How to clean up home screen on iphone

I'm an obsessive home screen organizer. I've always been frustrated that it's not easy to put my icons exactly where I want them on my iPhone's home screen. Sometimes I want blank areas where Apple would otherwise stick an app. When this happens, apps can be cluttered all over the place. I like them nice and centered on the screen, so I searched for a way to do it.

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Take a screenshot of your wallpaper
Now use a tool named iEmpty
Create invisible icons
Place and Repeat
How to Rearrange Home Screen Pages
How to Delete Home Screen Pages
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What is the easiest way to organize iPhone apps?
How do I declutter my Home Screen?
How do I clean my Home Screen apps?

I found a pretty easy solution. It works by creating invisible icons that blend right in with the background, allowing me to make a much more organized and cleaner-looking home screen. You can see an example in the picture above, where I've removed a row of icons from above and below the rest of my apps.

If you're like me and want to have icons centered on your screen, or want to customize exactly where each one is, you can use this guide to do that all right from your iPhone.

Here's what you need to do.

Take a screenshot of your wallpaper

Long tap on an app until they all start wiggling.
Now scroll across your iPhone screen until you come to a blank page.
Now press the power button and the home button at the same time.
Your iPhone will save a screenshot to your photo gallery. We'll come back to it in a minute.

Now use a tool named iEmpty

Go to this website on your iPhone. It's a tool named iEmpty, and it's how we're going to make the invisible icons.
Click on "Create blank icons."
Tap "add" under the upload section.
Upload the screenshot you took in the first step.

Create invisible icons

Now you'll see a grid of your phone's home screen on the page.
To create a blank icon, you need to tell iEmpty where you want to place it so that the icon can match the background of that spot. So pick a spot.
Once you've clicked on a spot, you'll be directed to a new page with an icon generated by iEmpty.
Click the share menu on the bottom of the screen.
Click "add to home screen." (This will create a bookmark of the page as a home screen shortcut, which is how iEmpty accomplishes this.)
Don't change any of the text in the boxes it gives you, just click "add" in the top right.

Place and Repeat

Long tap on the new icon until it starts wiggling. Drag it into its place, and it should blend right in with your background.
Repeat this process for as many blank icons as you want.

That's it! Whether you want to create a blank top row like I did, add a gap somewhere in your app list, or just leave a filler space, you now have the tools to do it.

In iOS 14, Apple lets you disable individual Home Screen pages thanks to the App Library, which is available to keep your apps better organized. However, not everyone gets on with the App Library, and it's not possible to rearrange the order of your ‌‌Home Screen‌‌ pages, nor can you delete a page outright rather than merely disabling it. In ‌iOS 15‌, though, you ‌can do both. Here's how it works.

How to Rearrange Home Screen Pages

Touch and hold a space on the ‌Home Screen‌ to enter jiggle mode.
Tap the row of dots representing your ‌Home Screen‌ pages.
In the ‌Home Screen‌ grid that appears, touch and drag a page to rearrange it in relation to your other pages. The others will move to make way in response to your drag action.
Tap Done in the top-right corner of the screen when you're happy with the new arrangement, then tap Done again to exit jiggle mode.

How to Delete Home Screen Pages

Touch and hold a space on the ‌Home Screen‌ to enter jiggle mode.
Tap the row of dots representing your ‌Home Screen‌ pages.
In the ‌Home Screen‌ grid that appears, tap the tick under the page that you want to delete.
Tap the minus (-) icon in the top-left corner of the page to delete it.
Tap Done in the top-right corner of the screen when you're finished, then tap Done again to exit jiggle mode.

When you delete a ‌Home Screen‌ page, the apps that were on the page are not deleted and remain in the App Library. You will have to drag them out of the App Library if you want to re-add them to the ‌Home Screen‌.

Alongside ‌iOS 15‌, Apple also introduced iPadOS 15, macOS Monterey, watchOS 8, and tvOS 15 at this year's WWDC. The new software for Apple's devices will be available for general release in the fall. If you missed WWDC, be sure to catch up on all of Apple's announcements by watching our nine-minute recap video, or check out our dedicated OS guides in the roundup menu at the top of the site.

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