iPhone iOS 14: How to Customize you iPhone apps and home screen in iOS 14

iPhone iOS 14 Updates: iOS 14 coming with a collection of new features, but one got everyone’s attention is the suite of new home screen customization features. It became a lot easier adding the widgets and managing multiple home screens.

They also said that there are some third parties going to involve, which includes the popular Widgetsmith application, but in this, we are strictly talking about the official ways to customize your iOS home screen.

iPhone iOS 14: Widgets Galore

In the early times, the developers tended to add more and more handy widgets to their apps, where Apple owns apps app which includes Clock, Batteries, Fitness, and Files which are almost perfect to get the information at a glance.

For finding the list of widgets that are already installed, you just hold iPhone’s home screen and put it in the jiggle mode, and look for the + sign on the top left. Then tap the widget you want you would be able to pick multiple styles with different layouts and sizes.

Don’t miss trying the smart stack

The Smart Stack is not based on the single application but it offers information panels which are to the users at a glance and can flick through with just a single finger scrolling it up or down.

Tap and hold your finger on the Smart Stack widget and then select the “Edit Stack” option, now you can be able to adjust the app’s order just by dragging and reordering.

There is also an option of Smart Rotate, which suggests what to display based on your usage and preferences.

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Hidden

After installing multiple apps and then storing them in the folder so that they would not cluttering your home screen and making the screen clean and tidy, in this new version it is much easier, to push the apps in the background which are not really important.

This can be done with the help of the new app library, the place where one can find installed apps on your phone. App library can be easily found just by swiping to the right of your home screen.

Choosing home screens

There is an option, where one can tick on the desired home screens and can untick the ones which one wants to hide. One can re-enable those whenever wanted, and the hidden apps can be found in the app library.

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