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Apple released iOS 26 in September 2025, and that update brought a Liquid Glass redesign to your iPhone. The redesign makes elements of your iPhone transparent, and it lets you make your app icons and widgets clear, too. These home screen changes build on the customization options Apple introduced to the iPhone with iOS 18 in 2024.
When Apple released iOS 18 it brought a major (and long overdue) change to your iPhone: the ability to customize your home screen. After that update you could remove app labels, change app icon colors and arrange apps in new ways around your screen. You could also frame your wallpaper with apps or give your iPhone a more personal touch with different color themes.
Here are the ways you can customize your home screen to make it as fun and unique as you are.
How to remove app labels
1. Long-press on your background to enter jiggle mode — where your apps are all shaking.
2. Tap Edit in the top left corner of your screen.
3. Tap Customize.
Tapping Customize opens a new menu. Apple/Screenshot by CNET
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