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- Welcome to quick fix

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the show where I answer
your most commonly asked

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tech questions today.

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Today, we gonna check out
your iPhone home screen.

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The long awaited iOS 14
upgrade is finally here

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and that means iPhone users

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can now customize their home screens.

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Here's how you do it.

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First decide what look
you want for your iPhone.

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An animal crossing theme perhaps

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or you can even go for old school windows

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next find some iPhone
icons by googling around.

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You can check out a set like
icons8.com for some ideas

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download those icons to
your iPhone camera roll.

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Then install third party
app called Widgetsmith

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which lets you customize
your icons spots and colors.

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Then download shortcuts and Apple app.

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You'll need that to change
your iPhone's icons.

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And unfortunately you can't
actually change them manually.

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Instead you'll have to create shortcuts

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from the new icons you've downloaded

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to the apps you wanna link them to.

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Yeah, it's a little bit complicated .

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Within the shortcuts app,

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hit the plus sign in the top right corner

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then tab add action and select scripting.

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From there, choose the open apps command.

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At this point pick the
app you want to open.

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Once this is done,

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get the three dots and
select add to home screen.

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From here, write the name of the app,

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and then hit the icon picture to the left.

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Select the choose photo option

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to open up your camera roll

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and select that icons that you
chose for this particular app

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in step one.

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Repeat that process for every
app you want custom icon for

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then long press your home screen

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to send all of the old
app icons you don't want

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to the App library

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where you don't have to
look at them ever again.

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Using shortcuts to choose custom
icons for your home screen

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will slow down your app loading times

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but if you're committed
to a certain aesthetic

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you may not care about
the performance trade-off.

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