It’s nice and convenient to be able to create icons for the most important people in your life and see their profile pictures on the home screen. The shortcut lets you choose between phone numbers and ...

Here's how to redesign the home screen to personalize your phone. PC hardware is nice, but it’s not much use without innovative software. I’ve been reviewing software for PCMag since 2008 ...

Transform your phone’s home screen in 5 minutes with these tips for organization, custom icons, widgets, and a sleek layout.

On earlier versions of iOS, you could choose from Default, Dark, Automatic or Tinted icon customization styles. Tinted mode would render your icon with a highlight gradient color on a dark, near black ...

Where it says Home Screen Name and Icon, rename the shortcut to anything ... Now you have a customized app on your phone (it's actually a bookmark). You can delete the original app from your ...

If the apps on your phone are set to update automatically ... it’s easy to customize your iPhone’s app icons. Tap Add to Home Screen to create a new shortcut for the app.

You can change a particular icon or the entire set available for your Android. Along the way, you also learn how to change the phone's default home screen. Changing your Android icons takes two ...

Of course, the convenience of this is kind of predicated on the assumption that you know what every single one of these little icons mean. While this information isn't secret per se, your phone ...

Furthermore, the chosen shape only applies to the home screen, app drawer, and folders, meaning icons in the Recents ...

The iPhone operating system doesn't include a feature for locking app icons on your home screen, but if your phone is jailbroken you can make this tweak by installing a free app from Cydia.

While many third-party Android launchers offer extensive customization options, the stock launcher on Google Pixel phones is more ... options for changing home screen icon shapes, while the ...

Google giveth and Google taketh away. And sometimes, Google realizes it made a mistake, and giveth again, at least in the case of custom home screen icons for Pixels.