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Tweak your iPhone’s Home Screen

Tweak your iPhone’s Home Screen

Here's how to keep it clean and make it more useful.

Leander Kahney
January 18, 2024

Did you know that changing your iPhone wallpaper is as easy as changing the face on your Apple Watch?

Plus, you can associate that wallpaper with a different Focus, making it easy to switch modes as well as wallpapers.

And also you can set your wallpaper to show the live weather using Apple’s pretty wonderful weather animations.

Find out how to do all this, and much more, in our comprehensive guide on how to tweak your iPhone’s Home Screen.

Also in today’s newsletter:

In the there-and-back-again patent saga, the latest Apple Watches are again on sale, minus a key app.
Last time I shopped for a hard drive, I thought 4TB was massive. Seagate just upped that by a long shot.
Even if you don’t much like soccer, you’ll love this new Lionel Messi documentary on Apple TV+. The trailer makes it look great.
Juuk makes great Apple Watch bands at a fraction of Apple’s prices. This one’s its most colorful.

— Leander Kahney, EIC.

How to tweak your iPhone's Home Screen

Want to manage and customize your iPhone Home Screen to increase its usefulness and keep it clean? Follow this guide.

Seagate’s new 30TB hard drive smashes storage record

Got a thousand Blu-ray movies to store? Well, you can, whenever you can get Seagate's massive new 30TB HDD.

Why you should expect Apple Vision Pro to quickly sell out

Apple's Vision Pro headset goes on sale Friday -- the cutting-edge device is expected to quickly sell out. Don't miss your chance!

^{A message from the Cult of Mac Deals team}

Turn your TV into a digital gallery stocked with the world's most famous art

Just plug this USB drive into your TV and watch as the world's most famous paintings transform your living space.

Apple Watch Series 9 and Ultra 2 without blood oxygen feature go on sale in US

Apple will disable a health-related app to keep selling its latest smartwatches.

Take a peek at South Korea's newest Apple Store

It's not a stunning location, but it does feature a daily Today at Apple Pop-Up Studio featuring hip-hop artist Beenzino.

^{A message from the Cult of Mac Deals team}

Get Windows 11 Pro (and learn to use it) for less than $40

Get lifetime access to Microsoft Windows 11 Pro, plus the Essential Windows 11 Pro Course, all for just $39.97.

This rainbow Apple Watch band will dazzle you with color [Under Review]

"Oooooooh!" my wife squealed when I pulled the Juuk Ligero Rainbow Apple Watch band out of the shipping carton. The brightly colored links in the aluminum bracelet definitely caught her eye.

‘Messi's World Cup’ trailer traces soccer legend's rise

Ready to worship at the feet of footballer Lionel Messi? Check out his World Cup rise in Apple's second documentary series on him.

Today in Apple history: Unauthorized Apple II clone sparks big legal battle

On January 18, 1983, the Franklin Ace 1200 computer launched. The unauthorized Apple II clone triggered an important legal fight.

Tweetz o’ the day

In 2024, Apple's iPhone is expected to hit $2 trillion in lifetime revenue. It's the most successful consumer product in history.
— Sawyer Merritt (@SawyerMerritt)
5:40 AM • Jan 18, 2024

Create your own sci-fi wallpapers
In the style of Ralph McQuarrie
Here is how... ⬇️
— Linus (●ᴗ●) (@LinusEkenstam)
10:51 PM • Jan 17, 2024

Vision Pro top strap concept.. Would this be possible? (Poking a string through one top vent and out the other, I mean)
— Andrew Fox (@afoxdesign)
4:21 PM • Jan 17, 2024

One more thing ...

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We spent some time in our family talking about what’s the trade-off we want to make. We ended up talking a lot about design, but also about the values of our family. Did we care most about getting our wash done in an hour versus an hour and a half? Or did we care most about our clothes feeling really soft and lasting longer? Did we care about using a quarter of the water? We spent about two weeks talking about this every night at the dinner table.

— Steve Jobs, on trying to decide what washing machine to buy, 2011.

Today’s poll

Have you customized your iPhone Home Screen?

Results from yesterday’s poll: Should Apple allow alternative payment mechanisms in apps?

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