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With iOS 18 , Apple overhauled the Home Screen , introducing design changes that allow for more customization and personalization. You can put icons where you want, change their size, and give them new colors, plus you can hide apps and swap out your Lock Screen buttons. This guide highlights everything new coming to the iOS 18 Home Screen and Lock Screen.
With iOS 18, you can rearrange app icons and widgets on your Home Screen and app pages with space between them, providing a wealth of new layout options. Apple stuck with a grid system so you can only move app icons within the grid locations, but an icon can be placed anywhere in the grid with empty space around it. That sounds complicated, but with iOS 17 , if you added a new app to your Home Screen, it would automatically go to the next open spot.
In iOS 18, you can choose where to put it. You can have app icon-sized spaces between apps, full empty rows, and full empty columns. You can't put icons and widgets in places with uneven spacing because of the invisible grid limitation, so keep that in mind.
You can put a single app in the middle of a page, have a row of apps at the top and a row of apps at the bottom, create a column of apps, and more. Apple created this design to allow you to place apps and widgets around wallpapers and arrange them into more useful layouts. Here's how to move your icons: You can make your app icons bigger in iOS 18 by removing the app names.
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