To get even more control over your iPhone, learn how to lock and hide apps. Add Widgets to Your Home Screen Widgets let you interact with or glean information from apps without having to open them.

1. On the iPhone's lock screen, touch and hold anywhere on the display until you see the Customize button. You'll need to ...

Tap the icon left of center in the menu across the bottom of your screen labeled Dark. Apple's first-party apps, like Messages, Safari and more, will now have an almost-black background.

Now tap the + icon to add a new Lock Screen control; Tap Done in the top right corner to set your new controls; For those with an iPhone 16, 16 Pro, or 15 Pro with an Action button, ...

I don’t understand why (for both the Home screen and now Control Center) they don’t simply have Cancel/Done buttons. The icons moving around in unexpected ways is bad enough, but the real ...

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 ...

You can change the icon size on an iPhone, but it won’t change how many icons fit on the screen. The feature is meant to simply make everything larger for easier reading.

With iOS 18, Apple has expanded the capabilities of FaceTime to include remote screen control. This feature is part of SharePlay, which was initially introduced in iOS 15.1 for content sharing.

I want to be able to set my Lock Screen clock, widget, and control defaults. When I try out a new wallpaper, I want the defaults I choose once to be the starting point for each new Lock Screen.

Luckily, in iOS 18, you can exert more control over how your apps look, including the option to change app icon colors and how widgets are displayed. To customize your app icon colors: ...