Learn how to hide all apps from your iPhone Home Screen to create an empty Home Screen, giving you an unobstructed view of your wallpaper.
Similar to Android phones, it’s possible to have a clean Home Screen page on your iPhone with no apps on it. This method doesn’t require downloading third-party apps or using a jailbreak tweak.
You may want to do this so you can enjoy your wallpaper without app icons blocking the view. Additionally, keeping all extra apps out of sight can help cut down on your phone usage.
Remove all apps from your iPhone Home Screen
1) Remove all apps from one of the Home Screen pages until you’re left with just one app there. You can also just create a new Home Screen page and add a single app here.
2) Touch and hold anywhere on your iPhone Home Screen until all apps start jiggling. Then, tap the pill-shaped button over the Dock.
3) Uncheck all Home Screen pages except the one with a single app on it and tap Done.
4) You now have just one visible Home Screen page with a single app on it. Touch and hold this lone app and tap Remove App > Remove from Home Screen. This app will move to the App Library, leaving you with a clean Home Screen with no apps on it.
Now, go ahead and use a beautiful wallpaper from our vast and regularly updated wallpapers section. You can also use a picture of your kid, spouse, parents, or something similar, and it will look amazing on full screen with no apps blocking anything.
Learn how to set an unblurred Home Screen wallpaper if the blurred one doesn’t look nice.
Remove all apps from the iPhone Dock and hide it
You can go the extra mile and remove all four apps from your iPhone’s Dock by touching and holding an app icon and tapping Remove App. But I like to keep the most-used apps here, as it’s functional and looks nice. You can even add app folders to your iPhone Dock!
After you remove all apps from the Dock, you’ll notice that it appears in a different translucent color and doesn’t match your wallpaper. To address this on iOS 18 or older (it won’t work with the Liquid Glass effect in iOS 26), open iPhone Settings > Accessibility > Display & Text Size and enable Reduce Transparency. After that, use one of the special wallpapers that remove the division between your Home Screen and the Dock, giving you a uniform screen. Here’s how it looks:
How to get back the Home Screen pages
After you have hidden all your Home Screen pages, you can access apps from the App Library by swiping left. You can also swipe down to open Spotlight Search and type the app name to locate and open it.
However, if you ever want to restore all your Home Screen pages as before, you’ll need to unhide the hidden pages.
1) Go to step 2 if your iPhone is on iOS 26. On older versions of iOS, go to the App Library, touch an app, and drag it left onto the Home Screen, so you have at least one app on the Home Screen.
2) Touch and hold anywhere in an empty area until the app starts jiggling.
3) Tap the pill-shaped button over the Dock.
4) Check all the Home Screen pages to unhide them and tap Done.
This is how you can create an iOS Home Screen with zero apps.
Some tutorials mention using transparent app icons, widgets, and such other tricks to achieve this clean look. But that may be unnecessary for most people looking to get a simple, icon-free Home Screen.
The steps mentioned above are easy, don’t require you to download additional apps, and the entire process is easy to reverse. All your original Home Screen app layouts remain the same when you unhide the pages.
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