How to Customize Your Home Screen With iOS 18 You can finally change the color and size of app icons, rearrange them anywhere on the screen, and more.

But when Apple released iOS 18 in September, it introduced a major, and long overdue, change to your iPhone: the ability to customize your home screen.

How to move apps and widgets on the home screen Shuffling your home screen apps and widgets is also a cinch thanks to iOS 18’s customization overhaul.

iOS 18 features one of the most important changes in iPhone history: A Home Screen revamp. Here's how to customize it.

How to customize the home and lock screen in iOS 18 First up, let’s talk about how you access the new capabilities.

Apple said iOS 18 would be released to the public this fall, but there's no definitive date yet. Here are all the ways you can customize your home screen to make it as fun and unique as you are.

iOS 18 introduces a wealth of customization options for your iPhone's home and lock screens, allowing you to personalize your device like never before.

Here’s how it works. Light, Dark, or custom tint To change the appearance of an icon, start with a long press on your home screen in an area where there is no app icon for a couple of seconds.

Prior to the iOS 18, you had to long-press on your home screen, tap the plus (+) sign in the top right corner of your screen and then search for the right widget.