Smartphones are capable of doing a lot of things that older mobile phones were never capable of. That's not at all surprising given that the modern devices are essentially tiny powerful computers that ...

Apple introduced many of these changes with iOS 18 in 2024, and iOS 26 brought a new app color scheme to your device. Zach began writing for CNET in November, 2021 after writing for a broadcast news ...

Khamosh Pathak is a freelance tech journalist with over 13 years of experience writing online. An accounting graduate, he turned his interest in writing and technology into a career. He holds a ...

With iOS 14, Apple began to open the floodgates for software customization on the iPhone. For the first time, you could add widgets to the home screen and even change app icons to custom ones without ...

I am completely baffled by how this feature is suppose to work. I'm still seeing the same behavior that was in iOS 17 and before, where the OS will just move things around to try and fill in space. I ...

Your iOS 18 and iPadOS 18 home screens will soon be able to match your mood with the new dark mode additions. Blake has over a decade of experience writing for the web, with a focus on mobile phones, ...

With iOS 18, Apple is giving us unprecedented (for Apple) control over the layout of our home screens. A big part of that is customizable icon colors. That’s right, icons can have separate light and ...

If you've just downloaded the iOS 26 public beta on your iPhone, the first thing you'll notice is the new Liquid Glass design overhaul, which adopts translucent elements throughout the system ...

You’ve probably seen some of the beautiful custom iPhone Home Screens on social media. Some people go to great lengths to creatively customize their Home Screen. You can go for a specific theme and ...

In iOS 18, currently in beta, Apple has broadened the customization options for the Home Screen on iPhone, and thanks to a new setting it is now possible to make app icons and widgets bigger by hiding ...