How To Change The IPhone Home Screen Display To Make It Cooler, No Additional Applications Needed

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JAKARTA - Apple did not add a feature to change the theme of the iPhone Home Screen as a whole. So far, users can only change the background image on the iPhone screen.

Unlike Android phones that allow users to change the theme of their screen display, some iPhone users can only see the iPhone Home Screen as it is.

Not many features are provided by Apple to change the iPhone Home Screen to make it look more aesthetic. However, recently since the presence of the iOS 14 operating system version, users can add widgets to the Home Screen.

"The Home Screen is the main part of the cellphone screen display, which is usually used as a container to load various applications," reads a review on the careercenter.id page.

On Android phones, users can change the theme of the Home Screen, namely fonts, logos or application icons, background images, animations on the screen, and more.

Meanwhile, on the iPhone, stuck users can only change the screen display theme to dark, change the background image, or add widgets.

The changes were also done manually one by one, not integrated in one theme settings menu like on Android phones.

However, there are still ways that users can take if they want to create an aesthetic Home Screen on the iPhone. The way that can be done is to replace the iPhone application icon with a more attractive image. You don't need support from additional apps to do this.

You simply have an image with a matching theme stored in the gallery, then take advantage of a feature from the default application called “Shortcut” or “Shortcut” to make the image into an application icon.

This application can be accessed directly on an iPhone with a minimum of iOS 13 or later. So, first make sure your phone is running iOS that supports the Shortcuts app.

How to change iPhone app icon image

Collect the image you want to set as the app icon. There are many websites that provide free application icon images that you can use. Go to the page via the Safari browser, select the icon image from the available collections and download it. The downloaded image will be saved in the “Downloads” folder in the “Files” application. Open the image, click the “Share” option and select the “Save Image” option. The image will be saved in your iPhone gallery. Open the Shortcuts app. Click the plus icon in the top right corner of the Home page of the Shortcuts app. Click the “Add Action” option and enter an action with the name “Open App” or Open App”. Once the action appears in the column, tap on the faintly written “App” name and start entering the app you want to open via a shortcut. Then, click the blue three-dot icon in the right corner of the add shortcut menu page. Next, click the “Add to Home Screen” option. In the “Home Screen Name and Icon” column, tap on the shortcut logo to create the application that will be used, then click the “Select Photo” option and enter the image that was saved in the gallery. Change the name of the application shortcut according to your wishes in the column provided. Once the shortcut setup is complete, click the “Add” option.

Then, you will have an application icon with a more attractive image on your iPhone's Home Screen.

The Shortcut application has a function to create a Shortcut button so that you can perform various actions quickly, including opening applications.

So the above method is basically not to replace the icon image in the main application. However, create an image on the shortcut key of the application.

While it already has shortcut keys with icon images that have been changed, the main application with its original logo still appears on the iPhone Home Screen.

You can hide the main application so that the Home Screen displays the Shortcut of the application with the icon that has been changed. That way, the iPhone Home Screen looks cooler.

To hide the main app, tap and hold it until a pop-up menu appears. Then, select the “Remove App” option and click “Remove from Home Screen”.

The main application will not appear on the Home Screen, but is stored on the App Library page. You can do the above method again to add application Shortcuts and hide the main application in the App Library page.

Keep doing it until all the application icons that appear on the iPhone Home Screen look the same and more attractive. To bring back the main app on the Home Screen, simply tap on the app on the Library page, then select the "Add to Home Screen" option.

If you are getting bored with the icon image of the Shortcut, you can delete it. The trick is to press the Shortcut icon until a pop-up menu appears, then click the "Delete" option. Don't worry, deleting Shortcut will not remove the main application.

The above steps are applied to iPhone Xs with iOS 15.4. If the iPhone model and operating system used are different, the options may also be different. Good luck.