IPhone all icons. 9 Ways to Add an App Back to Home Screen on iPhone and Android
Ways to Add an App Back to Home Screen on iPhone and Android
Did you accidentally delete an app from the home screen of your phone? Or did it go missing from the home screen? Don’t worry. If the app has been removed but not deleted, you can easily add it back to the home screen on your iPhone and Android.
The solutions mentioned in this post will work for both third-party and pre-installed apps like Camera, Messages, browser, Phone, Contacts, etc. Let’s check different methods to add apps back to the home screen.
Look for the App Inside the Folders
If an app has gone missing from your iPhone or Android phone, start by looking in the folders on your phone’s home screen. You might have accidentally moved the app to a folder. If you find the app inside any folder, simply long-press it and then drag it to the home screen.
Tip: Folders can also have multiple screens. Try swiping left or right within a folder to see all the apps.
Add the App From App Library or App Drawer
On both Android and iPhone, you have a separate screen where you will find all your installed apps. It’s known as App Library on iPhone and App drawer on Android.
If you can’t find an app on the home screen, you should look in the App library or App drawer.
Restore iPhone App to Home Screen From App Library
Step 1: On your iPhone, swipe left multiple times until you reach the last page of the home screen where you will see the App Library.
Step 2: On the App Library screen, swipe down to open the search.
Step 3: Type the name of the missing app.
Step 4: Once it shows up in the search result, long-press it and select ‘Add to home’. If you don’t see the ‘Add to home’ button, don’t worry. Just long-press the app and drag it to the home screen.
Restore Android App From App Drawer
Step 1: Swipe up on the home screen to open the App Drawer. On some Android phones, you will have to tap on the All apps button on the home screen.
Step 2: Find the app that you want to restore. You can use the search at the top to quickly find the missing app.
Step 3: When you find the app, touch and hold it, and drag it to the home screen.
Unhide a Page (iPhone Only)
On iPhone, you can completely hide a home screen page. Doing so will also hide the apps on that page. You have guessed it right. You might have accidentally hidden a home screen page on your iPhone.
To unhide a page, follow these steps:
Step 1: Touch and hold any empty space on your iPhone’s home screen until the icons start jiggling.
Step 2: Tap on the page dots at the bottom.
Step 3: Tap on the selection box under the page that you want to show on your home screen. That’s it. Go back and the page will show up on the home screen.
Enable Apps (Android)
On Android phones, you can disable stock apps that cause them to disappear from the home screen and App Drawer. So if you can’t find an app, you might have disabled it.
Step 1: Go to Settings Apps.
Step 2: Tap on the app that you want to enable.
Step 3: Press the Enable button. The app will show up in the App Drawer.
Step 4: To add the app back, drag it from the App Drawer to the home screen.
Turn off Content Restriction (iPhone)
If you can’t find the app icon either in the App drawer or on the home screen of your iPhone, there are chances that you have enabled content restrictions for the app. When you do so, the app icon disappears from your iPhone.
To enable the app on iPhone, go to Settings Screen Time Content privacy restrictions Allowed apps. Turn off the toggle next to the app whose icon doesn’t show up. For instance, if the Camera app is missing from your iPhone, disable the toggle next to the Camera.
Unhide Apps (Android)
Many Android phones like Samsung Galaxy phones allow you to hide apps on your phone. If the app icon doesn’t show up on your phone, you should try unhiding it.
To unhide an app on a Samsung Galaxy phone, go to Settings Home screen Hide apps on Home and apps screen. Tap on the (-) Remove icon on the app under the Hidden apps section to unhide it. Press the Done button at the bottom.
Unlink Home Screen from Focus (iPhone)
If the entire home screen keeps disappearing from your iPhone, you might have linked home screens to Focus profiles. Basically, you can set certain home screen pages to appear and others to disappear when you enable a particular Focus profile.
Step 1: Go to Settings Focus.
Step 2: Tap on each FOCUS profile one by one.
Step 3: Tap on Edit under the home screen preview in Customize screens section.
Step 4: Tap on the selection box under the selected home screen page to uncheck it.
Step 5: Now, repeat the steps for all Focus profiles.
Now, activating the Focus profile will not change home screens.
Reset Home Screen Layout (iPhone)
If you still can’t find and add the app, you should try resetting the home screen layout on iPhone. Doing so will restore all the stock Apple apps to their original location and delete any folders that you created.
Go to Settings General Transfer or Reset Reset Reset Home Screen Layout.
Pro Tip: You can also try resetting settings on iPhone and Android.
Reinstall and Add App Back to Home Screen
Lastly, if nothing helped, you should reinstall the app. For that, first, uninstall the app and then install it again from App Store (iPhone) and Google Play Store (Android). After reinstalling the app, you can easily add it to the home screen.
Create Home Screen Shortcuts
After you bring back the app to the main screen of your phone, learn how to add site shortcuts to the home screen on iPhone. Also, know how to create custom home screen shortcuts on Android.
Last updated on 02 November, 2022
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How to Hide Apps on an iPhone
The apps on your phone are a glimpse into your private life that you may not want your colleagues, friends, or family to see — let alone strangers peeking at your screen whenever you take out your phone in public. Learn how to boost your privacy by hiding apps on your iPhone, and level up your protection with dedicated mobile security for iOS.
Hide apps on your iPhone or iPad
Hiding apps on an iPhone or iPad is simple and can be done in a few different ways. If you want to hide a dating app, job-search portal, or health app — even if you just want a clean, uncluttered home screen — you need to know where to put your apps so that they’re hidden from view but still accessible when you need them.
If you have an Android phone, check out our guide to hiding apps on an Android.
First we’ll cover hiding individual iPhone apps. Then, we’ll look at concealing an entire screen of apps as well as ways to keep your apps from appearing in your phone’s search results.
Hide individual iPhone apps
To hide individual iOS apps, press and hold the app icon that you want to hide, tap Remove App from the menu that appears, and select Remove from Home Screen.
The app icon will now disappear. Note that apps removed from the home screen are not completely hidden — they’ll still be visible in your iPhone’s App Library and in an app search. So you can still find those hidden apps by going directly to your App Library.
Hide an entire page of apps from your iPhone’s home screen
If you want to clean up your iPhone so that only apps you regularly use appear, you can hide an entire page of apps in one fell swoop. Here’s how:
- Press and hold the Search button at the bottom of your home screen until your app icons start shaking.
- Tap on the series of dots at the bottom of the screen that has now replaced the Search button to zoom out and display all your home screen pages simultaneously.
- Tap the checkmark beneath the page of apps you want to hide so that the tick disappears. Then tap Done in the top-right corner.
Now the page (or pages) of apps you deselected will no longer be displayed on your iPhone or iPad home screen. If you change your mind, simply repeat the steps above, this time tapping the circle underneath the app page to redisplay it on your home screen.
Hide apps on your iPhone so they don’t show up in searches
If you want to hide an app from more than just a cursory flick through your home screen, you should also prevent it from showing up in iOS device searches.
Here’s how to hide apps from searches on an iPad or iPhone:
- Open your iOS Settings, tap on Siri Search, and select the app that you want to hide.
- Toggle off Show App in Search so it turns gray.
Although the app will no longer appear in searches, it’s still installed on your device, so this process won’t help free up space or speed up your iPhone. To help with that, you’ll need to delete the app completely.
And if you think an app is behaving maliciously, be sure to follow the steps for removing spyware or other malware from your iPhone. Then, protect your device with a free iOS security app. Or get a VPN for iOS to encrypt your internet traffic and help hide your iPhone’s location.
Unhide or find all hidden apps on your iPhone or iPad
All apps installed on your device can be found within your App Library — even those you’ve hidden from your home screen or from the search function. Here’s how to access or unhide hidden apps via the App Library:
- On your home screen, scroll right until you come to the final page displaying your App Library.
- Find the hidden app you want either by scrolling down to it or using the App Library search bar. If you just want to access the hidden app, simply tap it to open the app.
- To unhide the app and place it back on your home screen, tap and hold the app icon, drag it to the left, and release your finger to drop the app icon in your desired location.
If you previously hid the app using your device’s Siri Search feature, it still won’t show up in searches. To re-enable search visibility, follow the steps outlined here and toggle on Show App in Search (step two).
Secure your iPhone and iPad
Now that you’ve hidden your sensitive apps from prying eyes, it’s time to protect your personal information from hackers, trackers, and scammers. Avast One features a built-in Web Shield and VPN. And its secure photo vault will help protect the photos on your iPhone. Install Avast One today — completely free — to get powerful online security for your iPhone.
How to personalize your iPhone with custom widgets and icons
By using Shortcuts together with custom Widgets and the App Library, you can build a totally unique home screen look.
You no longer have to stare at a grid of icons every time you unlock your iPhone. Apple has finally given you the ability to customize the layout of your home screen so instead of just repositioning icons, you can totally remove them thanks to the App Library. And with a deep catalogue of home screen widgets, you can add something other than just apps too.
But iPhone customization goes a lot further. By combining Shortcuts with custom icons and widgets, you can give your iPhone a dramatically different look. Here’s how to get started making your iPhone truly yours.
First, grab some icons
Before you do anything else, you’ll want to grab some images to use as icons. There are lots of places to find icons on the web, just search for “iOS icons” or “iPhone icons” and dig around for something that suits you. Some are free, others (like Traf’s popular minimalist icons) are somewhat pricey, so spend some time looking around.
Once you find a set you like, you’ll want to add the icons to your Photos library. On your iPhone, long-press an image and choose “Add to Photos.” If you’ve got a Mac, you can drag images into your Photos app and access them on your iPhone.
Next, cut down your apps and home screens
Along with hiding apps, Apple has given users the ability to hide apps and even entire home screens so you can quickly clean things up. To hide an entire home screen, press on an empty part of the home screen until the apps start to wiggle. Then tap the pages icon above the dock. Images of all of your home screens will appear and you can tap the circle below any of them to show or hide them. If you want to remove an icon, long-press until the menu appears and then tap Remove App. On the next screen tap Remove from Home Screen.
Use Shortcuts to replace apps
The key to replacing all your app icons with your own designs is to replace your actual apps on your home screen with Shortcuts.
- Open the Shortcuts app (it comes installed on your iPhone).
- Tap the button in the upper right to make a new Shortcut.
- Tap Add Action.
- Tap Open App.
- Tap the word App and select the one you want this shortcut to open.
- Tap the settings icon in the upper right and select Add to Home Screen.
- Give your shortcut a name (the name of the app is a good idea).
- Tap the image to the left of the name and pick Choose Photo. Select the image from your Photos library you want to use as your new ico n. (If you want an actual icon photo, download one on your Mac and upload it to Photos.
- Tap Add in the upper right, and you’ll see a popup telling you the shortcut was added to the home screen.
Back on your home screen, you can see your new shortcut. If the original app icon is still on the home screen, long-press it, choose Remove App, and then Move to App Library to get it off your home screen.
Repeat that process for every app you want to keep on your home screen, and remove all the others, leaving them in your App Library.
There are three caveats to be aware of when replacing your apps with shortcuts in this way. First, you won’t get those little red notification badges in the corner of your shortcuts like you will on real apps. Second, when you launch an app from a shortcut, you’ll first see a brief Shortcuts banner notification pop up before the app launches. And third, you’ll lose the ability to long-press on the app icon to access whatever quick actions it has—the shortcut won’t have those.
Custom Widgets
To match your custom app icons, you’ll want some custom widgets. New apps like Widgetsmith and Color Widgets are popular options.
You’ll use the app to design your own widgets, choosing what information it will show, the fonts, colors, borders, and so on. Once you’ve got your widgets created, it’s time to add them to your home screen.
- Tap and hold on any empty area of your home screen until you enter “wiggle mode.”
- Tap the sign in the upper left of the screen.
- Select the Widgetsmith or Color Widgets app (or whatever custom widgets app you used) and the size of the widget you created.
- Tap Add Widget.
- Position the widget on the home screen, and while still in wiggle mode, tap it to change its options—you may have to choose the particular widget you’ve customized.
- Tap Done in the upper right to exit wiggle mode.
There are limits to what you can do with custom widgets right now, but the capabilities of these apps continues to expand.
If you’re willing to accept the limitations of using shortcuts to launch your apps and using custom widgets you can create some truly unique home screen looks!
iOS 16 Home Screen master class: 85 tips, tricks, and hidden features – do you know them all?
If you’ve been an iPhone user for any significant amount of time, chances are you’re well-versed in managing the iOS Home Screen. Seasoned veterans have no-doubt adopted best practices for managing Home Screen apps icons, interfacing with the App Library, widgets, etc. But here’s my challenge: Even if you consider yourself to be a Home Screen expert, you’ll likely find at least a few tips in this guide that you didn’t know before.
And if you’re new to the iPhone? Then this nearly one-hour walkthrough will help you wrangle the iOS Home Screen like never before in 4K60p HDR. Watch our hands-on video, and be sure to subscribe to 9to5mac on YouTube for more videos like this.
In this written post, I cherry-pick three of the items covered in this video that I think more seasoned iOS users might appreciate, but that’s just a small sample of what you’ll learn. If you want to see the entire walkthrough with all 85 tips, you can watch the embedded video below.
I’ve included handy time stamps so that you can consume the video in a non-linear fashion, if desired. In fact, if you click the links on the headers for each of the three tips below, you’ll jump directly to that spot in the embedded video.
Video: 85 iOS Home Screen tips, tricks, and hidden features
Step 1: Open Spotlight search and drag an icon from Spotlight suggestions or via a direct search query to the Home Screen.
Step 2: Continue holding the app icon, and enter edit mode.
Step 3: While still holding the app icon, tap the Home Screen page dots to enter the page editor.
Step 4: Drag and drop the app icon on a Home Screen page. You can specify the exact location on the page you choose, and even add the icon to folders.
Move multiple app icons
I’m always surprised to find out how few people realize that it’s possible to move multiple app icons on the Home Screen at once. For example, you can move a group of five icons from one spot on the Home Screen to another spot on the Home Screen. You can also move that same group of apps to a new Home Screen page, to a folder, or completely off the Home Screen and into the App Library.
There are many reasons why you’d want to move multiple app icons, and some of the more advanced tips covered in my video walkthrough, such as quick icon reordering, rely on this trick as a prerequisite.
Step 1: Enter edit mode.
Step 2: Tap, hold, and drag an app icon that you’d like to move.
Step 3: While still holding the first app icon, use your other hand to tap on another app icon. This will add the second app to the stack of app icons.
Step 4: Continue to add more icons to the stack by tapping on the apps that you wish to move.
Step 5: Move the app icons to the desired location, just like you’d do when moving a single app.
Step 6: Exit edit mode.
Home Screen edit interrupt
Have you ever been in the midst of moving an app icon, but then changed your mind? The next time this happens, use this handy Home Screen edit interrupt technique to quickly move your icons back to their previous location.
Step 1: Enter edit mode.
Step 2: Proceed with your Home Screen page edit (moving app icons, widgets, etc), but do not release your finger to solidify the changes.
Step 3: Before releasing your finger, exit edit mode. Your changes will be interrupted, and all items will go back to their previous locations, even if you moved multiple items between pages.
Conclusion
These three tips are just the tip of the iceberg as far as managing the Home Screen goes. Even advanced long-time iOS users will most likely learn a few new tips or tricks from the full in-depth video guide. Sound off down below, and let me know if you learned something new!
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All HTML Tutorials
To get started create an HTML file with the following basic code:
html head titleHTML Iconstitle head body h1HTML icons!h1 body html
Open it up in a browser. it should look like this:
The icon
In the examples today, we’ll be using this waffle icon that I made (with ice-cream on top of course ):
Browser tab icons (favicons)
If you take a look at the little icon on your tab right now (these are also known as favicons), it will just give us a boring default icon. nobody wants that!
Note that depending on what browser you’re using, the tabs and default icon might look slightly different. This and most of the other browser screenshots in this article are taken in Google Chrome.
So, let’s add our own one! Simply add this line of code inside your :
link rel=icon type=image/png sizes=64×64 href=https://codetheweb.blog/assets/img/posts/html-icons/icon64.png
The type attribute depends on the image we are using. In this case, we are using a.png file, so we’ll set our type to image/png. There are other type s you can use such as image/ico for.ico files.
Also, make sure that your icon is either 16px by 16px. 32px by 32px or 64px by 64px. You need to make sure that the actual image has those dimensions as well as the sizes attribute. you can resize your images online. Note that other sizes also work, but they are not supported by all browsers. In this case, our image is 64px by 64px. I recommend that you use this size because it is the highest resolution out of the three.
Anyway, here is the result:
There is now an icon next to our page title!
Safari home screen and bookmark icons
If we add our website to the home screen on iOS, it will give us a very ugly and weirdly-sized screenshot by default:
Let’s add our own icon instead! To do so, add this line below your favicon line in your :
link rel=Apple-touch-icon sizes=180×180 href=https://codetheweb.blog/assets/img/posts/html-icons/icon180.png
As you can see, this is very similar to how we declare our favicon, except that we use Apple-touch-icon as the rel attribute instead. Make sure that your icon is always 180px by 180px.
Now if we add it to the home screen again, we get a much better result!
This also gives our website an icon for Safari bookmarks on iOS:
Android icons
Websites can also be added to the home screen using Google Chrome on Android. Luckily, we don’t need to specify icons just for Android! It will either use the favicon or an Apple-touch-icon if you have one.
Windows tiles
On Windows, if you don’t know already, there are these things called tiles:
They are also used on Windows phones:
As you can see in the photos above, we also need to create a rectangular version of our logo, for when the tile is rectangular. Here is a rectangular version of the waffle that I made:
In our HTML, we need to define this icon as well as three square icon sizes: 70px by 70px. 150px by 150px and 310px by 310px. Our rectangular icon needs to be 310px wide by 150px high.
One important thing though: When making icons for Windows tiles, always have a transparent background.
Here are our icons but with a transparent background:
Here is the HTML. add it below your Safari icon and favicon in the :
meta name=msapplication-square70x70logo content=https://codetheweb.blog/assets/img/posts/html-icons/icon70.png meta name=msapplication-square150x150logo content=https://codetheweb.blog/assets/img/posts/html-icons/icon150.png meta name=msapplication-square310x310logo content=https://codetheweb.blog/assets/img/posts/html-icons/icon310.png meta name=msapplication-wide310x150logo content=https://codetheweb.blog/assets/img/posts/html-icons/icon-rect-310.png
These are slightly different to the icon types we’ve discussed so far, because they use tags instead of tags.
But if the icons have a transparent background, won’t it look weird? Yes. The reason that they need to have a transparent background is so that Windows can put a color beneath them. Take this tile as an example:
Here, the map icon would be the image (with a transparent background), and then Windows would put the pink/purple color beneath it. But how do we tell Windows which color? This is where the msapplication-TileColor meta tag comes in handy. In this case our waffle icon background hex color is #2e2e2e. With that in mind, add this line underneath our icons inside the :
meta name=msapplication-TileColor content=#2e2e2e
Here is the result of the icons and tile color meta tags:
The final HTML
After all of that, here is what our final HTML should look like (with Комментарии и мнения владельцев added for clarity):
html head titleHTML Iconstitle link rel=icon type=image/png sizes=64×64 href=https://codetheweb.blog/assets/img/posts/html-icons/icon64.png link rel=Apple-touch-icon sizes=180×180 href=https://codetheweb.blog/assets/img/posts/html-icons/icon180.png meta name=msapplication-square70x70logo content=https://codetheweb.blog/assets/img/posts/html-icons/icon70.png meta name=msapplication-square150x150logo content=https://codetheweb.blog/assets/img/posts/html-icons/icon150.png meta name=msapplication-square310x310logo content=https://codetheweb.blog/assets/img/posts/html-icons/icon310.png meta name=msapplication-wide310x150logo content=https://codetheweb.blog/assets/img/posts/html-icons/icon-rect-310.png meta name=msapplication-TileColor content=#2e2e2e head body h1HTML icons!h1 body html
If you’re too lazy…
There is this awesome website called Real Favicon Generator which generates favicons, Safari icons, Windows icons and more for you. However, I recommend that you don’t use this until you are quite confident with doing it yourself. otherwise, you will never learn. That said, you can always look it up if you need. So it’s up to you.
Conclusion
Woo! That’s all there is for today. Hopefully, you learned something! If you did, I’d love it if you shared it or signed up to the newsletter to get new posts in your inbox. If you do either of these things, you are awesome and deserve a space-taco if that’s even a thing!
I talked about icons for lots of different platforms today, and you don’t have to use all of them. although it’s a good idea. But for a start, you could just try getting used to favicons (the first part).
If you need help, have feedback or wanna say hi then I’d be stoked if you did so in the Комментарии и мнения владельцев below.
Next time, I’ll be doing a special post on Quick-reference sites to help you along your coding journey. See you then!
