It’s not like you can ever find the app you’re looking for on your various home screens anyway, so why not do something fancy with those icons instead? Like, making your home screen an expression of your inner chakra, man. Or getting in tune with the color harmonies of the universe or whatever.
Whatever hippie crap you’re using to justify it, the results can be amazing. And who knows — if you arrange your home screens by color, then maybe you’ll actually end up finding things faster.
Creative iPhone home screen gallery
This fantastic gallery of creative iPhone home screens comes via Twitter and designer/engineer/Slacker Michael Lopp, writing on his Rands in Repose blog. The designs vary from colorful to minimal (one icon!).
Some of the designs are even confusing. Did you know, for instance, that it’s possible to insert a blank icon, or a blank row of icons, in order to make a visual separation? Just do it by adding a bookmark from this webpage, from developer Underscore David Smith, to your home screen. (Here’s a tutorial on how to do it: How to add blank spaces to your iPhone home screen grid.)
So, let’s take a look at some of the best and most creative iPhone home screens from Lopp’s Twitter thread.
I put my colours into folders first pic.twitter.com/EzMMSQuEMb
— Gordo (@gjbroom) February 20, 2018
I’ve been using the colour spectrum method for six months now. Need #Twitter, straight to the blue section. Really loving it. pic.twitter.com/VKfRiVwtLS
— Daniel Whiting (@daniel_whiting) February 20, 2018
All apps in one folder. Search what I need, it’s extremely fast and simple. pic.twitter.com/vxVAI9Bawh
— Grinder (@SLF882) February 21, 2018
It was kind of a dare. But it works well. pic.twitter.com/wXlbWd6Bpk
— Lyle Troxell (@lyle) February 20, 2018
All apps in one folder. Search what I need, it’s extremely fast and simple. pic.twitter.com/vxVAI9Bawh
— Grinder (@SLF882) February 21, 2018
Tough to beat what https://t.co/fLS30h3r54 #makeovr makes possible (no hack or mod, just clever web links) pic.twitter.com/pb5dAyE5XJ
— Peter M. O’Donnell (@pmod) February 20, 2018
minimal home screen. pic.twitter.com/BaO1n7pKdb
— zach holmquist (@zholmquist) February 20, 2018
Reminds me to be active. To search (browser) or write. Passive apps, entertainment and chats are harder to reach. pic.twitter.com/dydXpedTi6
— Oliver Reichenstein (@reichenstein) February 27, 2018
Back in Black. pic.twitter.com/u0B7BLylHM
— Mike Hawkins (@mike_hawkins) February 27, 2018
US (6s+) + UK (8+) — UK is primary so gets the camera + @gyroscope_app in the Quick Access Bar™️ pic.twitter.com/Bydf177QfI
— Dan Rubin (@danrubin) February 21, 2018
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