you want to see how to quickly and easily make your phone look like this or this or this and just
keep on watching what's up everyone it's Adrian Finch and welcome to 2023 where this little thing
in your pocket has never been so customizable we literally do everything on our phones from Health
tracking to banking to emailing and even selling products this little computer can basically run
your life for you but just like anything else in our environment when your phone becomes cluttered
and disorganized it can negatively affect your productivity your mood and even your physical
health so in today's video I'm going to show you seven aesthetically pleasing ways to organize your
iPhone apps that'll maximize productivity minimize clutter and overall help you live a happier
healthier life okay so the first way is one of the more tedious but more aesthetically pleasing ways
to organize your apps and that is by color not only does this just look awesome but there are
actual psychological benefits as well color coding has actually been found to enhance organization
and memory retention because basically when information is color coded it becomes easier for
our brain to sort and process and anything that helps our brains work less hard is a great thing
so here we've just taken all of the apps and color coded them you could do this by Page you could do
it just rainbow however you want and pro tip for actually any of the strategies mentioned in this
video I Really highly recommend hiding any of the apps that you don't really need to access
often and just keep them in the app Library not cluttering your screen so to do that you're just
going to force touch the app and then click remove app but instead of deleting you're just going to
say remove from home screen and then all the apps that you've removed from your home screen can be
found in your app Library okay the next method is one of my absolute favorites and I feel like
it's not talked about that often and that is to use invisible icons the point of this method is
to really create a more minimal kind of clean home screen to look at because if you remember
from my decluttering video clutter equals stress and stress equals brain not functioning we don't
want that but you can see how nice and clean this looks and it really can only be achieved by using
invisible icons so let me show you how to do this back in the day you could use this website called
makeover.io if you guys remember but apparently that website has ceased to function so I found
another one that is an app called MD blank home screen widgets you can download that app for
free and then how it works is you screenshot your background and then you're gonna upload it to the
app and it creates blank widgets for you by kind of using your background as the widget it'll try
to get you to buy the pro version by the way but don't be fooled you can click the X in the upper
left-handed Corner that one almost got me I was like oh dang it it's not free it is free just
click the X it'll do this a lot so let's just say that I want this photo to be my background and yes
that is me in a blonde wig to do this from the lock screen you're going to want to force touch
and then click on add new wallpaper you're going to select the photo that you want as the wallpaper
and then click on the customize the home screen and if you want the blur to be off you can just
click on that blur button and then you can see the photo actually showing up we're going to click
done so then basically we want to screenshot the wallpaper and to do this you you'll go over to the
very last page Force touch and swipe over one more time screenshot that and then we're gonna go back
into this app and actually select that screenshot there we go and we're going to click add widget
and the only one available for free is this one with text so we're just going to click add with
that and then basically you can actually delete the text or you can leave text if you want but I'm
going to delete the text and put a space that way it kind of just stays blank and then you're going
to go back to your home page Force touch click on the plus button at the top to add a widget
now this is the weird part when you go to add a widget the app doesn't have a name so you're just
going to click on that blue square though and then we're going to select the large one and that's how
we add that so normally you can't actually put apps with a huge space on top like that so I just
think that looks really cool now if you want to edit this widget or change the location you can
just force touch on that click on edit widget this is where you can pick the position top or bottom
but let's say I want to add like a medium widget I would just force touch again click on ADD go
back to the blue icon click on the medium one add the widget and then do the same thing basically
just choose the position if I want middle and then drag it to the place you want it boom click done
and obviously that's not an ideal Arrangement but I think you get the gist you can do so many cool
things with this like have a two-tone colored kind of wallpaper and have all your apps to the
right or the left and things like that but I'll save all the million ways to customize
your phones for the next video so the next way to organize your app is just by using only folders
So in theory every app you use would fall into a category and you can just group them all together
into one folder for that category this is also a pretty clean simple way to organize your apps
everything's just grouped together nicely it also leaves room for any widgets you might
want and you can choose whether you want like one solid page or multiple pages and it's super
customizable no matter what I do always recommend putting your most used apps on the first page but
you could organize those folders alphabetically or you could title them using emojis and color
code them or really organize it however you want which is cool I'll also give you a fun
little customization hack while we're here okay so if you like the functionality of folders but
you like the look of kind of one solid icon then you can actually create a custom folder like this
using the shortcuts app so to do this you're going to go to the shortcuts app and you should already
have this on your iPhone it comes with the phone you're going to click on the plus button at the
top click on ADD action you can either click on scripting or you can just search choose from menu
and then where it says prompt you're going to type in what you kind of want it to ask you
I'm just gonna for example do a folder called listen and it'll be like all my music things
that I would listen to so I'm gonna say what do you want to listen to now where it says one
or two you'll write in the names of the apps that you could open so I'll do Spotify music
and then let's add another one called podcasts so then what you're gonna do is add basically
the action of opening an app so just click on this search button type open app click on that
and then you're gonna drag this underneath each prompt so let's do this three times
okay so then you're gonna click on this app button and actually find the Spotify app music
okay so then to actually add it to your home screen you're gonna click on this box in the
lower corner click on add to home screen and then here's where you actually get to customize the
name of the icon and what the picture is so I'm gonna call this listen then you're gonna tap on
the little icon you can either take a photo choose a photo or choose a file I'm going to choose a
photo I actually don't have a photo in mind for this one but let's just pretend we're gonna use
this flower photo click on ADD and then click on done and if you notice here is the icon and
then when I tap on it it asks me what do I want to listen to I'm going to click on Spotify and it'll
open Spotify or if you want to use an icon that they allow you to use and not a custom one you can
go back to where it says all shortcuts click on the three dots to edit again and then up top you
would click on this little drop down thing choose icon and then it'll pull up a little page with
all of their colors and icons oh they added more icons that's really cool then you would just click
done and then you would again add it to your home screen so that's pretty sweet right and you guys
if you're someone who likes having custom app cons for just individual apps you actually will achieve
that by doing kind of that same process but when you go to add a new action instead of choosing the
choose from menu you would just choose the open app the next technique is also one of my favorite
ways of organizing apps I've been doing this for about four years or more and that is the shelving
method so for this method you're essentially sorting your apps into folders like you did before
but then in each category you'll actually choose your most used apps and drag them to the side of
that folder for easy access you could do this with the folders at the top and the icons going down
but for me personally I like having the folders on the left side and putting all of the icons to the
right it just makes sense to me I think because we read left to right and that's just the way my
brain works I love this method because I don't like everything being tucked away in folder so
this way Everything feels really organized and not cluttered but I'm still able to see the apps that
I use the most which is easier for me the next way is to keep all of your most used apps on the
first home page in a very clean minimal with just everything out there on the table kind of way and
then the remaining Pages you can choose whatever method of organization you want I know I already
mentioned that I recommend putting your most used apps on the first page all the time but I think
in this one it's more specifically everything in the open in a very clean minimal way this is great
for multiple reasons okay you're minimizing what you're actually looking at so just less clutter
but also you're keeping it to your must-have apps so there's just less room for distraction you
could choose only the apps you need for work and it actually makes you take that extra step to like
go to another page to get to those fun apps like Instagram or whatever and it's just deterring you
from distracting yourself all day maybe hopefully which also leads me to the seventh and final way
of organizing your apps which is actually to create unique home screens for every mood or
Vibe you're feeling or for every like activity you have to do AKA setting a custom home screen
for every Focus mode that you have if you didn't know Apple now has a focus mode feature and it's
basically like a do not disturb where you get to choose the people and apps that are able to
notify you when you're in the mode with iOS 15 they added the ability to assign a custom home
screen for each Focus mode so let's say we want the most used apps on the front page for our work
mode right so that we're not distracted we can literally have a preset style that whenever we
go into work mode that home screen always appears which is so cool this essentially means you can
like save all these preset home screens and wallpapers for each time in your life whether
it's based on Aesthetics or based on time of day or based on what you're doing and I love that so
there's two ways to do this either you can make all of your wallpaper combinations first by going
to the lock screen Force touching and clicking to add a wallpaper here and then from this page you
would just click focus on the bottom and assign each of them a focus mode and obviously you will
have had to make your focus modes or you can go to settings focus and then click on the one
that you want to add a custom wallpaper or two or maybe you have to make a new one and you can do
that by clicking the plus icon making a new Focus mode and let's just say for this one we're gonna
choose like retro Vibe so if I'm just feeling one day like I want everything to look retro
um I'm just gonna have that and then you can select the wallpaper here if you want to create
Focus modes kind of more like this where it's more based on Aesthetics you probably then still want
people to be able to notify you and you can make sure that all the notifications stay on by just
not choosing people or apps in this category just leaving that blank so when it comes to
making additional home screens you can do this by actually dragging apps from the app library
to your home screen on a new page like this and you'll notice it lets you have the same app twice
on your homepage I remember I used to get confused why apps would show up twice like for example
there's Instagram and there it is again I used to think this was a total glitch but nope it's there
for a reason so basically once you've configured the pages that you want for each Focus mode you
can hide them from your main screen and you do that by force touching the background and then
clicking on on this bar on the bottom and then just uncheck the ones that you don't want showing
and then when you go into Focus mode settings again and you click on choose under the home
screen you can choose from all of the pages you've created even the hidden ones so you can basically
make all these ones hide them and then choose them just for the specific Focus mode so obviously this
is pretty tedious if you want multiple different kind of focus modes but I feel like it's so worth
it to be able to just instantly switch back and forth from like one mode to another and have
totally custom way that your apps are arranged and custom backgrounds very cool one thing to note
is that whatever lock screen background you're choosing the wallpaper that you paired with it as
your home screen wallpaper will show up as well so when you're making the home screens just make sure
to change it to the corresponding wallpaper that you want to make sure you arrange your home screen
in a way that you want like if you're using the invisible icons you obviously want to make sure
you're changing your wallpaper to that to make the home screen and then you know you can move it
back I love this technique because you just don't have to choose one way to organize everything you
can choose however many ways that you want and for someone with ADV like me I feel like it's just so
nice to be able to switch it up and really have the vibe of what I'm looking at so often during
the day shift with my mood or what I'm doing which is so so cool all right you guys thank you so much
for watching this video I hope that you enjoyed it and let me know in the comments which way is your
favorite for organizing and if you want to see more customization videos click on this playlist
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