iOS 18: Learn how to put app icons, widgets, and folders wherever you need

It has been 17 years because the iPhone was launched and Apple is now—solely now!—permitting you to place app icons the place you need them. When iOS 18 is launched this fall, you’ll be capable to put icons and widgets in any location on your property display, leaving as a lot area between them as you want.

They’ll nonetheless be organized on a grid, however not will app icons have to fill each out there grid area ranging from the higher left. Need to go away some empty area and put a number of icons down on the underside close to the house row? Go proper forward! Wonderful, we all know.

Right here’s how one can rearrange your app icons and widgets to your coronary heart’s content material in iOS 18.

On the house display, faucet and maintain wherever besides on an app or widget for 2 seconds. The icons will start to jiggle, and also you’ll see slightly (-) mark within the higher left of every. That is your property display edit mode.

When on this edit mode, faucet and maintain an icon to tug it wherever you need. If you wish to transfer it to a different residence display, simply drag it to the sting of your display. That is the way in which you rearrange your app icons in each fashionable model of iOS, and simply as earlier than, you’ll be able to create folders by dragging apps on prime of one another.

What’s new is that whenever you put an app someplace with some area between it and the apps above, it stays there fairly than leaping as much as the primary empty spot beginning with the top-left. So you’ll be able to place your icons round a photograph or make a easy design.

Seize and transfer a number of icons

Additionally new in iOS 18 is the flexibility to maneuver a number of icons directly. When within the residence display edit mode with icons jiggling, faucet and maintain one app icon, then with one other finger begin tapping different icons to “group” them collectively.

You’ll see a quantity in a blue circle within the higher proper of your app icon to indicate what number of you’ve grabbed in your stack.

Now simply drag the icon the place you need it to go and launch, and your complete stack of icons will transfer together with it.