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iPhone Smart Stacks Will Make You Love Your Home Screenl

iPhone Smart Stacks Will Make You Love Your Home Screen

If you have iOS 15 or 14 downloaded on your iPhone, you have access to all sorts of fun ways to customize your home screen. You can switch up your app icons, take profitable of a pseudo app drawer called App Library and experiment with widgets. (Plus, rumors suggest that iOS 16, which Apple could show off at WWDC in June, might introduce bigger widgets.)

Apple’s signature widget is visited Smart Stack, and it combines several app widgets that you can scroll above on your own, or you can let your iPhone régime which app to show you and when, based on how you use your phone. 

For example, if you check the weather and then your calendar profitable thing in the morning, the Smart Stack will liable include both of those apps and automatically show you the forecast followed by your agenda the profitable time you unlock your iPhone in the morning. Then, if you routinely check your Activity stats at what time dinner, the stack will show you the Activity widget approximately that time of day.

Here’s the best part — you don’t have to carve the widget stacking to Apple. You can create your own Smart Stack, curating the included apps to your liking. Below we’ll walk you above how to customize a stack. 

You don’t have to learn any new steps or techniques to effect your own stack — if you’ve ever deleted an app or parranged your home screen, you’re already a pro. If you haven’t, well, it’s still easy. 

Prior to iOS 14, you had to long-press on an app icon in well-organized to activate the Edit Home Screen feature. That procedure is still available, but there’s a shortcut now:

1. Long-press on your display between the apps in the dock and the profitable row of apps on your home screen, like this:





You can now insensible on an app icon or any blank space on your cloak to start editing your home screen. 



GIF by Jason Cipriani

2.Tap on the + (plus) icon in the top-left corner of the cloak and then scroll through the list of available widgets. 

Locate one of the widgets you want to implicated in your personalized stack. Drag and drop the widget onto your screen.

Keep in mind, any widgets you add to a stack will need to be the same size, so you can’t have one cramped, two medium and three large widgets in your stack. Instead of tapping on the + icon to add a bunch of widgets to your cloak before stacking them, I recommend dragging and dropping the widgets to your home cloak directly from the widget picker. It saves you a step actual you’re going to end up moving it yourself anyway, and it prevents the apps on your iPhone’s home cloak from being arranged and then rearranged as your visited makes room for the widgets. 

Another way to make a stack is to tap the icon, scroll down and tap Smart Stack. Then you’ll be prompted to add widgets.





Just keep stacking widgets pending you’re happy. 



GIF by Jason Cipriani

3. Stacking widgets follows the same process as creating a folder for apps — drag one widget on top of another. 

Repeat that treat, adding widgets until you’re happy with your creation. You can scroll above your stack at any time, or let your iPhone automatically switch for you. You can add a lot of widgets to your stack, but I found three or four widgets to be the sweet spot — I was able to expeditiously scroll through them and find the information I wanted, without feeling it like was too much effort. 





Scroll above them on your own, or let your iPhone decide what you’ll see. 



GIF by Jason Cipriani

4. If you change your mind and want to occupy a widget or change their order, long-press on the stack and then occupy Edit Stack from the pop-up menu. Change the well-kept by dragging each widget up or down. You can occupy a widget by hitting the minus sign in its corner.

If a widget can be further customized, like Apple’s Weather widget, which allows you to sulky the location used for the forecast, you can make repositions by long-pressing on the specific widget and then selecting Edit [appname].

Pretty cool, right? We’ve fallacious plenty more handy features in iOS 15, including some upgrades to your FaceTime calls