How to remove all icons from the home screen iOS 7 without jailbreaking

Everyone knows that on the iPhone screen can hold 20 apps icon, plus the 4 icons in the dock. Thoughtful and informed decision. Whether their less - would have had a lot of flipping, more - they would have looked very small and made it difficult to perception. To increase the number, unfortunately can not be, but if the 20 icons are too much for you, you can fully remove them, leaving only 4 icons in the dock, thereby emphasizing the wallpaper and making the home screen minimalist. This will help us a little trick that I'll tell you.

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What do we give such a clearance? Mostly it will give your desktop to your iPhone clean, minimalistic look, well, will allow you to freely enjoy the wallpaper. Many of us set as a wallpaper photo of the girl, a wife or children, and application icons, in this case cover him and spoil the entire beauty. But even in the case of ordinary wallpaper (not the photo), images locked icons and for this reason, we We have to put as wallpaper of the home screen different textures and gradients - their icons are not spoil.

How to remove the icon from the main screen

For this procedure, we will need a computer with iTunes and three minutes of your time. I'll show how to do this on a Mac, but also it should work in Windows.

1. Open iTunes and connect your iPhone to your computer via USB / Lightning cable or Wi-Fi.

2. Choosing our iPhone in the sidebar and go to the tab Programs.

3. In section Householdscreens press + To add a new desktop.

4. Drag the new desktop of the end of the list to the top - of n pageHe immediately renamed in Page 1.

5. Hit apply in order to confirm the changes.

Everything. Now disable the device, unlock it as usual and go to your home screen swipe or touch on the desktop display. Long live minimalism!

How to return the home screen

The main screen will be blank, even if you put to any application and then uncheck it. To return to the original view, connect your iPhone to your computer, insert the first page to the end of the list and apply the changes. If you want to re-clean the home screen, the procedure will have to be repeated again.

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That's without any tweaks, phishing web icons, jailbreaking or other modifications to the device can make a clean home screen of your iOS-device.

This trick works accurately with iTunes 11.1.3 and iOS 7. Most did not have anything at hand, so if you can - check and unsubscribe in the comments, how things are going with previous iOS versions.