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Description: Using User-Selectable App Icons in iOS 10.3 & Higher Full Tutorial: bit.ly/ChangeIcons Subscribe to Gadget Hacks: goo.gl/XagVI When it comes to customizing your home screen, Apple provides few options to do so. You can change text size and boldness, choose between two different app icon sizes, remove badges, change your wallpaper, and other minor tweaks that iOS lets you perform. What you cannot do is change an app’s icon to whatever you want, at least, not without some hard work on your Mac using the Apple Configurator 2 app. Using Apple Configurator: bit.ly/YourOwnIcons There is, however, another option that’s starting to pick up steam, which let’s you change app icons on your home screen with just a few taps. Ever since iOS 10.3, Apple has given developers a way to let their users change their app’s home screen icon. The feature is called “user-selectable app icons,” and it’s not a required item in order to get an app into the App Store. It’s completely optional for developers, and many have been slow to jump on the bandwagon since there’s a lot of extra work involved in getting them ready for users since they need to work across all iOS devices with different screen sizes and resolutions. At first, many developers charged a small fee in order to select different icons, but there are more and more free options popping up everyday in the App Store. List of Supported Apps: bit.ly/ChangeIcons Finding apps that support user-selectable app icons isn’t very easy, but we’ve compiled a list on Gadget Hacks that lists all of the ones we know about, and we continually update the list as we find more. So make sure to visit Gadget Hacks to view the complete list. Once you have an app that supports user-selectable app icons, there are variable ways to choose the icons you want. Check out the video to see all the ways. Follow Gadget Hacks on: Facebook: facebook.com/gadgethacks Twitter: twitter.com/GadgetHax Flipboard: flip.it/mF4IuP