hi everyone aaron here for zollotech and
ios 14 has some
great customization options and so i
wanted to show you how you can customize
your phone to look just like this
or any other setup that you would choose
and you can see i have custom icons as
well as custom widgets
and everything just looks a little bit
different so let me show you how to do
that step by step
now the first thing is if you've already
been using ios 14 for a while you know
that you have this new app
library now you can't get rid of the app
library but you can get rid of all your
pages
you can add all your pages back have
this custom page whatever you would like
so if you want to change that just press
on an empty space
and get into jiggle mode tap on the dots
at the bottom
and then you can see all of your
different pages you can see this was one
of my previous pages
as soon as i hit done it will lock into
place and i can bring that page back so
you can have
customized multiple pages depending on
what you want to set up
so let's press and hold again tap get
rid of that
and as you can see we're back in jiggle
mode now in addition to using the app
library and hiding home screens if you
want to use a home screen but don't want
an application to show up
on that home screen but you still want
to keep it you can press and hold on it
and then hit remove app and then say
move to app library
now it will stay in the app library and
no longer show on your home screen
so now it's in my app library under
travel and i can just
open it from there now if you want to
have customized widgets like this
the first thing you need to do is
install an application called
widget smith as you can see here now
once you have widget smith installed it
allows you to fully customize
any one of these widgets so let's go
into widget smith now within the
application
widget smith we have the option to add
small widgets
medium widgets or large widgets and so
we can pick whatever we'd like
let's just pick a small one so we'll add
a small one tap on the widget
and tap on it again and as you can see
we have some different options
so we have time date both of them
combined we've got some
photos calendar reminders and as you get
further down
you can pay for additional widgets but
everything i'm going to show you is free
so
let's go ahead and pick maybe a photo
if we pick a photo tap on selected
photos
then choose a photo and let's just
choose
this red one go back hit save
and then go home now if we want to add a
widget
press and hold hit plus
and let's scroll down to widget smith
so we've got widget smith and then we
can add small
medium or large whatever we choose we'll
pick small
add widget and you'll see it added it
there in the upper left and then of
course if we press and hold
we can move this around now if you're
good with photoshop of course you could
blend this with the background make it
add or
make it fit in and then when you press
on it you can have it open your calendar
or go back to tools and select any one
of these to open
so maybe you want to open health or
photos or
weather which requires a premium
subscription but we wanted to open our
calendar
so super simple tap on it it opens the
calendar
so that's one way you can customize now
you can see i have a few different
options here
but then i have customized app icons as
well
and this is done a little bit
differently now in order to customize
app icons you need to download the
actual app icon
i'll link those in the description so
you can grab all of these if you'd like
to use the exact same ones there's sort
of a dark theme version of what we
already have
and they sort of work but they work
through shortcuts
and so for example if i want to go into
safari
press on it it opens shortcuts and then
opens apple.com on safari
now you could change this to any web
page you can change what it does
but if you're familiar with shortcuts
it's pretty simple to do
if not let me show you how to do it step
by step now let's go into shortcuts
and within shortcuts you can see i have
reminders and maps and music and safari
let me show you how i made the safari
one so you'll be able to add a dark icon
or any icon that you would like
so we'll go back over to shortcuts hit
the plus
tap add action tap on
apps and within apps find the app that
you want to change
so safari in this case
and then in safari i just have open a
url that's the easiest way you could use
any one of these but we'll do open url
tap on url and we'll type apple.com now
you won't have to modify this for every
single one of these
hit next name the shortcut i'll just
name it safari 2 since i've already made
one
and hit done now once you've done this
tap the three dots
and then tap the three dots again for
the menu and tap add to home screen
once you've tapped on add to home screen
tap the icon
here then tap choose photo
and under choose photo let's find safari
choose safari hit add hit done
and you'll find it on our home screen
over here
and so if we tap on this it will open up
and move over to apple.com now because
it's named safari 2
of course i would need to go back in and
change that but we can name that
whatever we'd like
photos music whatever we'd like we can
change it to that
and so you can build those for every
single one of these so camera for
example
runs a shortcut and then opens the
camera so some of these don't work
really well so if i go to phone
you'll see that it says who do you want
to call so it's not exactly what you
want it to do
so not every one of these will work but
you can fully customize it however you'd
like now i've shown you how you can
customize your phone to look like this
but maybe you want to change it up a
little bit
and you want a different style widget
well there's another app as well
other than widget smith so if we pull
down you can see there's one called
color widgets
if we go into color widgets this is a
little bit different in that it shows
not only the date and time but also the
battery percentage
so if you have a face id phone and you
want to see the percentage all the time
you can do that now without having to
pull down the control center
so for example we'll tap on this widget
we'll edit the widget
and here we can change the background
from light dark or colored
and then also change the font so maybe
i'll make the font like this
and then also i'll add a photo and let's
add a red photo to match the background
we'll hit set widget and now if we go
home
let's press and hold we'll remove the
old widget
let's add a new one go to our color
widget
and then go to the medium sized and hit
add widget
and now it matches the background and of
course we can change this over and over
to whatever works best for us
so as you can see it says 84 percent if
we pull down control center you'll see
it says 84 percent so now we have our
battery status
of course this can be smaller larger and
however you'd like
so the possibilities are fairly endless
as far as customization overall
with this particular update so ios 14
allows for a lot of customization
and i think i'll leave mine like this
for a little while and see if i like it
but let me know what you've done with
your ios 14 home screen in the comments
below now additionally
this app widget here is lumi this is
actually
an application that lets you know when
the best time to take photos is and it
has a watch complication as well so i've
set it on my apple watch
and you can see my apple watch the
series six in red with a black titanium
band
matches my phone so i've kind of
customized everything to match
and then of course i know when to take
the best photos so it's lumi
that's an application that's actually
not a free application but i can link
that in the description as well if
you're interested
now of course i'll link this wallpaper
in the description along with all the
different app icons so
i'll link to the person that provided
those there's a great place you can
download every single one of the dark
themed icons
and then you can set them for yourself
if you'd like to so i'll link all that
in the description
and then of course again let me know
what you've done with these app icons or
your home screen in the comments below
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as always thanks for watching this is
aaron i'll see you next time
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