![]() Literally type it in and tap on the option for Nothing. ![]() When you press Add Action it will bring up that search page again and this time we’re going to search for ‘nothing’. So we’ll press Next in the top corner, and we’ll add our all-important action. This means anytime I open BBC News this Shortcut will run. So I’m going to press on here and choose BBC News again. I’m then going to choose a Personal Automation and I’m going to scroll down the list of different triggers until I find the one that’s simply called App.įrom here we’re going to make the trigger run when the app is opened, and we can choose the app we want this to apply to. Now we’re back on the Home Screen at the bottom we can press Automation. So we’ll jump back into Shortcuts and we’re going to press Done and then Close to leave the Shortcut we were just working on. Now it’s not the end of the world, but we can actually clean up our iPhone and get rid of that if we wanted to. ![]() If I tap onto my new icon (which is the old icon – oh that’s confusing!) if I press the red one it will open BBC News just like this.īut as great as that is there’s that annoying banner at the top of the screen that tells me Shortcuts is running in the background. So I’m going to press Add in the top corner and that will then jump me back to my Home Screen.Īnd you’ll now see my new Shortcut is there right next to the old BBC News icon, and at this point you can probably see why I’m confused about why they changed the icon so dramatically! You can see that the preview is updated and it looks just like the old BBC News app – which is exactly what I wanted! Now all that’s left to do is the icon, and if we tap on the placeholder to the left hand side we can then go into our Photos App and choose that icon I showed you earlier. So we’re going to press that top menu option called ‘Add to Home Screen’ and from here we get a preview at the top of our screen as to what our new icon and name will look like.Īt the moment it’s called ‘BBC News Icon’, but if I rename that below just to BBC News you’ll see the preview update at the top in real time. This is where the clever bit comes in, with adding it to your Home Screen. When you’ve done that your Shortcut is pretty much complete – all you need to do is press the Settings button in the top right hand corner. When that action comes up just tap on it, and then from there you can choose the app you want to open. Now from here you’re going to search and you just want to type in ‘Open App’. Give it a name that you’ll remember – so for me ‘BBC News Icon’ seems perfect.Īnd then what we want to do is to press the Add Action button. In the top right corner press the Plus button, and you’re going to name your Shortcut. Now ,if you haven’t got Shortcuts already you can grab it from the App Store and it’s completely free (made by Apple) and it’s a really handy app.Īnd although Shortcuts can do a lot of very complicated things, today we’re going to use it for a really simple purpose. It could be hand drawn, it could be a picture from the internet, it could be an icon pack that you found somewhere and download it – but make sure it’s in your Photos app ready to go. So if I jump into the Photos app you’ll see I’ve got a screenshot there of the old BBC News icon.Īs long as your image is square it can be anything you like. Of course you’ll need to have a new icon to replace the old one with. This icon recently changed from a very easy to spot red icon to this, well, bizarre black and red combination thing. We can use this technique to replace any app icon on your iPhone (even the Apple apps that are built in) and for me I’m going to change the icon for BBC News. Hi, Jacob here and today I’m going to teach you how you can replace app icons on your iPhone,Īnd even better still I’ll show you a way to hide that annoying Shortcut banner that comes down at the screen if you don’t do it properly.
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