11 Creative iPhone Home Screen Layouts to Organize Your Apps

It’s fun to give yourself a great iPhone home screen layout. Grouping apps into different folders on different pages is a good way to keep things organized, but there are even more creative ways to organize your iPhone home screen layout. Here are my favorites.

Light and dark mode

If you have iOS 18 or later, consider using light and dark modes; these nicely complement some of the best hidden features of iOS 18. Press and hold on the screen to go to Edit > Customize. Then select Light or Dark.

App icons will change in dark mode. I also like to choose sometimes Automaticallywhich will automatically switch the colors of your app based on your other device’s settings.

Neon and futuristic

Using the same method above, go to Tinted tab and move the color slider to green. It should be about halfway between yellow and purple, but you want more of a vibrant shade.

After changing the colors, all colors should be removed from the screen except for the shade of green you chose. It’s quite reminiscent of the color scheme in The Matrix.

Shades of blue

Similar to the neon style, you can also try adjusting the screen in shades of blue for a calming theme. For a darker shade, move the slider closer to purple.

If you want a lighter shade of blue, look for a more turquoise tone. You will need to move the upper slider between green and blue; for the second one, I suggest moving it further to the left.

Monochromatic

If you want to keep things simple with a monochrome look, slide the bottom slider all the way to the right to make the app icons black and white. Some system apps like Settings and Camera already use grayscale icons, so you don’t need to worry about them.

After creating monochrome app shortcuts, consider removing all the original apps from your home screen.

One handed

Big screens are amazing, but reaching for icons on the far edges of the display can be a real pain. Instead of doing fingertip yoga every time you want to open an app, why not keep the icons on one side down?

Simply drag iPhone apps along one side of the screen; If necessary, consider a multi-page design.

Bottom line

Apple knows that the bottom of the screen is prime real estate because it’s the easiest part to reach. That’s why the Dock is down there. Therefore, it makes sense to completely ignore the top of the iPhone home screen and use the empty icons to move the app icons down.

If you need help implementing one of our home screen layouts that requires creating blank icons, don’t worry. We have a guide to create an empty iPhone home screen using iEmpty.

Work/play

With this layout, you can have work apps on one page and fun apps that you only use outside of work hours go on another.

Combine this with your iPhone’s Focus feature to automatically hide your work home screen at the end of the work day. For even better productivity, use Downtime to disable everything on the playback screen during work hours as well.

Heavy load

Can’t decide how to organize your iPhone apps? Pack them into multiple folders so you don’t have to scroll through endless home screens to see everything. It’s best to organize folders by app categories: work, health, finance, entertainment, etc.

The app library does this automatically, but you have no control over how individual apps are categorized. This is a much better option if you want to know exactly where to find each app.

If you’re struggling to come up with good folder name ideas for this home screen layout, you can also use emoticons to quickly and colorfully represent each one.

Two page priorities

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It’s best to always have your most important apps close at hand. The easiest way to do this is to add your favorite four apps to the Dock and then prioritize the other most important apps on your first home screen.

Then add everything else to separate folders on the other side of the home screen so everything is just a swipe away. Alternatively, use just one home screen and move everything else to the app library.

Quick access

You probably have many apps installed on your iPhone. To make it easier to keep track of what’s important and take common actions faster, you can use the widgets provided by your core apps.

This is especially true for the interactive widgets on your iPhone and iPad that Apple introduced with iOS 17. With interactive widgets, you may not need to open an app to perform an action if it is offered through the widget.

Simply tap on any empty space on your home screen and then tap on plus (+) in the upper left corner, find and select the widgets you want to add. Add important apps that don’t have dedicated widgets to the dock.

Using corners

You probably have a few apps that you use more often than others on your phone. While you can put a handful of them in the Dock, wouldn’t it be nicer to have quick access to them all? Consider using the corners of your phone for easy access to apps.

With this screen layout, you’ll have two apps in each corner. Arrange them however you like; you can group them by app category or color, for example. Once you’ve done that, you can add three or four more in the Dock.

While Apple used to limit how much you could customize your home screen, you now have a lot more options than before. With some creative thinking and simple tricks, you can make your device really stand out. You are not limited to these home screen layout ideas for your iPhone; feel free to get inspired and make small adjustments to suit your preferences to create the best iPhone home screen layout.