what's up you guys it's Adrienne welcome back to my channel
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in today's video I'm doing another iPhone app organization and
customization video as you guys know I'm obsessed with these I've done many
before and if you haven't watched them and you're interested I would check them
out because I talked all about how to make invisible icons how to make custom
icons a bunch of different aesthetic ways that you can organize your apps on
your iPhone so sorry Android users I'm an iPhone user so I just I don't know
what to say about that so I've had this layout on my phone for
a little bit now so today I'm just gonna show you guys what I'm deciding to do to
change mine and along the way show you a couple tips and creative ways that you
can organize your phone we're gonna be focusing kind of on minimalism and
productivity but also while keeping it aesthetic and amazingly cute so without
further ado let's get into it okay so just start off this is the way
my phone looks now I did a recent what's on my iPhone video and showed you guys
what it looks like so currently the organization setup that I have is I have
like my front page being basically all the apps that I use the most regularly
and then the pages after that I have a technique called shelving so basically I
have a folder full of a certain category of apps so for example I have a folder
called social media and it just has all these social media apps in it and then
the three apps to the right are the ones that I use the most frequently so as you
go down the list it's like all my most frequently used apps in these categories
with a folder on the left side holding all the rest of them so I actually
really really like this method of organization I don't want to change
anything too much but I do want to do is obviously these random apps at the end I
need a place for those but also I want to completely redo and change my front
screen my home screen this one because right now I just feel like this is a bit
too cluttered and I want this to be a lot more minimal and a lot more
aesthetically pleasing so I'm gonna show you guys some tips and basically what
I'm gonna do with mine okay so the very first thing that I want to do is
actually change the background to something very minimal but also
something that's kind of helpful in terms of productivity and so I was
thinking of doing a that I can switch every month so like a
March 2020 calendar with like a cute background so I just went over to
Pinterest and I was just searching like March calendars there actually weren't a
ton that I liked but I ended up choosing oh this one's kind of cute oh they just
have so many cute like random wallpapers okay but let's not get distracted here
but I actually really like this purple one so I just went ahead and downloaded
it and let's see what this looks like as my wallpaper so that's what that looks
like I don't love it to be honest let's try the other one
okay I think I might like this one a lot better actually set as home screen okay
yeah for now I really like that okay so basically what we're gonna do is I want
my front page to be like very clean so I'm gonna pretty much take all of these
and just move them one page over so that I have a clean page but I'm going to
keep these for social media apps as being on my front page you write back
okay so now this is what the home screen looks like there are only four apps on
top there's this calendar and then there are the doc apps and then everything
else is already how it was before so the reason I like it to be like this is it's
very minimal and just not distracting so far I like this the only thing that I
would do is I'm gonna change the apps to be custom apps because I just I like the
way that's the top ones look but I think like the green of the messages and foam
just I don't love the way that it looks so I'm gonna switch those so if you guys
didn't know how to create a custom app what you're gonna do is go to this
shortcuts app on your phone I believe that you need I oh s 13 and above for
shortcuts so I already have some of these shortcuts created if you don't
know how what you do is you click new shortcut and then you click add action
you're gonna search for open app click on this little colored square thing
click Choose and then you're going to click the app that you want to choose so
I have podcasts then you're gonna click the three dots and you're gonna name it
podcasts Add to Home screen then you're gonna click here and name it actually
what you want it to be called like on your home screen so a little pro tip if
you guys want to use custom fonts go to fonts keyboard comm and download that
app and then add it as a keyboard so I'm gonna try something new like maybe those
squares there's a pro version that has even more I just have the basic version
so I'm going to try these circles pods pods
and I'm gonna click the icon and then basically for this icon you can either
choose a photo from one that you have you can take a photo so I'm gonna go
ahead and search on Google I'm gonna search aesthetic Podcast logo Oh app
logo okay I think this one's pretty cute gonna save that out to photos then
you're gonna go here choose photo click on this one and then just zoom it in to
be kind of what you would want the icon to be click Choose and then add so as
you can see here's the little app so I'm gonna drag this to the front basically
when you guys make custom apps it's going to just reroute you to the podcast
app so I recommend keeping the podcast actual podcast app somewhere just put it
in a folder like on another page I'm gonna just put it at the end right now
and also another thing that you guys can do is for podcast specifically like
let's say that I wanted to actually make this the icon the logo of my podcast
then I would just go to myself my CEO podcast find the logo and just make it
that and add that to my home screen so as you can tell like that could also be
really cool to have my actual podcast be my podcast logo that's pretty sweet
also I'm noticing that this font is a little bit tricky to read I think I'm
actually going to go in and change the font small caps ok so then next we would
do Spotify you're basically just gonna repeat this same process
and then I'm gonna actually Google again aesthetic Spotify I like this pink one
but look at their cute little options yellow pink that's pretty cool when I go
with the pink
I've never tried to do a transparent picture so let's see if that even works
oh that's really cute okay I changed my mind I am I'm gonna mm but the podcast
back how it was the only thing I don't love is that the YouTube logo is like a
different shape but whatever so now we just go in and do the same thing for the
dock and I'm just gonna do that off camera real quick okay I'm back so this
is what it looks like I'm actually very happy with it so as you can tell like if
I click on the phone it goes right over to my phone so all these shortcuts work
it does take a second longer so you may not prefer to do it this way but I do
think it's pretty cool to be able to have your phone look however you want it
to look and then I think I'm just gonna keep the rest of my phone in these
shelves it's obviously not the most aesthetically pleasing but I have found
that like in terms of productivity and just being able to access my phone the
way I want this honestly is the easiest for me so maybe I will continue to
decorate it differently in the future but for now
this is what I'm liking and this is what I did another pro tip for keeping your
phone very minimal and you know good for productivity is to turn off all of these
badge notifications so besides messages and phone I don't want them on anything
so as you can see whatsapp has a notification so if you go over to
settings and then notifications you unfortunately have to do each one
individually like each app which is kind of annoying but you click on the app and
you just toggle off the badges so there's one other one what is it
Dropbox it does take a little while but honestly you guys it's so worth it my
homescreen used to give me such bad anxiety and I'm pretty sure gave you
guys anxiety too because there were just badges all over it and now it looks
pretty good so that was like my favorite way to organize my phone for
productivity and minimalism I also found this other guy who made this awesome
layout I don't want to do it this time but I might try it next time but it
looks like this and basically what he has is his 12 most used apps and then
four folders on top that are called work play go and sift sift would be like
other because he realized like all he really does with his app it's either
something for work it's either something for entertainment or for fun or it's
like travel related or then it's just like something else like
so I thought that was like very clever I think I have too many apps to do that
but that could be a goal of mine is really to get it down to that he only
has one page he doesn't even have multiple pages of app but anyway I'm
gonna link my other videos down below if you guys want to learn more about
customizing haps I have plenty for you so I hope you guys enjoyed give this a
thumbs up if you did and let me know any other video suggestions you want
especially iPhone related or Apple watch related or organizing or decluttering or
anything because those are the videos that I love doing so I want to make more
coming up in the future thank you guys so much for watching and I'll see you
later bye