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How to customize your iPhone - iOS 15, App Icons, and More! - YouTube
Channel: The Verge
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hey it's climb with the verge and today
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we're going to be customizing our iphone
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home screen now for years every iphone
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looked more or less exactly the same but
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with ios 14 apple added widgets and new
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workarounds for customizing icons
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causing a huge boom and bespoke iphone
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themes now if you're an android user
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this is old news to you like over a
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decade old but with 90 of iphones
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running ios 14 now there's no shortage
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of awesome themes being shown off adding
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them isn't exactly straightforward
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though in this video we're going to show
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you the basics how to fully customize
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your home screen and with ios 15 how you
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can make your phone automatically go
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from this at home to this when you're at
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work the first thing you'll want to do
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is make a plan for what home screen
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you'd like there are tons of great
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resources for inspiration pinterest
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reddit icon packs on etsy
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next make a note of what apps you'd like
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to have on your home screen most icon
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packs should include most of the popular
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apps but if you're using less popular
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ones like a specific game or calendar
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app you manage to be a little more
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creative when selecting an icon once you
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have your icons you can download them
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directly from your phone's browser by
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clicking save image or by importing the
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images into the files app using icloud
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drive finally you're going to want to
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grab a wallpaper and if you need some
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ideas the verge has excellent ones
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let's start with the easiest thing to
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change your wallpaper now a lot of you
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probably already know how to do this one
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so feel free to skip ahead if you don't
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though head over to settings
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wallpaper
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and then hit choose a new wallpaper
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from there just select one from your
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photo album or from the apple defaults
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if you're boring and then tap on it to
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set it an important thing to note here
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is that ios icons don't allow for image
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transparency so if you want a floating
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icon effect you're gonna need to make
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sure that your wallpaper color matches
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the icon background for whatever icons
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you have next is widgets which were
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introduced back in ios 14 and add a
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whole new dimension to customizing your
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home screen again android users have had
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this for a while but ios users only got
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them recently to add a widget you're
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going to tap and hold on your home
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screen the plus button and then you can
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scroll through all your widgets over
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here
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i'm going to grab a widget
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you can see the different sizes and
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options for widgets you have yeah hit
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the add widget button
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we'll place it on your home screen now
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widgets can also be put into stacks
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they're the same size so i can tap and
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hold this widget
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drop it into the stack over here
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and then i can easily scroll through all
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those widgets without taking up so much
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space all right
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let's theme now to start i suggest
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adding a second home screen and hiding
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your regular layout just in case you
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want to switch back when you're done i'm
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going to warn you this whole process can
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be pretty wonky so to create a custom
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icon you're going to want to head to
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shortcuts which should be pre-installed
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on your phone but if it's not you can
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install it on the app store now
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shortcuts is a pretty complicated app so
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we're going to try and make this simple
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we're going to open the shortcut app
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and we're going to hit the plus button
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in this corner to create a new shortcut
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now the thing we want to do here is open
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an app so we're going to add an action
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we're going to type in open app
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and we're going to open an app
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we'll find an app on our phone let's say
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the camera app
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and now i've already done the shortcut
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this is the action that we want to take
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now we want icons though so we have to
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do an additional step just gonna hit the
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share button
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we're going to add to home screen and
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now here's where the magic happens
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so here's where i give it the shortcut
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name which will be the label on my phone
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so maybe i don't like camera maybe i
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want this to say
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photography
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now i need an icon so i'm gonna hit
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choose file
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i already have this folder of these
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great icons i made earlier out of the
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original windows 98 icon so i'll get
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this great camera icon
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hit add
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and there it is on my home screen when i
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tap it
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it'll take me right to the camera app
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now there are a lot of quirks here using
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shortcuts means that you have to create
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a new shortcut for each individual app
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icon that you want to change which is
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really time consuming and really boring
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worse every time that you open an app
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using that custom icon you'll see an
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annoying drop down banner notification
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from shortcuts letting you know that
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it's doing exactly what you asked it to
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do
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and while there used to be a pretty
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annoying hacky way to get around that
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and block them it doesn't seem to work
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in ios 15 anymore so you're more or less
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stuck with them to take things to the
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next level you're gonna want some
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widgets to match widget smith is one of
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the most popular apps out there for this
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because you can use it to just display
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images that work well with your theme
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like say a windows 98 icon or you can
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use it to create themed calendar and
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clock widgets that match your color
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scheme font and aesthetic so we're going
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to open the app
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and we're going to select the type of
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widget we want you have small medium and
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large which are the three ios widget
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sizes let's go with medium that's kind
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of what i want for here and go with a
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default widget
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and now you have lots of different
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options we have date we have time we
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have weather we have step counting
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health activity calendar reminders tides
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astronomy
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lots choices now i just kind of want a
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simple clock in calendar so we'll find
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that
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and select it
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now our so you can see we're going to
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keep basic i don't really need you know
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hearts or
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you know apple colors
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maybe both terminal actually
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uh got that retro feel we're gonna
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customize it because i really like these
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colors
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about this nice blocky retro font
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uh background color though
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doing like a windows 98 so let's go with
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morbid teal
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and then
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for my font color let's just go with the
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simple white so we hit save
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applied to this widget
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and we're ready to go
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go plus button again we go and find
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we'll do smith
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add a medium widget
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we're going to choose that medium 2 that
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i just made before
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and then we'll show up
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all that's technically old news though
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but ios 15 adds an additional wrinkle to
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widgets and custom map icons called
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focus modes which as a side effect also
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allow you to selectively show and hide
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whole pages of your home screen widgets
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and all whenever you want the original
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idea is that you could have a home
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screen for work with your calendar and
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email widgets that automatically pop up
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when you're in the office and a regular
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home screen with social media apps and
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music widgets for when you're off the
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clock
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but since focus modes let you choose
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home screens you can combine them with
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widgets and shortcuts to say
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create a perfectly themed windows 98
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layout with your icons and widgets and
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everything that you can call up at a
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moment's notice to impress your friends
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without having to go through and
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manually hide all your home pages every
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time once you've got your home screen
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set up here's how to enable focus mode
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to automatically trigger it now again to
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do this you'll need to be either running
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the ios 15 public beta or if ios 15 is
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out by the time you're watching this
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just regular ios 15.
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so you're going to go to settings
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i'm going to hit focus then we're going
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to create a new focus mode i'll do a
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custom one here
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called windows
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get this color
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this icon hit next
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it doesn't really matter for uh
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notifications so we're just gonna
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go right through these okay our focus is
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ready now the important thing here is
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we're gonna go to home screen
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we're gonna do custom pages
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we're only going to let it show our main
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page that we have over here
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which is the one that we've laid out
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with our custom widgets and our custom
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icons
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now whenever i go and set
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that windows
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notification it hides all my other home
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screens and just shows me the windows
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icons but let's say we want to take this
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a little further because focus will let
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you get to just showing you your custom
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icons but not the wallpaper
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so we're going to do is we're going to
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use shortcuts to actually kind of hack
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our way through that too we'll use
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shortcuts
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we're going to create a new shortcut
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that'll automatically set a wallpaper so
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you have to set an album
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with whatever wallpaper you want which
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i've already done you're going to set up
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a shortcut that looks like this
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then you're going to go over to
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automation over here because one of the
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things you can do with automation is use
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focus modes as a trigger to do things so
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what we've done is we've built an
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automation that automatically changes
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our wallpaper to our windows 98 theme
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and we've set it up so that whenever we
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turn windows 98 on it'll run that
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shortcut so now i have all my automation
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set up so now i can hit focus button
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hit my windows 98 theme
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and you can see it is pretty janky you
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still have to hit the set wallpaper
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button over here
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with just one button
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i've turned my phone into windows 98 so
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that's pretty cool
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now again this is a really janky setup
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and if you're using this to change your
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wallpaper you will either have to set up
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more automations to switch back which is
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even more hacky or just manually reset
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it every time but it is pretty cool
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all these hoops you have to jump through
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highlight just how difficult it is to
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really customize your iphone you have to
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remember it took apple years before it
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let you even customize your home screen
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background even now
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all these customization tools look more
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like hacked together workarounds not
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useful methods to let you easily change
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the way your phone looks the steps that
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apple has taken though are some of the
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biggest concessions that it's ever made
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towards customization which means that
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there's still hopes for future updates
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that'll let you truly customize how your
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iphone looks in the future
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thanks so much for watching we've got
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links in the description for this cool
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windows 98 theme that we've made virtual
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papers and other how-to guides for
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customizing your iphone and if you've
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gone and themed your iphone send me a
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picture on twitter show us how it looks
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