Apple introduced many of these changes with iOS 18 in 2024, and iOS 26 brought a new app color scheme to your device.

After finally giving in to custom app icons on the home screen in iOS 14, Apple is back this year with further customization in iOS 16 — this time for the iPhone's lock screen. In iOS 16, iPhone users ...

Apart from the much-ballyhooed (and delayed) Apple Intelligence, a big change to home screen customization and app icon placement is one of iOS 18’s flagship features, alongside an overhauled Control ...

Update: Thanks to MacStories reader Thomas, I was able to remove the need to upload image assets to Dropbox. The shortcut is now much faster to run (takes about 5 seconds instead of 20) and doesn’t ...

Apple has released iOS 18 to the masses, with the biggest feature of the update being Apple Intelligence. But the update also includes new customization tools, such as the long-awaited ability to ...

Apple has always made the iPhone's display user friendly. Depending upon your specific sight needs, you can invert the colors on the phone – making it easier to read the screen if you have low vision ...

If you’re looking for new ways to give your iOS 14 home screen a custom aesthetic, the Pastel color palettes application has been updated with new home screen widgets. This allows you to add custom ...

Apple in iOS 14 redesigned the Home Screen for the first time in a long time, introducing an App Library that lets you hide apps, widgets that can be placed among apps, and more. This guide walks ...

For months, my Lenovo Yoga C940 laptop seemed to be playing tricks on me. One minute the display would be pleasantly bright, but switching to anything with a dark background caused a gradual drop in ...

Apple is making a change to how app shortcuts work in the next release of the iOS 14 operating system. In iOS 14.3 beta 2, the Shortcuts app will now no longer open when you tap on an app shortcut on ...

This app comes in a small 1.6 MB package, which you can install easily as a portable application. No additional drivers/software are required. Once installed, the app ...

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