Are you looking to personalize your iPhone's Home Screen beyond the standard layout? Changing app icons is a creative way to customize your device's appearance and make it uniquely yours. Whether ...

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Apple released iOS 18.4 in March, and that update brought new emoji, a new recipes section to News and more to your iPhone. But when Apple released iOS 18 in September, it introduced a major (and long ...

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The launch of Apple’s latest operating system, iOS 26, introduced a new design language called Liquid Glass. The interface makeover, one of Apple’s largest since the shift from skeuomorphic to flat ...

With iOS 18, Apple is giving us unprecedented (for Apple) control over the layout of our home screens. A big part of that is customizable icon colors. That’s right, icons can have separate light and ...

With the launch of iOS 18, Apple is taking iPhone customization to a new level. Before, you could easily add widgets to your Home Screen or rearrange its pages, apply your own wallpaper, and, more ...

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Google's latest budget-oriented phone is here in the form of the Pixel 9a. As with previous a-series Pixel phones, the Pixel 9a includes most of what makes the flagship Pixel 9 devices great, but in a ...

iOS might be catching up in terms of customization, but if you want to take full pixel-by-pixel control over the look of the software on your phone, Android still leads the way. You're able to change ...

If you are an iPhone user who’s been longing for a touch of customization on your device, particularly on the home screen, you will be pleased to know that iOS 17 brings a refreshing change. Gone are ...

After finally giving in to custom app icons on the home screen in iOS 14, Apple is back this year with further customization in iOS 16 — this time for the iPhone's lock screen. In iOS 16, iPhone users ...