It has been 17 years because the 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 have the ability to put icons and widgets in any location on your house display, leaving as a lot area 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 area ranging from the higher left. Wish to go away some empty area and put a couple of icons down on the underside close to the house row? Go proper forward! Superb, 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, faucet and maintain anyplace besides on an app or widget for 2 seconds. The icons will start to jiggle, and also you’ll see somewhat (-) mark within the higher left of every. That is your house display 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, simply drag it to the sting of your display. That is the best way you rearrange your app icons in each fashionable model of iOS, and simply as earlier than, you’ll be able to create folders by dragging apps on prime of one another.
What’s new is that while you put an app someplace with some area between it and the apps above, it stays there relatively than leaping as much as the primary empty spot beginning with the top-left. So you’ll be able to 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 power to maneuver a number of icons directly. When within the dwelling display 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’ve 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.