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A new report claims Apple will allow for greater Home Screen customization in iOS 18. One of the upgrades will allow you to place app icons anywhere on the screen.
You will have the flexibility to create blank rows and columns, though the icons will still snap to a grid.
iOS 18 might fix a major Home Screen customization limitation
Apple has added several Home Screen customization options, starting with iOS 14’s release in 2020, such as Home Screen widgets and App Library. However, you cannot place app shortcuts anywhere on your iPhone Home Screen or have blank rows or columns.
If the MacRumors source is accurate, this should change with iOS 18 later this year. This should fix one of the significant customization limitations of the iPhone’s Home Screen.
The report is light on other details but claims that iOS 18 could bring the “biggest Home Screen revamp in several years.” This should make tweaking your iPhone’s Home Screen a lot more fun.
Biggest iOS update since its inception
Bloomberg‘s Mark Gurman was the first to report this change in the next iOS release. As per him, iOS 18 is apparently shaping up to become the biggest iOS update since the original iPhone.
In his Power On newsletter, Mark Gurman claims Apple will bundle a bunch of AI features in the next iOS release that will be useful in daily life. These on-device AI enhancements will differ from iOS 18’s rumored cloud-based generative AI features. Apple will purportedly team up with Google or ChatGPT to power the latter.
Gurman believes visionOS 2.0, codenamed Constellation, will drop this year. Apple might possibly showcase the next major OS release for its mixed reality headset at WWDC24 alongside iOS 18 and watchOS 11. The latter will be a minor release.
Apple’s yearly developer conference should take place in June this year.