i'm gonna show you how to update your iphone's home screen so it is super
aesthetic super calming super peaceful and you can do it in 30 minutes or less for free
so you want that really cute cool aesthetic vibe that cohesive look you're going to be
able to completely customize the home screen of your phone and i did that and i'm going to
show you how to do it today hello friends welcome back to the channel if you're new
welcome my name is Kristina Braly and i'm a board-certified anesthesiologist
the ceo of cloud9 scrubs and a content creator on this channel we explore products
and gain knowledge and wisdom that helps us live happier more efficient and more productive lives
let's get into this video i'm going to show you how i customized my iphone 13.
the first thing you'll notice is my phone's wallpaper now i normally have photos of my
kids as my home screen and my my front wallpaper if you will but i decided that for a cohesive
look and especially for this video i wanted to find something that was a little bit more me
and less just about being a mom so i found this amazing whop i did not make this collage but you
can absolutely make your own collage in your favorite collage making app or using canva or
photoshop or whatever you like to use so this one i i found them on pinterest and then i purchased
the digital art on etsy that they sell for like a couple bucks it was not that bad by and large you
should be able to completely customize your phone for free it should not cost you any money however
there are ways to spend money if you want to get a little bit extra and that's what i did so you
know full disclosure i paid about ten dollars to completely overhaul my phone's aesthetic if you
will but you definitely don't have to spend money let's get into this so that's my home screen and
i love it because it just showcases sort of this beige luxe brand label look there's some chanel
some louis vuitton some prada what else do we have in here we have some good street style imagery i
just think overall aesthetically this is one of the best wallpapers i've ever seen but here is my
home screen so this is what i came up with this is how i kind of wanted everything to sort of reflect
my mental state i think when you what you're looking at all day really does change your mental
state which it's a huge reason reason why i'm changing my filming set up my office my desk setup
these things are important to me because i have a chaotic mind and so the chaos is tamed by external
peace and so this just seemed very calming very aesthetic so it's like sort of a beige
and white aesthetic this may not be your thing a lot of people go dark black and white
they do like lots of like stock imagery or free stock imagery on unsplash you can actually
download a lot of these and i'll put links to all these resources down below so if you're
like what is unsplash don't worry i'm going to put everything down in the description box
for me i didn't use any of that i did want to put something that was featuring my kids so i
can see my beautiful kids faces every day and i actually i'll show you how i do this but it
rotates between harper and juliet throughout the day so so the first thing is the wallpaper i ended
up just finding a beige plain wallpaper and made that as my background then
what i did was i customized all the icons but i started first with the widgets because those take
up the most space so the first thing you want to want to do is download an app called widget
smith it's completely free there's a subscription option if you want to like get a little bit more
involved personally i don't think it's necessary that's just my two cents i got this entire look
on widget smith for free um so you download this app called widget smith and what you do is you go
into it you open it up and you're gonna click on the first widget that it provides for you whatever
size you want you can do medium large small i just recommend starting with small tap on it
and this is a style let me just create a new one so because you're not going to be able to
see that straight off the bat all right so the first thing it does is open up this as a photo
and so you can choose a photo or you can choose a time or you can choose time with a photo in
the background hourglass if you want to do like a pomodoro timer for productivity and keeping you on
track so you have a lot of different options here and this is all completely free like look at this
all the reminders the battery icon it's amazing so once you've clicked on that one then you
are going to click your theme and i actually just went for powder because it has a white
background and it's really cute and it matched my aesthetic then you choose your photo so let's say
okay the new gmt master was announced with a the left-handed gmt master i'm obsessed i won it so
i was taking pictures to send to my authorized dealer which is deutsche jewelers here in houston
texas hello to them if they're watching so that's your widget you add it and then you click on it
and you don't actually do anything there yet so what you do is you hold down your finger
anywhere on the home screen and you're gonna see this plus icon
show up that's where you're going to add your widgets and so you search for widget smith
and then you're going to select which size you had created and it will automatically
put one there for you you'll need to click on this and select the widget that you created
so let's say i did small but i didn't actually end up selecting a photo so
it's just going to look black but that's basically how that works okay
now i have to move everything back over that's irritating so you can see i've actually
inadvertently moved this over but i can completely just move this back over if i want and we're good
to go so now that i've created the widgets um i let's say you repeat that process and i chose for
example a calendar we'll get into the custom icons but i did want to just breeze through this you can
see here that i this is my notion app and this is just sort of the last couple of things that i've
been working on in terms of content creation some of these you've probably already seen by now
and then the reminders is really nice because you can create your own little list and then
choose that as a like medium length reminders widget so the way that you do that is let's say
hold on to a blank spot push plus tap reminders okay here's your lists right so you can choose
the size that you want let's say i'll go with a small one then you click on it you
click on the the list that you want and i sort of um customize the color of my list
within the reminders app and yeah you're good to go so you can see these are all my like colored
icons and really i don't even need any of these you can actually remove all of these icons from
the home screen i just personally haven't done that yet um most often the way that i will access
a an app like quickly it's much faster for me rather than like sort of hunting and searching
for the app that i need is just to drag down and then i just type the first few letters of the name
of the app if that makes sense that now you may be wondering kind of the big kind of trendy thing
to do right now is to customize the icons and at first i thought this was very convoluted but i
was able to do this in 30 minutes the first thing i did was i chose and downloaded all of the icons
of a particular theme that i wanted and this is where i told you i spent 10 dollars on this i went
to this website that has all of these icon packs specifically for customizing your iphone or your
ipad and i downloaded i purchased one set did it through apple pay it was instantly delivered to me
and then i put it in my icloud drive or whatever you want to wherever you want to store it so you
can easily access those files from your phone and so what i did then
was you go into the shortcuts it's very very simple you can see all of my shortcuts here
you click the plus icon okay let's say you got to think about which which app do you want on
your on your home screen so what's one that we all use instagram right instagram so we're
going to call it instagram and then you'll see like next action suggestions open app that's the
one you want but if it doesn't show up don't worry you can just click on the add action
oh i can't call it instagram so i already have one so open app i'm just doing this in case you don't
see this uh right away so scripting open app then you click on that blue open app like click on the
app itself the text and you choose the app that you want it to open right seems simple so i'm
going to call this instagram too because i already have this then you click here's where it gets
interesting and it's not intuitive unless you're following these instructions click on the blue
icon with the little measurement dials like its preferences then this is the important thing
you want to click add to home screen now it's finicky about whether or not it pulls through
your your name but let's say you call it instagram i have to call it instagram too then you click on
the icon here and you either choose photo if you saved all these these icons to your camera roll
which will probably be the majority of you and you can get these icons for free by finding them on
you know pinterest or google or what have you um so i did choose file because i downloaded all of
these to my icloud drive and what i really liked about the website that i downloaded these from
for a fee of course was that they were all named each icon was named the app that it replaces and
they had so many like lightroom um they had even things like of course like photoshop
see and it came with four different variants so that you could either do all one color or
you could sort of mix and match just to make it a little bit i don't know like intentional like
an intentional like i and i chose to mix and match that's what way i like to do it i didn't
think too hard about which one was gonna be the which darker beige or lighter beige or whatever
so that's how you do that so let's say i've picked a cute icon right or
i guess i will i'll just pick one apple calendar there you go then you click add
and you'll notice that it pops up on your home screen and this is where you'll just hold down
edit home screen and depending on where you need to go you'll put it wherever you need to put it
and so i'm going to put it over here because i don't actually need it so i'm going to delete it
and i'm going to delete this shortcut because i do not need it so as you'll see i that is a
actually delivers is the only one that i have not done a shortcut for because i didn't feel
i needed to because actually within the app you can choose a different icons for deliveries and it
changes it on your phone and i thought it kind of fits it kind of sticks out a little bit but if i
wanted to change it i could that in a nutshell is how i did this in 30 minutes or less i think it's
really fun it's really aesthetic it's very pleasing i love opening this up and matter
of fact i feel like we do need to update the the case because you know i like to change up
my case every once in a while and this is the the new pink one let me change this out for one
that really goes with this aesthetic all right so we've got my my milk tea case i will link this one
in the description box as well this is the best like beige case ever i just feel like that goes
so nicely with the beige aesthetic theme that i have tried so hard to create in 30 minutes
or less well guys i have just shown you how to customize your ios 15 device in under 30 minutes
if you enjoyed this how-to then please drop a like and leave a comment letting me know what kind of
theme you're gonna do on your phone if any let me know do please let me know by replying to a pinned
comment here in this video if you would like me to customize my ipad air with its own aesthetic theme
within the whole video so i can do it from start to finish where you'll see it from beginning to
end so let me know if you'd like to see something like that and thank you so much for watching bye
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