Mark Gurman reported over the weekend that will be one of the new features we can expect to see in . On the face of it, that seems a relatively minor cosmetic change, but I think it does open the door to using it in rather an impactful way ..
. Gurman that in addition to being able to freely position apps on the home screen – something we’ve long been expecting – we’ll also be able to change the colors of app icons. Another fun improvement (unrelated to AI) will be the revamped iPhone home screen.
That will let users change the color of app icons and put them wherever they want. For instance, you can make all your social icons blue or finance-related ones green — and they won’t need to be placed in the standard grid that has existed since day one in 2007. There are a number of reasons we might want to do that, with simple aesthetic preferences the most basic of them.
Some people use Shortcuts to effectively replace app icons with custom ones, and there was something of a fashion a few years ago for having – including . Another, as Gurman mentions, is categorizing apps – and it’s this one I think could be used to influence the ways in which we use our phones. There has been growing concern about excessive smartphone use over the past few years, with many of us taking steps to reduce our usage.
One of the most effective steps I’ve ever taken personally was to . I did that back in 2018, and have retained these settings ever since. In terms of my life balance m.
