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iPhone User Guide

Make your iPhone your own

You can tailor your iPhone to your own interests and preferences. Personalize your Lock Screen, customize the appearance of apps on your Home Screen, keep your favorite features like magnifier and remote handy, change the sounds and vibrations for calls and messages, and more.

👁 A customized Home Screen with tinted icons.

Customize app icons on your Home Screen

You can change the look and feel of app icons on your Home Screen. Choose between light or dark, an all-new clear option, or tinted your favorite color.

Touch and hold the background on any Home Screen page until the apps jiggle. Tap Edit, tap Customize, then choose from the different appearance options.

👁 The iPhone Lock Screen showing options to add widgets, adjust the wallpaper and size of the clock, and swap out controls at the bottom of the screen.

Personalize your Lock Screen

You can showcase a favorite photo, then add a depth effect to turn it into a spatial scene. You can also add widgets, adjust the size of the clock, or swap out the controls at the bottom of the screen for other options—like Timer or Voice Memo.

Touch and hold the Lock Screen, then tap 👁 the Add New button
at the bottom of the screen. Browse the gallery of wallpaper options, then tap an option to select it and customize its appearance.

👁 The iPhone Control Center.

Set your favorite controls

Many iPhone features—like the timer and flashlight—are just a swipe away in Control Center. To quickly open Control Center on an iPhone with Face ID, swipe down from the top-right edge; on an iPhone with a Home button, swipe up from the bottom of the screen.

After you open Control Center, tap 👁 the Add New button
. Tap Add a Control at the bottom of the screen, then swipe up to view the controls gallery. When you see a control you want to add, tap it.

👁 The Photos, Maps, and Music widgets on the iPhone Home Screen. The Music widget displays interactive features.

Add widgets to your Home Screen

Widgets let you easily see the information that’s most important to you, like the current weather and upcoming calendar events. You can also complete tasks—for example, check off an item in your Reminders to-do list, or play a song in Music.

Touch and hold the background on any Home Screen page until the apps jiggle, tap Edit, then tap Add Widget.

👁 The screen to create a unique Contact Poster.

Customize your phone calls

Create your own unique call poster to personalize what people see when you call them. Choose your favorite photo or emoji, pair it with your preferred font, then add colors to make it pop. When you make a phone call, your call poster appears on the screen of the person you’re calling.

To get started, open the Contacts app 👁 Image
, tap your name, then tap Shared Name and Photo.

👁 The Sounds and Haptics screen in Settings.

Choose sounds and vibrations

iPhone can play different sounds and vibrations for phone calls, text messages, calendar alerts, and other notifications. Go to Settings 👁 Image
 > Sounds & Haptics.

You can also change the sounds iPhone plays for certain people; in the Contacts app 👁 Image
, tap a person’s name, tap Edit, then tap Ringtone or Text Tone.

👁 The Accessibility screen in Settings showing the built-in features for Vision support.

Use built-in accessibility features

iPhone provides many accessibility features to support your vision, mobility, hearing, speech, and cognitive needs. Change text size, make it easier to use the touchscreen, control your iPhone with just your voice, and more.

To customize these settings, go to Settings 👁 Image
 > Accessibility.

👁 The Privacy & Security screen in Settings.

Check your privacy settings

iPhone is designed to protect your privacy and information. You can grant or deny apps permission to track your activity across other companies’ apps and websites. To deny requests from apps to track your activity, go to Settings 👁 Image
 > Privacy & Security, tap Tracking, then turn off Allow Apps to Request to Track.

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