With Focus on iOS 15 and iPadOS 15 you can customise the Home Screens
of your devices based on where you are at that current time.
So here's how it works.
On my iPhone I've made a new page of Apps and on here I've put a few Widgets there already.
And this is going to be the screen that I want on my phone when I arrive at work.
I don't want all of my Social Media Apps on there or my games because that's going to
be distracting, so what I'm going to do is I'm going to add some Apps to this new Home Screen.
And the great thing in iOS 15 is that you can have multiple versions of Apps on your Home Screen.
That means you could have the App for Twitter
on three different screens and show them at different times and places.
I can add an App by simply pulling down in the middle of my Home Screen
and using the Spotlight Search to find the App I want.
So I'm going to add Showbie because that's one I use all the time at school.
When I’ve found that App icon I'm going to use one finger to tap and hold it
and with the other finger I'm going to press Cancel on my search in the corner.
Then I can drag-and-drop that App icon and put it on my new Home Screen.
I'll do this again for another App that I use quite regularly.
But the really clever thing is you can drag-and-drop App icons
from other places as well - like the App Library.
So if I swipe sideways to get the App Library and then find another
App that I want to use at school (for example my school email client) I can
then drag-and-drop the App straight from the App library onto that new Home Screen.
Okay let's whizz forward a minute or two.
Now I've now got a completed Home Screen that looks like this - and
you can see at the moment I've got three different pages of Apps on my iPhone.
I can swipe between them just like I would do normally, but I don't want those first
two pages to be there when I get to school - I just want that third page.
So I'm going to go into Settings and I'm going to go on to Focus.
From here I'm going to go into my work
Focus and then I'm going to choose the option for my Home Screen.
There's a handy toggle here to actually hide the Notification Dadges on the Apps (which is
good if you're trying to Focus on something in particular and you don't want distractions).
I'm going to turn that on but then I'm also going to choose some custom Home Screens.
From here you're going to get a new window coming up with all
of your different Home Screens on there - and you'll notice I've got
more than three because I've set this up already for different Focus Modes.
So I'll locate the Home Screen that I want to use and then I'll
tap on the Tick in the corner to select that as my Home Screen.
You can choose as many or as few as you want here.
Then let's come out to the Settings App and go back to my iPhone Home Screen.
Now at the moment I'm not in Work Mode so I can see all of my Home Screens,
but if I pull down to Control Centre and then tap and hold on Focus to activate Work Mode
you'll then see that I've only got that one page of Apps.
I can swipe sideways but there's no more Apps there!
If I've set my Focus to change automatically at a location then this will happen as soon
as I arrive at school, and it will change back when I leave after work.
However if I go to Control Centre now and switch that Focus Mode off you'll notice
that I've still got three pages of Apps - my two main pages and that third page.
Well really I don't want that third page at home so I'm going to tap and hold to go into
Jiggle Mode, and I'm going to press the Page Indicator dots at the bottom above the dock.
From here I have the option to show or hide any of the Home Screens that I've made already.
So I'm going to un-tick that last work Home Screen.
Then my phone looks just like I did before with my two Home Screens for use at home
and, when I go to work and change that Focus Mode, I should get my new work Home Screen.
I think this is a really great feature and it will really help me stay more Focused
and more organised whether I'm at work, at home making videos, or out traveling.
Check out my other video on using Focus Modes and maybe as well you might like to check out
my video on changing your Wallpaper when you get to a certain location - because imagine combining
Focus Modes with custom Home Screens and a custom Wallpaper when you arrive somewhere!
There's so much customisation you can do on your iPhone with iOS 15.
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