Default iphone home screen layout ios 14

Since the release of Apple's iOS 14 in 2020, you've had the ability to customize your iPhone's home screen. So instead of using the boring default design that everyone else has, you can create home-screen themes filled with your own unique app icons and widgets.

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How to change your app icons on your iPhone
Customize the widgets on your iPhone home screen
How to reset the home screen layout on iPhones running iOS 14 and older versions
How to reset the home screen layout on iPhones running iOS 15 and newer versions
How do I get my iPhone Home Screen back to the original?
Can you change iPhone Home Screen layout?

When paired with a custom wallpaper, personalized themes can create quite an aesthetic effect. Also, with Focus Mode you can design completely unique home screens for different locations or times of the day.

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Setting up these custom widgets and app icons requires two iPhone apps -- one lesser-known native app and one third-party app that's free in the App Store. Read on to learn how to customize your home screen.

For more, learn how to optimize your iPhone's performance and seven ways to Android-ify your iPhone.

How to change your app icons on your iPhone

The applications that live on the home screen have their own logos, but you can use a native iOS feature to change the look of any app icon:

Open the Shortcuts app on your iPhone (it's already preinstalled).
Tap the plus icon in the top right corner.
Select Add Action.
In the search bar, type Open app and select the Open App action.
Next, tap App and select the app you want to customize.
Then tap the downward-facing arrow next to Open App at the top.
From the menu, tap Add to Home Screen.
Where it says Home Screen Name and Icon, rename the shortcut to anything you'd like.
Next, go into your web browser of choice and find a new icon image. You can search for something like "Facebook icon aesthetic." When you find an image you like, save it to your photos.
Go back to the Shortcuts app and tap the icon under Home Screen Name and Icon. Select Choose Photo and tap on the image you just saved. You can zoom in or out on the image. Tap Choose.
Finally, hit Add.

Now you have a customized app on your phone (it's actually a bookmark). You can delete the original app from your home screen, but you'll easily be able to find it in your App Library.

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Customize the widgets on your iPhone home screen

Apps aren't the only think you can customize. With the help of this third-party app, you can also add a little flavor to your widgets:

Download the Widgetsmith app on your iPhone.
In the app, select the size of the widget you'd like to customize -- your options are small, medium and large.
Tap the widget to customize it. You can change the font and colors. Go back once you're done and tap Save.
Go to your home screen and hold and press down anywhere on the screen.
Once you're in edit mode, tap the plus icon in the top left corner and search for Widgetsmith. Tap the icon.
Select the widget size you'd like to add to your home screen and tap Add Widget.
You can change the widget by pressing down on the app and selecting Edit Widget. That's all! Now your home screen has different-size icons for a customized look.

You can create widgets for certain features and applications, including photos, time, date, Weather (paid), Health, battery, Calendar, Reminders, tides (paid), and astronomy.

How do you reset the home screen layout of an iPhone to look just exactly the way it was when you bought the phone?

Well…

There’s a way you or anyone can do that, and trust me, it’s pretty easy.

So, if you’re recently messed around with the home screen layout of your iPhone, maybe you’ve moved some icons about, added some new widgets, or, you’re just having difficulties finding some app icons probably because they’ve been moved to the new app libraries on iOS 14, and you just needed to take things back to the way they used to be when you just got the phone;

Well, it’s a good thing Apple provided its users a way they can do that, and today, I’m gonna show you exactly how it’s been done for both iPhones running iOS 14 and older versions, and iPhones running the new iOS 15 and later versions.

So, having said that, and without further ado, let’s get started. #enjoy…

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How to reset the home screen layout on iPhones running iOS 14 and older versions

Follow these steps to reset the home screen layout on your iPhone running iOS 14 and older versions of the Apple iOS.

Go to your iPhone main settings menu, and go to “General” settings.
Scroll to the bottom of the page, and tap on the “Reset” option.
From the list of options shown to you, select or tap on “Reset Home Screen Layout“.
Tap “Reset Home Screen” from the prompt that will be shown to you.
And just like that, your iPhone’s home screen will be reset back to its default settings.
And when you go back to your home screen, you should see the new changes.

Easy peasy right?

Well, that’s for how to do it on iOS 14 and older versions of the Apple iOS mobile operating, because on iOS 15 and above versions, things are a little bit different, but it still largely remains unchanged.

So, here’s how to do the same thing on iPhones running iOS 15 and newer versions.

How to reset the home screen layout on iPhones running iOS 15 and newer versions

Once again, go to your iPhone’s main settings menu, and go to “General” settings.
Swipe to the bottom of the page until you see the “Transfer or Reset iPhone” setting option.
Tap on it to open it.
From the new page, tap on “Reset“, and from the list of options shown to you, select “Reset Home Screen Layout“.
And for the last time, tap on “Reset Home Screen” from the prompt shown to you, and your iPhone’s home screen will be reset.
You can now go back to your home screen to see the new changes.

And that’s how you get to reset your home screens for both iOS 14 and below versions, and iOS 15 and above versions of the Apple mobile operating systems on your iPhones.

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How do I get my iPhone Home Screen back to the original?

To do this, just tap on the Settings app, then tap General, and then tap Reset. On the Reset screen, you'll see Reset Home Screen Layout. Tap that button and then tap Reset Home Screen, and you'll be back to your default layout.

Can you change iPhone Home Screen layout?

You can change the layout of your Home Screen—move apps and widgets around or drag them to other Home Screen pages, temporarily hide Home Screen pages, change where new apps get downloaded, and more.

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