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 ...

The iPhone home screen is more customizable than ever before. Adding and resizing widgets or changing how app icons look is ...

In iOS 13, Apple brought Dark Mode to the iPhone. At the time, OLED displays were already part of the iPhone lineup, bringing a perfect black background to some apps. Now, with iOS 18, Apple revamped ...

The Pixel Launcher is adding an icon shape customization feature in a future Android release. The feature isn’t live yet in Android 16 Beta 3, but we managed to enable it to show what the feature’s ...

Many of these changes were introduced with iOS 18 in 2024, but iOS 26 introduces a new app color scheme. Zach began writing for CNET in November, 2021 after writing for a broadcast news station in his ...

Good news! With iOS 18 you can finally get rid of the app icon labels and expand your icons to fill in that extra space. If you want that “big icons, no labels” look, here’s how you do it.

With iOS 26, Apple's introducing its biggest design update in more than a decade. Leading that overhaul is a new Liquid Glass interface that adds a translucent, layered look to on-screen elements on ...

The iPhone home screen gets a brand new look with iOS 26, thanks to a visual overhaul featuring a brand new set of icons for all of Apple’s apps, as well as glass and reflection effects throughout.

Discover iOS 26 home screen ideas & customization tips to transform your iPhone with vibrant wallpapers, dynamic widgets, and sleek designs.

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, ...