How to Customize Application Icons on iPhone (iOS 14)
September 21, 2021
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This is a complete guide on how to customize application icons on iPhone (iOS 14). Make your iPhone home screen more attractive.
iOS 14 was officially released this September and has many features that are not in the version of iOS 14, one of which is the custom application icon. You can customize the icon as you wish. Curious how to do it?
Here is a full tutorial to help you beautify your iPhone. Here is the explanation.
How to Customize Application Icons on iPhone (iOS 14)
1. Open the Shortcuts application on your iPhone, which is usually already available if you are already using iOS 14.
2. After the application opens, press the plus (+) key combination in the upper right corner
3. Select Add Action, then Scripting
4. Next is open the app and press Select. Select the application you want to change, for example Instagram, and select Next in the top right corner
5. Name the shortcut, for example Instagram, then Done
6. After the shortcut appears, press (…) on the name of the Instagram shortcut
7. Press (…) again to display the shortcut details and select Add to Home Screen
8. Press the shortcut icon for about 3 seconds and the Select Photo option will appear. You can search the internet for the icon you want to use. Then add and you’re done. Yes, you can customize your Instagram icon. Please check your home screen page, it should work.
The final and optional step is to remove the original Instagram icon by placing it in the app library.
How to add apps to the app library
Press and hold the application icon you are removing for about 3 seconds. Here, for example, we are removing the Instagram application. Choose Remove App and Move to App Library. Remember, your application will not be deleted here. You can restore the icon as normal by opening the app library.
The trick is to slide or slide your screen all the way to the end, for example the number of slides on your home screen is 5. The app library menu is on slide 6. After successfully opening the app library, find the application that you deleted from the home screen, for example Instagram. Press and hold the Instagram icon and select Add to Home Screen.
So custom application icons on iOS 14 that you need to know about. Hurry up to beautify your home screen this way. Don’t forget to share it! So that your friends can also find out about it.
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