The iOS 17 app update will let you add a home screen widget for a contact. You can log your last mode of interaction — call, text, in-person meeting, or email — with them through the widget ...

As part of Apple’s Liquid Glass redesign, announced at WWDC 2025, the new iOS 26 will rework some native Apple features and apps. The Lock Screen and Home Screen are getting updates that align ...

iOS 14 adds a new App Library view for organizing all of your apps. Apps are automatically organized in the App Library, and you don’t have to keep all of the icons on your actual home screen view.

Shortly after the release of iOS 12 in 2018, Apple rolled out its own built-in screen time tracking tools and controls. But the tech giant then began a widespread crackdown on third-party apps ...

Home Screen web app shortcuts will also launch in the user’s default third party app now, not just Safari. The design of fallback web app shortcut icons is also changing starting with iOS 16.4.

Liquid Glass. Apple’s bringing an all-new design to iOS and all its other operating systems. The featured element is something it calls Liquid Glass, which means interface elements look almost ...

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 ...

New in iOS 16 is the ability to add widgets to your Lock Screen. We've curated the top third-party apps that have already added support for these highly-visible widgets that you can download now.

You might think app design is app design, whether the software is being developed for iOS or Android. But, in fact, creating highly polished, elegant-looking apps is simply easier to do when ...

In iOS 18, currently in beta, Apple has broadened the customization options for the Home Screen on iPhone, and thanks to a new setting it is now possible to make app icons and widgets bigger by ...