But your options are not limited to these options. On the home screen, if you press the empty space between the icons for a while, the “Edit” option will appear at the top left of the screen. By tapping on this option, which replaced “+” in iOS 17, you can access three options: “Add Widget”, “Customize” and “Edit Pages”. The add widget option does the same thing as the “+” button used to do.
After choosing the dark mode, you don’t want to go back to the previous mode!
The option to edit pages shows a view of all the main pages of the phone, and you can delete the pages you don’t want or change their order. By selecting the Personalization option, a panel will appear at the bottom of the screen that allows you to choose dark or light mode for the icons and change the size of the icons. By selecting the “Tinted” option, you can change the color of all the icons to your desired color; It’s just a pity that there is no choice of different colors for different icons. This routine gives the icons coherence and integrity, but may not be to everyone’s taste.
Let’s change the size of the icons. Of course, you can’t make each of the icons separately to the exact size you want! In iOS 18, the home screen icons are set in two modes: with the new settings, the icons are shown larger and their names are removed from under the icons. The default size is also exactly what we had in iOS 17.
Likewise, you can resize widgets directly from the home screen, without opening the customization panel.
Important change of the lock screen
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The most important change that iOS 18 has brought to the lock screen is the ability to change the toggles on the left and right side of this screen. Previously, the flashlight icon was on the left and the camera on the right, and we couldn’t replace them with other apps.
Multiple options to choose from! But I still use the same camera toggle and flashlight!
To change the toggles, you need to enter the customization section by pressing your finger on the lock screen. Now, next to each of these two buttons, you will see the “-” sign. By tapping on this sign, the previous option will be removed and instead you will see a “+” sign, which you will see a long list of replaceable options.
After the home screen, which is the heart of Apple’s operating system update, it’s time for the Control Center, which gives the iPhone a new look with a new format, more diverse options, and of course, customization features.
Unlike in the past, you no longer have to go to Settings to change Control Center options; Instead, you can either tap on the “+” at the top of the screen or touch and hold any empty space in the Control Center for a while to enter the customization mode.
When you swipe down from the top right corner of the screen to access Control Center, you will see a few new elements:
- The “+” sign in the upper left corner: This option launches the customization menu for rearranging and resizing the controls.
- Power icon in the upper right corner: By holding this icon, the power off screen will appear and turn off iOS.
- Three icons on the right side of the screen: heart icon, music icon and wireless connection icon
The three icons on the right basically represent the three screens that the Control Center starts with. If you want, you can add more pages yourself.
The first page (represented by a heart) contains all the control tools that were in the old version of Control Center. You can easily change these options and choose their size and arrangement according to your taste.
By default, the second screen displays a large music widget with AirPlay options. The third screen is also a place to activate and deactivate communication options such as Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, mobile network, airdrop, airplane mode, and so on.
In the new Control Center, you can sort and resize options. In addition, for the first time, Apple has allowed other developers to add their app toggles to the list of Control Center options. Also, in the lower right corner of each option, you will see a marker that you can touch and drag to increase its size.
Photos application changes
When we open the Photos app for the first time, we don’t see Apple’s claim of “the biggest changes in the history of Photos in iOS 18”; Of course, this program has undergone positive changes since the beta version of iOS 18.
The first thing that catches the eye after opening the program is the transformation of the new Photos interface, the former Library tabs, albums and For You collections into a single page.
Swiping down brings up gallery images, and swiping up lets you view collections, auto-collected memories, and other grouped photos (by categories like people and pets, travel, and the like).
The image gallery is now more customizable: you can set the order in which the different sections appear as you wish. For example, you can move Featured Photos to the top of the page.
Smart tools are provided to users to sort or filter images
In the early beta version of iOS 18, the way it worked was a little different and users had to swipe left and right on the photo library to view different sets of images. Apple apparently removed this feature due to user feedback.
Also, the size of the Recent Days section, which is located under the library by default, has been reduced so that users can see more images from the library in the main view.
