What Android users have been able to do for quite some time, will soon be possible for iPhone users as well: personalize your smartphone. But on exactly how many things can you do that?
Many iPhone users have been begging Apple for years for the ability to personalize your smartphone. The company didn’t do much with it, until now. It will soon be possible to arrange your home screen exactly how you want it.
But how exactly does it work on iOS 18 and how far can you really go? We take you through.
Even more personalization on your iPhone through iOS 18
You probably recognize it when you install a new app on your iPhone: it’s always placed in the next free spot on your screen. At most, you can put it on a new page or in a folder with several other apps. Or you put a new app in the bar at the bottom of the home screen.
With the arrival of iOS 18 in September, much more is possible. Let’s get to the home screen first, because starting with iOS 18, you can put an app or widget in any free spot on the screen you want. This way you create exactly the home screen you want.
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In addition, it is also possible to make all app icons the same color or darker. For example, if you have a blue background, you can also give all apps the same blue color. This gives a much calmer and more personalized screen for your iPhone. Moreover, you can also make them larger if this suits you better.
But it is also possible to remove the names of apps from your screen. Now you see them below the icons by default. So then you are left with just the icons, which may look sleeker. You can also hide apps completely.
You can customize the control panel quite a bit
But not only your home screen is considerably customizable, so is the control panel. This will be considerably more extensive in iOS 18 than in previous versions of the operating system on your iPhone. That should make it easier to make the control panel work better the way you want it to.
The new control panel. (Image: Apple)
Moreover, you can now divide the control panel into different groups, which you very easily swipe between. For example, think of a group that is there specifically for controlling your Smart Home products. Moreover, with the arrival of iOS 18, it is also possible to add controllers from other app makers to the control panel.
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