macOS lets you customize the icons of apps, folders, and other items on your Mac, although the feature may not be immediately obvious to the average user. Customizing Mac drives icons is possible as well, and it's a great option for people who dislike how the default drive icons look and want to theme their Mac with a new look and feel.
Follow along with our short tutorial for easy steps covering how to customize Mac drive icons to your liking in just a few easy steps.
For as often as we use our devices and the number of apps we download, keeping our Home screens organized is important. You want to be able to tap that app you need right now without hunting for it. And it’s certain that we all arrange our icons differently.
If you’re struggling for the best way to arrange your iPhone or iPad Home screen, so that you can quickly and easily find the app you need, here are six creative methods.
Check out these quick steps to change the icons for your accessories in the Home app on your iPhone, iPad, and Mac. Doing so, you can customize your experience or easily differentiate between your various smart devices such as light bulbs, fans, locks, thermostats, etc.
Since iOS 10.3, third-party apps have been able to optionally change their icon on the Home screen at user request. Unfortunately, iOS to this date does not provide a way to give app icons a different look when the system-wide Dark Mode has been enabled. Which is a shame, really.
If you’re a new Mac user, we want to help make your macOS experience as productive and efficient as it can be. From understanding the various icons, to customizing its layout, here are the basics of the menu bar that you need to know, along with some tips to help you use it more effectively.
Just like a physical desk where you sit, your Mac desktop can get messy. You pile things on it like shortcuts, files, and folders, and before you know it, it’s cluttered and out of hand. This defeats the purpose of a desktop that should be easy to use and let you quickly find what you need.
If you’re new to Mac, you might not know about the various ways you can make better use of your desktop by organizing it. You can do things like use Stacks and group your items, change the icon or font size, adjust the spacing, and more.
We’ll walk you through all of these options so that you can take control of your desktop before it takes control of you. Here’s how to organize your Mac desktop for maximum efficiency.
If you feel the app icons on your iPad Home Screen are too small, you can easily increase their size. This brief tutorial shows you how to make icons on iPad bigger for a more comfortable experience.
All of your folder icons look like folders by default, but you can change that. You can use images from the web, your own photos, or a picture that you create. This is a great way to spot the folders you want at a glance, plus it’s more fun.
Maybe you want to use a family photo icon for your vacation picture folder. Or maybe you want to use your company’s logo as the icon for your work folder. Whatever the case may be, it’s easy to swap out those icons.
Whether you want to show off your beautiful wallpaper or simply want your setup to look different from the millions of other iPhones out there, one of the best ways to do that is to use widgets, create a blank Home Screen with no app icons, or add blank icons to your Home Screen. In this tutorial, we will focus on the latter.
These invisible icons will allow you to create empty spaces on your Home Screen to either let the wallpaper shine or arrange your app icons in a very specific way. For example, you can place all the empty icons on the top, which will push your meaningful app icons down, making them easier to reach when using your iPhone in one-handed mode.
This tutorial will show you how to create blank, transparent iPhone icons with no jailbreak required.
If you're a perfectionist and don't like the extra_recipe jailbreak's lack of an icon, you can always change it to a custom one of your choice. This simple modification will also work to change the Yalu app icon should you so desire. Follow our guide below to see how.
Tucked away amid a flurry of new reports covering upcoming new features in Apple's operating system updates, like Theater Mode on Apple Watch and Siri in watch apps, Night Shift on Mac and Find My AirPods on iPhone, Apple yesterday quietly announced that developers will soon be allowed to change their app’s Home screen icon programmatically, whenever they like.
In other words, an update is no longer required to push out the new icon artwork.
The seemingly unimportant change opens up a world of new possibilities for interactions with your favorite apps that simply were not possible before.
Springtomize is one of my favorite jailbreak tweaks ever released because of its Swiss Army Knife-like appeal, but I also understand there are some jailbreakers who don't want to spend money in the Cydia store.
To those people, I present a new free tweak called Calypso 2.