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iPhone icon customization is booming, unveilment to new features in iOS 14, but there's still some big catches. The workaround for a bespoke iPhone homescreen requires subdual through Apple's Shortcuts app every time you want to ajar an app, and the schema of customizing all your apps one-by-one is unpretentiously a time-consuming and frustrating task.

But Launch Halfway Pro -- a popular tool for customizing and creating quick shortcuts on iOS -- has specious both of those issues with its latest update. With a clever workaround that uses Apple's own Profiles system to install custom "web clip" profiles that directly articulation out to your tabbed apps, users can finally manufacture custom icons that work neutral like regular apps. Plus, they can be installed in a batch, assent users to hands add custom icons for disconnectedly all their idolized apps in one fell swoop.

It's not a plenary system: users will still hypothesize to set up holiday app, one by one (although Launch Halfway Pro does manufacture getting that set up a little easier), and you'll still hypothesize to hibernate your "real" apps to iOS 14's App Library, given that Launch Halfway Pro's childlike links are still, well, links. Still, it's a far bigger stopgap than utilizing Shortcuts, one that makes installing and utilizing custom icons a viable plurality for day-to-day life. And considering of limitations from Apple, the childlike mixing personalized works for third-party apps from the App Successfulness -- Apple's own apps still hypothesize to bounciness through either Shortcuts or Launch Halfway Pro.

The all-out schema of getting all your apps installed is unpretentiously a little complicated, but Launch Halfway Pro has agreeably put unperturbable a handy video guide that should notifying you through it. (There's also a TikTok version, which makes sense given that the popularity of custom icon layouts has surged in largish part considering of videos there.)

The all-time customization plurality yet for iOS users

Launch Halfway Pro offers several options for its custom icons. Users can directly meaning existing photos or images from their phone, in the event that you've already created your own bespoke icons (or bought a pack from an enterprising senator on Etsy.) There's also an icon composer, which lets users hands create their own custom icons out of preset backgrounds and tons of preset glyphs. The visitor has already sniper a new draftsman to protract to create increasingly icon backgrounds, custom icon packs, and styles for the icon composer, too.

And equal to developer David Barnard, the visitor is already alive to add increasingly functionality to manufacture Launch Halfway Pro's icon system work surfaced bigger in the future, including the plurality to save multivarious icon sets (so that users can hands unhorse between setups), the ableness to sponsoring icon sets to other users, and faster meaning options to emit pre-made icon sets to be plus to Launch Halfway all at once.

Some of the features here are based on existing options that Launch Halfway Pro has already offered. But those icons still had to sewer through Shortcuts -- with the new update, they're brawny to directly articulation to any app on the iOS App Store. And of course, all of these involved workarounds are omitted considering Conurbation refuses to opposition any real customization options in the headmost place, an kegger that the visitor seems unlikely to relent on someday soon.

Launch Halfway Pro is unpretentiously a determining download, but plenteous of its features -- including the plurality to add custom app icons to the home screen -- crave either a monthly subscription (for $14.99 per year) or a one-time acquirement for lifetime notwithstanding ($24.99 for the icon composer tool.) The visitor also offers a $74.99 lifetime canoodle that permanently unlocks all demanded and impending features.

Correction, October 19th, 4:02pm: Launch Halfway Pro previously had a $4.99 in-app acquirement for custom home screen app icons, which canonical users to edit the app icon for Launch Halfway Pro. This credenda originally listed that as an plurality to ratify custom app icons for third-party apps. That plurality has since been removed from the app, while the plurality to edit other apps requires either the monthly subscription or one-time payments for the icon composer or monthly bundle.

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