AI is one thing (or two, really, since it can mean Artificial Intelligence or Apple Intelligence, as we found out yesterday), but have you noticed how many new personalization features Apple has built into iOS 18? It’s almost as if it wanted to finally give people some Android-like choices after many, many years of “we know better.”
So now you can move the Home screen icons wherever you want and even… please sit down for this – have empty spaces. On the home screen. Steve Jobs is probably turning in his grave. But wait, there’s more! The intrepid people over there MacRumors I discovered in the first iOS 18 developer beta that you can also hide app labels from Home screens.
So now you can look at just the app icons, without the annoying text underneath telling you what an app is. If you enable this feature, the icons will grow to cover the space where the text labels used to be.
If you’re a developer running the new iOS 18 beta and haven’t figured it out yet, here’s how to enable it. Go to the home screen, tap and hold an empty area, tap Edit in the top left corner, tap Customize, then tap the Large button, then tap anywhere on the home screen to save your changes. That’s all. Now you will no longer have any written clue as to which app it is.
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