
Also note that when you tap on one of these app icons, it won’t launch the app right away.That means if you want to make your home screen look tidy and only show customized app icons, you’ll need to move all the real apps to a folder on another home screen to hide them.You can verify this by finding the app you created the shortcut for and seeing if it still has its original icon.
Instead, what you’ve done is create a shortcut to that app with its own custom icon and placed that shortcut on your home screen.
You aren’t changing the app’s true icon at all. However, there are a few more things to understand by using this method to change your app icons: Once you’ve gone through all these steps, you’ll see the new app icon on your home screen. Tap “Done” and return to your iPhone’s home screen. In the upper-right corner, tap the “Add” button. In this case, you’ll want to name it the same as the name of the app you are creating the icon for. Next, tap the “New Shortcut” text next to it to name the shortcut. Under the “Home Screen Name and Icon” header, you’ll see your custom app icon. Zoom on the photo to crop it if you wish, then tap “Choose.”. From the camera roll image picker that pops up, tap the photo you want to use for the icon image. In the pop-up menu, tap “Choose Photo.”. Under the “Home Screen Name and Icon” header, tap the new shortcut’s generic icon. On the Details screen, tap “Add to Home Screen.”. Back in the New Shortcuts screen, tap the three dots (…) in the upper-right corner.
In the Choose App pop-up, tap the app you want to customize the icon for.In the New Shortcuts screen that appears, tap the blue “Choose” link.Under the Actions heading, tap “Open App.”.Tap the search field in the pop-up menu that appears and search for “open app.”.Tap the + button in the upper-right corner of the screen.Now here’s how you get custom app icons on your iPhone: Once you have images you want to use as app icons, make sure they are saved to your iPhone’s camera roll.
You can find app icon image sets by searching for them online-or you can literally make your own using images from your iPhone’s camera roll.
A collection of images you want to use as app icons. This comes on the iPhone as default, but if you’ve deleted it you’ll need to redownload it from the App Store again. An iPhone running iOS 14 or later (obviously). If you want to customize your app icons in iOS 14, you’ll need a few things first: Rather, you can apply them via a workaround using the Shortcuts app, which is an Apple app included in iOs 14. But these custom app icons aren’t a built-in feature in iOS 14.