With this feature, iOS 18 will give users a newer look.

According to reliable sources from Bloomberg and MacRumors, iOS 18 will allow iPhone users more control over the arrangement of application icons on the home screen.

While app icons may still be limited to an invisible grid system on the home screen to ensure uniformity, sources say users will be able to arrange them more flexibly on the home screen. iOS 18. For example, the update is expected to introduce the ability to create spaces, rows, and columns between app icons.

Currently, iPhone users can already customize the home screen and create blank app icons with apps like Shortcuts and Widgetsmith, but personalization options built into the operating system are convenient and more stable.

Apple has allowed lock screen customization since iOS 16, and users expect the home screen to receive similar improvements with iOS 18. Although it is nearly 2 decades behind Android (the first Android version since 2008 there has been the ability to customize the home screen), but perhaps “more distortion than nothing”. This is considered one of Apple’s efforts to give iOS a newer look.

Apple will announce iOS 18 at its WWDC 2024 developer conference, taking place in June. iOS 18 features and changes are rumored to include next-generation AI functionality for Siri and many other apps , support for the RCS messaging standard to improve messaging between iPhone and Android devices and interface changes. The official version of iOS 18 will reach users in September with the new iPhone 16 series.