In iOS 18, you're no longer restricted to a grid of app icons and widgets. The updated iPhone software lets you move things wherever you want. Here's how to customize your home screen.

After two years of being MIA, the on-screen volume slider returns to the iPhone's lock screen — if you know which setting to adjust in iOS 18.2. Skip to main content Open menu Close menu ...

Subscribe to 9to5Mac on YouTube for more videos. Flexible app and widget placement. For the first time in iOS’ history, you can place app icons and widgets anywhere on the home screen grid.

That sounds complicated, but with iOS 17, if you added a new app to your ‌Home Screen‌, it would automatically go to the next open spot. In ‌iOS 18‌, you can choose where to put it.

iOS 18 gives you more agency as far as how your widgets and apps look on the home screen. Since iOS 14 introduced widgets, there have been very few customization options available.

Apart from the much-ballyhooed (and delayed) Apple Intelligence, a big change to home screen customization and app icon placement is one of iOS 18’s flagship features, alongside an overhauled ...

The iOS 17 app update will let you add a home screen widget for a contact. You can log your last mode of interaction — call, text, in-person meeting, or email — with them through the widget ...

The iOS 18 update lets you re-arrange app icons and place them anywhere on your Home Screen. This was not possible with iOS 17, where app icons automatically get pulled to the top of the screen.

This Home Screen won’t survive to see iOS 18. My Home Screen wish-list has long been driven by my need to organise a mountain of apps and games. I’ve often had over a dozen Home Screens, peppered with ...

Even before you remove apps from your home screen, you can still use iOS 14’s App Library to find every app on your iPhone. To access the App Library, swipe beyond the very last page of the home ...