Tweak the Home Screen
iOS 18 and iPadOS 18 introduce many new options to adjust your Home Screen. You can now lock and even hide sensitive apps from prying eyes. You can easily transform an app shortcut into a widget and back again. And there are many new options for customization.
Lock and Hide Apps
You can lock apps so they cannot be opened without authenticating with Face ID or Touch ID, which adds an extra layer of security to sensitive apps related to things like banking and journaling.
Additionally, you can also hide an app so that it doesn’t appear on the Home Screen. Instead, it’s moved to an obscured Hidden folder in the ...
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