Here's how to change your app icons on your iOS 16 iPhone using Shortcuts. Your home-screen aesthetic is about to get SO much better.

One limitation is changing app icons. While you can easily set different app icons on Android or even change the whole launcher itself, this process isn't very straightforward on iPhone.

Blank custom shortcuts can also be added if you are dissatisfied with the icons available for your selection in the app.

There’s no option to change the actual icons used by your apps on the home screen. Instead, you have to create app-opening shortcuts using the Shortcuts app. Doing this gives you the ability to ...

To do so, open the Shortcuts app on your iPhone (it also works on the iPad) and tap the + icon in the top-right corner of the screen to create a new Shortcut.

Changing your app icons is fairly simple, but there’s an important caveat to note. If you chance your app icons, you’ll have to go via the Shortcuts app whenever you open an app with a custom ...

Type Open App into it #5: Tap Open App. #6: Tap Choose. This will bring up a list of all the apps you. have installed. Pick the one you want to open with a new icon. #7: Here I picked the DJI Fly app.

One app available to create custom icons for your apps is called Iconical. Available on the App Store for $2.99, Iconical supports 85,000 apps, which means you have a lot of art projects ahead of you.

Follow these steps on an iPhone or iPad running the latest build of iOS 18 if you want to disable the notifications for your shortcuts: Launch the Shortcuts app on your iPhone.

Customizing your iPhone goes beyond moving app icons. In iOS 18 you can change what color they are too.