Apple’s iOS 18 will finally allow iPhone users to place icons anywhere, not confined to a grid, so that they can organize their displays with icons — much like many of us do with our Macs — in whatever way they see fit.
Mark Gurman for Bloomberg News:
For decades, Apple’s industrial design team dictated the look and feel of all of the company’s products, ensuring that the software running on devices matched the clean lines and simplicity of the hardware.
Now, customers are going to get a bit more say. In the latest iPhone operating system — iOS 18, codenamed Crystal — app icons will no longer have to remain in a neat grid. Instead, users will be able to place icons wherever they choose on their home screen. Moreover, icon colors will be customizable for the first time. That means users could make all their social media apps blue or finance-related icons green.
All together, it’s considered to be the biggest upgrade to the home screen in the iPhone’s 17-year history.
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Again with the solutions for problems that don’t exist… don’t forget to add more emojis…cause that will really make life better.
And gay pride wallpapers and watch faces. Oh and BLM. And antifa. And whatever other garbage causes Apple’s loser leadership jerks off to.
That’s right Apple, inflict icon chaos on us.
If you don’t want to move your icons, don’t. If you’d like to move your icons, do. Pretty simple. Apple is not inflicting chaos on anyone with this option. You decide.
Just so long as I can keep my neatly aligned iPhone’s visual appearance.
I really do not want my screen to look like my wife’s untidy Galaxy.
*compatible with iPhone 16 or newer
Any chance we can organize them alphabetically, and any chance we can get the labels back in the dock?