It has been 17 years for the reason that iPhone was launched and Apple is now—solely now!—permitting you to place app icons the place you need them. When iOS 18 is launched this fall, you’ll be capable to put icons and widgets in any location on your property display screen, leaving as a lot house between them as you want.
They’ll nonetheless be organized on a grid, however now not will app icons have to fill each obtainable grid house ranging from the higher left. Need to depart some empty house and put a number of icons down on the underside close to the house row? Go proper forward! Wonderful, we all know.
Right here’s how one can rearrange your app icons and widgets to your coronary heart’s content material in iOS 18.
On the house display screen, faucet and maintain anyplace besides on an app or widget for 2 seconds. The icons will start to jiggle, and also you’ll see a bit (-) mark within the higher left of every. That is your property display screen edit mode.
When on this edit mode, faucet and maintain an icon to pull it anyplace you need. If you wish to transfer it to a different dwelling display screen, simply drag it to the sting of your display screen. That is the best way you rearrange your app icons in each fashionable model of iOS, and simply as earlier than, you may create folders by dragging apps on high of one another.
What’s new is that whenever you put an app someplace with some house between it and the apps above, it stays there reasonably than leaping as much as the primary empty spot beginning with the top-left. So you may place your icons round a photograph or make a easy design.
Seize and transfer a number of icons
Additionally new in iOS 18 is the flexibility to maneuver a number of icons without delay. When within the dwelling display screen edit mode with icons jiggling, faucet and maintain one app icon, then with one other finger begin tapping different icons to “group” them collectively.
You’ll see a quantity in a blue circle within the higher proper of your app icon to point out what number of you will have grabbed in your stack.
Now simply drag the icon the place you need it to go and launch, and your complete stack of icons will transfer together with it.