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Philip Michaels

I'm a long-time iPhone user — here are the customization features I want to see in iOS 18

Active widgets on iOS 17.

The home screen on your iPhone is going to look a lot different once iOS 18 gets done with it. Multiple reports now claim that this year's iPhone software update will offer a greater degree of customization, giving you free rein to move app icons where you will.

According to reports from both Bloomberg and MacRumors, you'll still have to contend with the now familiar grid of apps when you update to iOS 18. But you won't be locked into stacking app icons one after the other; instead, you'll be able to leave blank spaces, even having entirely empty rows and columns to better space out those apps.

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