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Minimal iPhone home screen ideas

Every setup on this page follows one rule: the home screen shows words instead of icons. Your apps become a short text list inside a widget, and the rest of the screen stays empty. Here are six ways that can look.

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  • Messages
  • Kindle
  • Spotify
  • Notes
  • Maps

Midnight, five apps

The starting point. A near-black widget on a black wallpaper, a clock, and the five apps you actually use. Everything else lives in the App Library.

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  • Messages
  • Kindle
  • Phone
  • Camera

Warm paper

Cream ground, serif type. This one reads like a page from a book, which is a useful reminder of what you would rather be doing.

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Clock only

The list stays folded behind the clock until you tap. Most of the day, your home screen tells the time and nothing else.

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The time, spelled out

Numbers read fast and words read slow. Writing the time out in letters takes the urgency out of checking your phone.

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  • Messages
  • Notes
  • Mail
  • Calendar

Typewriter

Monospaced type on a warm dark ground. Good if your phone is mostly a writing and reading tool.

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  • Messages
  • Spotify
  • Camera
  • Maps

Poster

Tall, thin type on white. The loudest of the six, and still quieter than a single app icon.

How to get this look

  1. Install Still and pick the apps you want on your home screen.
  2. Press and hold an empty part of your home screen, tap Edit, then Add Widget, and search for Still.
  3. Move your old app icons off the first page. They stay in the App Library, one swipe away.
  4. Pick a look inside the app. One choice restyles every widget you placed.

Every setup above uses the same app. $12.99, paid once, and the first seven days have everything unlocked.

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