, you can also choose to hide entire Home screens on your iPhone. When you do this, your iPhone saves the Home screen layout so it's easy to bring back if you ever change your mind.

Below is how you change Home screen layouts:

  1. Tap and hold in a blank space on the Home screen to enter Jiggle mode.
  2. Tap the Home screen dots at the bottom of the screen. You should see a zoomed-out view of all your iPhone Home screens.
  3. Tap the checkmarks to select or deselect each Home screen, choosing whether to hide it or not.

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