how's it going everyone jeff benjamin
with nine to five mac
you see it right here yes indeed we have
themed our iphone with iris
on ios 14 let me show you how thanks for
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if you've been around
the ios and jailbreak community for a
while
you may recognize this theme this is
iris a jailbreak theme
from well-known graphic designer surenix
and it's been ported basically
over to ios 14 within the constraints of
a non-jailbroken device
so i'm going to show you how this all
works right here but it's fairly simple
and while it's not perfect it doesn't
give you the exact same experience
as iris does on a proper jailbroken
device
as you can see right there the shortcuts
app basically acts as an intermediary
between
the theme bookmark or shortcut and the
actual application
so it's not perfect but when combined
with widgets you can
really customize the look and feel of
your ios device so we're going to talk
about
how to do this right now and i'm using
iris from
surenix and he's created a free version
which contains a few icons in a couple
of backgrounds
but there's also a patreon supported
version where you can pay
for the right to have a lot of icons and
a lot of different wallpapers as well
but this process works with any theme or
any icons you want to use so just keep
that in mind you don't have to use iris
if you don't want to
all right the first step is to put your
device into edit mode as i've just done
or
jiggle mode and then tap the page dots
and then
disable all the pages except for the
first page because you could you always
have to have at least one page enabled
on ios 14. so once you do that the next
step is to remove
all apps from that remaining page so to
do that i like to tap and drag one app
continue holding that app and then
continue tapping
all the applications to cue them all up
just like i'm doing right now except for
one remaining icon
and then i want to simply drag on top
like this to create a folder
with all those icons in that folder now
you're probably thinking jeff you you
forgot some icons in the dock
and you would be right so i'm going to
go ahead and grab those as well
same method drag that into the folder
there
and you're probably wondering why i am
putting all these icons in a folder
well the reason is you can quickly get
rid of all those icons
simply by long pressing on the folder
and selecting
remove folder and when you select remove
from home
screen all those icons will be removed
from the home screen and placed into the
app library or should i say
captain inside the app library so now
you have a blank slate and i've
went ahead and reverted to the original
wallpaper as well because we're going to
start from scratch
we're going to download iris and like i
said you can just simply download the
trial copy if you just want to test out
this whole methodology
you can download that for free that
includes several icons and a couple of
backgrounds or wallpapers
to get you started so you simply tap the
finish download that will open the
downloads folder inside the files app
tap on the iris zip file to extract the
contents
and there you go you get a wallpaper
folder containing
two wallpapers just like that and you
also get
an icons folder so you can go in there
and you see several icons available
to get you started but i got with
surenicks he provided me with the
entire full version of iris and as you
can see
there are lots of different wallpapers
included with the full version and i
i imagine he will continue for his
patreon supporters continue
adding new wallpapers and probably
continue adding additional icons as well
but like i said you can use any sort of
theme any sort of icons you can make
your own icons if you want to you don't
have to use iris
but i really like this theme so i
thought it would be a great way to
demonstrate how to do this
so you can see tons of different icons
available there
yeah so now we're ready to get started
we're ready to to use the shortcuts app
to create our app icon so we're going to
launch shortcuts
and we want to go back to the root area
of the shortcuts app here and we want to
tap the new folder button in the upper
right hand corner
and then we're going to just call this
whatever your theme is called in this
case of course it's iris
we're going to create a new iris folder
and that will be where
all the different shortcuts reside that
we create
so go into the folder and then tap the
plus sign in the upper right hand corner
tap add shortcut tap where it says
scripting
and then tap where it says open app tap
on choose
and then select the application for the
icon that you want to create
so in this case i want to create a new
instagram icon
so i'm going to choose the instagram app
and there's a list here you can simply
scroll through the list or you can use
the search function as well
if you want to do that if you have a
whole bunch of apps on your device now
tap the ellipsis button in the upper
right hand corner and then
give the shortcut a name so i'm going to
name this the same
name of the app that i want to launch so
i'm going to call it instagram
and then tap done in the upper right
hand corner now at the bottom of the
interface tap the share button
and then tap where it says add to home
screen
now once you do that instagram the
name's already there because we've
already filled that in earlier
you want to tap the icon and then select
choose
file now once you do that it's going to
open up the files app
and then you can navigate to the
directory where you stored your icon so
here
i have the iris download so i'm just
going to navigate inside that
go to the icon folder and then i have
access
to all the icons inside and i can search
if i want to as well
but now we need to find instagram there
we go you simply tap on the instagram
icon
and look what we got super simple super
easy now tap the add button in the upper
right hand corner
and tap done there you'll see your
shortcut that's created
but the real important thing we want to
see is the home screen
so let's swipe over and there we go
folks
that is the instagram shortcut that we
just created the instagram app icon
themed with iris
and now you can launch instagram
simply by tapping that now it's going to
open up the shortcuts
as an intermediary and then it's going
to launch the instagram app now
what i recommend doing here is going
into settings and enabling reduce
motion this is going to help the
transition between the launch
look a little bit smoother so we want to
go into settings accessibility and
enable
reduce motion so i've done that now
watch what happens when i launch the app
there's a much smoother transition
between tapping the app icon
and the app appearing now we want to go
ahead and add our wallpaper so we're
going to go back to the files app
go into the wallpaper folder and then
find the wallpaper that you wish to use
so i'm going to use this one right here
you want to go to the share button and
simply choose
save image now we go to the photos app
find the image that you saved go to
share again
and then select use as wallpaper
all right now we'll tap set and then use
both
and there we go so now we have the
wallpaper set we have our instagram icon
so now use shortcuts to add the
remaining icons and what i like to do
is just two finger tap on the existing
shortcut and then
select duplicate and then i like to
duplicate again
and basically just create copies of that
initial shortcut
and then you can use the copies to
create the additional icon so i'm going
to select
this copy here just tap the ellipsis
button tap the ellipsis in the upper
right hand corner
clear out the name and replace it with
the name of the icon that you wish to
create so
in this case mail tap done and of course
you want to replace the app that it's
launching so i want to tap there
and then choose a new application in
this case mail
tap the share button and then tap add to
home screen
and then you want to tap the icon to
replace the icon so select
choose file and then find the mail app
icon
somewhere in here there we go tap on it
and then tap
add in the upper right hand corner and
tap done
so there we go let's go back to the home
screen we should see the mail app icon
there we go
so we might as well go ahead and drag
that down to the dock just like that
all right so now let's go ahead and
create a few more
so let's speed it up here i'm going to
create safari
using the same methods go ahead and add
to home screen select the safari icon
and now let's create the music app icon
same methodology so there we go we have
safari and music
let's add those down to the dock to join
mail and then i went ahead and added all
the icons and this
is what the end result looks like
admittedly it does take a little bit of
time and patience to add all these icons
but the end result is so so cool looking
uh and i've launched the app store like
that let's launch another apple's launch
settings and you can see that reduced
motion really does help out a lot
obviously you still do have the shortcut
appearing in between which is kind of
annoying admittedly but
it may be something you can live with if
you really want to theme
your iphone just want to move these over
to the second page
and now let's add some widgets to spice
it up so we're going to go back into
edit mode or
jiggle mode tap the plus in the upper
left hand corner select one of your
favorite widgets
i'm going to add to home screen the
music widget the small
version and we're going to add one more
i'm going to add a clock widget just
like that let's rearrange it a little
bit
just like that do you like the way this
looks let me know down below in the
comment section
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people find this video as well
but i think it looks great now i'm going
to set a new wallpaper
and here is the end result what do you
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you through
different ways to customize ios 14 and
really as far as widgets are concerned
this is just the tip of the iceberg
there's an app called widget smith no
doubt you've heard of it which allows
you to create your own customized
widgets
to really make your iphone home screen
your own so again
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the same and
if you want to try out iris definitely
head over to shernix's website he has a
free trial version you can download
with just a few icons and a couple of
wallpapers but there's also the patreon
supported version which has
lots of icons lots of wallpapers and no
doubt will probably gain more in the
future
let me know what you guys think down
below in the comments section this is
jeff
with nine to five mac
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