Over the years, iOS has added dozens of functions that help us to adapt the iPhone to us. Our customs and lifestyle can be seen reflected in customize iOS 15 on iPhone, taking advantage of the fact that the latest version has just been released. In this article we have compiled the seven best ways to do it.
Customize your iPhone with these iOS 15 tricks
Create a shortcut with double tap
Accessibility features are packed with secrets that can be exploited to personalize iPhone. So the double tap on the iPhone is a function with which we can certain things of the system giving it two or three taps on the back. To activate it, we go to Settings> Accessibility> Touch> Touch back and choose Press twice or Triple press.
There we will see a list of actions that can be automated. In my case, I have activated the flashlight with two taps, to turn it on quickly. We can also use it for any of the shortcuts that we have created.
Customize the wallpaper in Safari
One of the main novelties of iOS 15 is the Safari home screen. Now we can customize it thoroughly, adding, removing or rearranging the sections that interest us. And among these improvements, there is also the Safari wallpaper.
To change it or put the one you want, follow these steps:
- Open Safari on your iPhone with iOS 15.
- Open a new tab and go to the end.
- Click on the Edit button.
- At the end of the listing, there is a button to activate the background image.
By doing so, you will see how 9 default wallpapers appear. They are not bad, but always it is better to be able to put your own. Click on the plus button to be able to search for one of your roll of photos that you like. And ready. This background will appear in Safari on all your Apple devices.
Change the icons of your apps
Since iOS 14, iPhone users can customize the icon of our apps. A later update it has even sped up the way these shortcuts are executed, being automatic and without intermediate jumps. Therefore, simply create a shortcut to an app to create a custom icon.
First, you need to find and download the icons you want to use on your iPhone. In Reddit you can find compilations, although in sites like Etsy they also have many of them for payment, as well as in IconScout or FlatIcon, which are free.
Modifying the icons of several or all of your apps is quite tedious, but you can get very good results
When you have them, it’s time to open Shortcuts and follow these steps:
- You create a new shortcut with the plus symbol and add the Open app action.
- Give it the name of the app and in the settings you give Add to home screen.
- There you can put the name of the app again and choose its icon from the reel.
When you put it away you will have a personalized shortcut in iOS 15 for your app. You can hide the real one in a folder or put it in the app library so it doesn’t bother you.
Create custom widgets on your iPhone
Related to the above are customizable iOS widgets. An app called Widgetsmith allows you to create custom widgets on your iPhone, creating entire areas that fit to what we want. As an additional twist, we can program these widgets to rotate at certain times of the day.
Modify your Memoji to the maximum
iOS 15 brings new possibilities to personalize your Memoji. Apple has added support for put up to 40 types of clothes with three default colors. Accessibility options such as oxygen tubes or hearing implants have also been added. More glasses, new stickers, two-colored eyes and hats in up to three colors complete the set.
To create your personalized Memoji, you must go to Messages, select the Memoji app and add a new one. There we will be presented with all kinds of options, among which are those mentioned. To save it, we click OK and it will be saved in our gallery.
Use concentration modes
Concentration modes are one of the great novelties specific to iOS 15. With them, we can customize notifications that come to us, depending on the person who sends them, schedule these modes at certain days and times, as well as choose which apps are visible on the home screen.
In addition to the traditional Do Not Disturb and Rest, we can create others for different situations. When we are at work, you can hide apps from social networks and limit their notifications. If we return home and want to disconnect, we mute notifications from work and let only those of family and friends enter.
All this you can program it so that the home screen and notifications are automatically configured at certain times of the day. So you get an extra in your customizations.
Automate wallpaper change
With Shortcuts we can do a multitude of things. Even make the iPhone wallpaper change automatically, personalizing your iPhone a little more. If we combine the concentration modes with the shortcuts, we can also automate the change of wallpaper.
So, when we activate Work, we can make our iPhone show a corporate wallpaper, sober or whatever we want. And when we are done with this mode, the wallpaper would change again. With this, we give a new feeling when using the iPhone, personalizing its appearance a little more.
To do this, just download a shortcut that automates the change of wallpaper from an album in Photos. AutoWall is one of the easiest to configure. Of course, We must take care of creating the album in Photos, name it and fill it with wallpapers. With the homework done, we will do the following:
- We open Shortcuts and go to the Automation section.
- We slide to the end and choose the mode of concentration we want. In the example, Work. We can decide if we will execute it by activating or deactivating this mode.
- We will add the action “Execute shortcut”, which we can search in the search engine. Then we choose AutoWall as the shortcut to run.
- Click on next and OK to end the automation.
And ready. When you activate or deactivate the work mode (or associate the automation to a specific time), your wallpaper will change automatically. Of course, this is a perfect fit for modes of concentration.