Read along as I show you how to create an empty iPhone Home Screen in this article.
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How to make a blank iPhone Home Screen
How do you get an empty Homescreen on the iPhone? Removing all the app icons from the Home Screen leaves a clean blank space. It wasn’t a simple process before iOS 14. However, now it will only take some dragging, hiding, and moving to clear the iPhone Home Screen.
1. Create an empty Home Screen and hide the rest
The first method involves hiding/removing all other screens with apps, leaving just one. Notably, all we did here was hide all other Home Screens; the apps on that screen will not be hampered. A nice trick is to hide extra screens and recover them later whenever needed, or you can use Focus to automate your Home Screen. To send the apps to the Apps Library instead: Tap the remove (–) icon at the top-right of each unchecked screen. Select Remove to delete that screen and send its apps to the Apps Library. Now that you’ve hidden the other screens, you might have some apps left on the solo active Home Screen. The next step is to make those apps disappear.
2. Move app icons to App Library
The approach is to hide these apps, including the pinned ones, so you can have an empty Home Screen. Removing an app doesn’t mean you’ve deleted it or any data it holds; you are just moving to the App Library. There’s also an alternative method to achieve an empty Home Screen, though that’s a laborious process. You’ll have to manually remove all the app icons on the Home Screen one after the other. And once all the apps are shifted to App Library, you’ll have a clean screen.
How to maintain an empty Home Screen always
The iOS adds new apps to the Home Screen by default. So you want to prevent newly downloaded apps from appearing on the Home Screen. Simply set your Home Screen to send newly downloaded apps to the Apps Library. To do this:
How to put apps back on the Home Screen
Putting apps back to the Home Screen is easy. If you’ve only hidden your screens, you can recover your apps more easily: To return specific apps to the Home Screen without the other screens: If you want newly installed apps to appear on the Home Screen moving forward: That’s it! Now that we’ve covered how to create an empty Home Screen and undo it, you might want to beautify your Home Screen further with one of these minimalist iPhone wallpapers. Got any questions or comments? Let me know in the comments section below. Read more:
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