Enabling Focus Mode on Your iPhone for a Cleaner Home Screen Experience

Have you ever wished to have a clutter-free home screen on your iPhone? You can achieve this by enabling Focus mode, which allows you to select specific apps that will be visible on your home screen when this feature is enabled. To do this, go to Settings > Control Center and toggle on the switch next to "Focus." This will open up the Focus settings page where you can choose from various focus modes.

To access the Focus settings page, open the Control Center by swiping down from the top right corner of your screen or double-tapping the Home button. Then, tap on the Focus mode icon (it looks like a clock) and select "Enable." You will then be asked to allow notifications from certain apps. Select any app you'd like to see notifications from when you have this mode enabled, click Allow, and then click Done. You're now ready to go.

Next, you need to decide which apps will be visible on your home screen when Focus mode is enabled. Go to Home Screen and toggle off the switch next to "Hide Badges" so that notification badges aren't displayed on your apps. Then, tap on Custom Pages and select the page that you want to be visible when Focus mode is enabled. You can choose from three pages, and for this example, we'll make only one page visible.

Once you've selected the page you want to be visible, click Done. Now, when you enable Focus mode and toggle it on in the Control Center, your chosen page will appear on your home screen. To access Focus mode from the Home Screen, open the Settings app, go to Control Center, and toggle on the switch next to "Focus." Then, tap on the Focus mode icon and select Enable.

Another way to enable Focus mode is by using a Quick Action. This method allows you to enable Focus mode directly from the Home Screen without having to go into the Control Center or Settings app. To do this, go to Home Screen and tap on the Focus mode icon (it looks like a clock). You will then be asked to allow notifications from certain apps. Select any app you'd like to see notifications from when you have this mode enabled, click Allow, and then click Done.

To set up your Quick Action, go back to Home Screen and long-press on the Focus mode icon until it starts jiggling. Then, tap on the "Edit" button in the top-right corner of the screen. Select "Add Action" and choose "Focus Mode." Tap on "Add" to save your new action.

Now that you have a Quick Action set up, go back to Home Screen and long-press on the Focus mode icon until it starts jiggling. Then, tap on the "Edit" button in the top-right corner of the screen and select "Focus Mode." Tap on "Select Action" and choose your newly created action.

Using this method allows you to enable Focus mode directly from the Home Screen without having to go into the Control Center or Settings app.

To make the most out of Focus mode, you'll want to customize it to suit your needs. One way to do this is by hiding apps from the initial view on the home screen. To do this, head over to the Screen Time settings and enable the Content Restrictions feature. Once you enter the passcode, tap on Allow Apps and select the apps you'd like to hide. For example, if you want to completely hide your camera app, select it here.

When you re-enable Focus mode after hiding these apps, they won't be searchable through the OS, and they'll disappear from the home screen. This feature is especially useful for parents who want to restrict their child's access to certain apps or social media platforms.

However, there's another method to hide apps that might come in handy for those who have third-party applications like social media apps that you'd like to permanently hide. To do this, go into the app settings and enable Content Restrictions. Then, select "Apps" and choose the age limit. For example, if you want to hide all social media apps for users under 18, select "Age 9" here.

Keep in mind that when you disable Focus mode or re-enable it after hiding your apps, they might rearrange themselves on your home screen again. This can be a bit inconvenient, so keep this in mind before using this method.

Finally, if you want to hide an app based on age but don't have any third-party applications that meet the criteria, you can still do so by selecting "No Apps" or "Don't Allow Apps" when re-enabling Focus mode. This will hide all apps from view except for stock Apple apps and kid-friendly apps like Disney+.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhey guys today we're taking a look at how to hide apps directly on the home screen of your iphone this seems to be a very popular question so i wanted to share with you guys about four or five methods on how to hide apps directly on the home screen of your iphone not using any type of modification just built-in software features directly on your device now as always if you would like to stay up to date with the latest ios news and apple software updates of course don't forget to subscribe and make sure to turn on those notifications so that you don't miss another episode now as you see here this iphone has about three pages of applications right here i'm gonna show you two initial easy ways on how to quickly hide apps directly on the home screen and then i'm gonna show you two additional methods that temporarily hide the abs so let's just get right into the video now the first thing we want to do to hide apps initially from the home screen as you can see i have three apps pages here you want to tap and hold on the home screen here and then it will go into edit mode just like so you want to tap in through these dots here and most people know about this one but if you're a beginner what you have to do is untick the pages that you don't want visible and this will only show the pages that you have ticked so there we go we now have only one page on the home screen now we only have this one visible and all those other apps are hitting from the initial view obviously because you can still find them directly within the app library but if you want to initially just hide them from the home screen that is the easiest and quickest method to do so now let's go back here and show you another method using a particular focus mode that you can create so let's go into settings here and let's go into the focus section now here you can create a focus on your device by the way this works in ios 15 so any ios 15 device go ahead and select an emoji or whatever character you want and we're going to type here hide and then we're just going to do app and then we're going to click return and then click done okay so there we go now it's going to ask you which contacts you're going to allow to receive notifications from when you have this focus mode enabled so make sure you add everyone that you want to receive notifications from when you have this mode enabled so i'm just going to select those two suggestions there then you're going to do the same thing for application i'm just going to do this calendar app just for the purpose of the video just make sure you select any app you would like to see notifications from when you have this mode enabled just click allow and then just simply click done and you're all set and ready to go now what we have to do is select which apps will be visible to the eye right to the home screen when this mode is enabled so go to home screen here and then go to enable the hide badges so you don't have notification badges on the apps and then go to custom pages now here you're going to select the page that you want visible when you enable this mode so we have three pages i'm going to make one visible that's all and then click done here and then when i go into the home screen as you can see i have three pages if i go into control center here and go into focus modes and enable the hide apps focus mode now it only shows me one page again this is a quick method to enable this feature here directly from the home screen but you can still find the apps within the app library now i'm going to show you two additional methods which require you to actually hide the apps themselves however there is a bit of a catch let me show you that here in just a second what you want to do is you want to head on into screen time settings here and you want to go into content restrictions right here you want to enable this particular option and once you enter the contact restriction passcode which i can't remember here we go you want to go ahead and click on allow apps so right here we have about 10 to 15 apps that you can hide from the initial view on the home screen and this will actually hide the apps from the app library in any search on your iphone as well so the camera can be completely hidden from the view as you can see right there the camera hides completely from the view you also have your face time your emails you can also hide directly from the view they just disappear and you can't really search for them anywhere within the os so there won't be visible anywhere else so it's going to re-enable those so you have all these options here that you can choose from to hide these apps however if you have a third-party applications like social media apps any other app that you would like to hire permanently how do you do that well there's actually a method to do that as well now this one as i mentioned is a bit more complicated because when you do this your apps will rearrange again so your if you have all your apps and folders and things like that they'll be all over the place once you disable this feature so just keep that in mind so for example i have youtube here let's go ahead and do youtube and we're going to go ahead and place youtube right here inside of twitter just for the purpose of the video and we're going to go into the settings apps here and we're going to go into content restrictions and then we're going to go ahead and enter the passcode and once we're in we want to go ahead and we want to go into apps now what you want to choose here is an age limit and now youtube and twitter do have an age limit so if i select age 9 i believe youtube and twitter will be hidden from the home screen of iphone completely yes look they're completely gone you can't find them anywhere if you go back however and you allow all applications youtube and twitter will be back but you can see right there they're outside of the folder so just keep in mind that if you have a bunch of apps in folders when you re-enable these apps they'll be outside of the folders so you'll have to do that process all over again but you can hide apps based on age so if i type in the number four here it hides a ton of my apps here so you can see right there from the view and if i go into no apps or don't allow apps every app gets hidden from the view except the stock apple apps and apps that are for kids like you know you take the disney plus stuff here and things like that so when i re-enable it go back to all apps boom all my apps come back into the home screen and these won't be searchable through the os so if you have an age restriction this is the best method in my opinion to hide the applications from the view from the os and so that no one can actually view these apps and that about brings it into this video honestly this are four methods two simple methods and two more complicated methods but i think all these will apply to someone at some point let me know if you know any of these or if you know some of yourself you can contact me on twitter let me know about it thank you for watching this quick episode guys and i'll see you guys on the next one peacehey guys today we're taking a look at how to hide apps directly on the home screen of your iphone this seems to be a very popular question so i wanted to share with you guys about four or five methods on how to hide apps directly on the home screen of your iphone not using any type of modification just built-in software features directly on your device now as always if you would like to stay up to date with the latest ios news and apple software updates of course don't forget to subscribe and make sure to turn on those notifications so that you don't miss another episode now as you see here this iphone has about three pages of applications right here i'm gonna show you two initial easy ways on how to quickly hide apps directly on the home screen and then i'm gonna show you two additional methods that temporarily hide the abs so let's just get right into the video now the first thing we want to do to hide apps initially from the home screen as you can see i have three apps pages here you want to tap and hold on the home screen here and then it will go into edit mode just like so you want to tap in through these dots here and most people know about this one but if you're a beginner what you have to do is untick the pages that you don't want visible and this will only show the pages that you have ticked so there we go we now have only one page on the home screen now we only have this one visible and all those other apps are hitting from the initial view obviously because you can still find them directly within the app library but if you want to initially just hide them from the home screen that is the easiest and quickest method to do so now let's go back here and show you another method using a particular focus mode that you can create so let's go into settings here and let's go into the focus section now here you can create a focus on your device by the way this works in ios 15 so any ios 15 device go ahead and select an emoji or whatever character you want and we're going to type here hide and then we're just going to do app and then we're going to click return and then click done okay so there we go now it's going to ask you which contacts you're going to allow to receive notifications from when you have this focus mode enabled so make sure you add everyone that you want to receive notifications from when you have this mode enabled so i'm just going to select those two suggestions there then you're going to do the same thing for application i'm just going to do this calendar app just for the purpose of the video just make sure you select any app you would like to see notifications from when you have this mode enabled just click allow and then just simply click done and you're all set and ready to go now what we have to do is select which apps will be visible to the eye right to the home screen when this mode is enabled so go to home screen here and then go to enable the hide badges so you don't have notification badges on the apps and then go to custom pages now here you're going to select the page that you want visible when you enable this mode so we have three pages i'm going to make one visible that's all and then click done here and then when i go into the home screen as you can see i have three pages if i go into control center here and go into focus modes and enable the hide apps focus mode now it only shows me one page again this is a quick method to enable this feature here directly from the home screen but you can still find the apps within the app library now i'm going to show you two additional methods which require you to actually hide the apps themselves however there is a bit of a catch let me show you that here in just a second what you want to do is you want to head on into screen time settings here and you want to go into content restrictions right here you want to enable this particular option and once you enter the contact restriction passcode which i can't remember here we go you want to go ahead and click on allow apps so right here we have about 10 to 15 apps that you can hide from the initial view on the home screen and this will actually hide the apps from the app library in any search on your iphone as well so the camera can be completely hidden from the view as you can see right there the camera hides completely from the view you also have your face time your emails you can also hide directly from the view they just disappear and you can't really search for them anywhere within the os so there won't be visible anywhere else so it's going to re-enable those so you have all these options here that you can choose from to hide these apps however if you have a third-party applications like social media apps any other app that you would like to hire permanently how do you do that well there's actually a method to do that as well now this one as i mentioned is a bit more complicated because when you do this your apps will rearrange again so your if you have all your apps and folders and things like that they'll be all over the place once you disable this feature so just keep that in mind so for example i have youtube here let's go ahead and do youtube and we're going to go ahead and place youtube right here inside of twitter just for the purpose of the video and we're going to go into the settings apps here and we're going to go into content restrictions and then we're going to go ahead and enter the passcode and once we're in we want to go ahead and we want to go into apps now what you want to choose here is an age limit and now youtube and twitter do have an age limit so if i select age 9 i believe youtube and twitter will be hidden from the home screen of iphone completely yes look they're completely gone you can't find them anywhere if you go back however and you allow all applications youtube and twitter will be back but you can see right there they're outside of the folder so just keep in mind that if you have a bunch of apps in folders when you re-enable these apps they'll be outside of the folders so you'll have to do that process all over again but you can hide apps based on age so if i type in the number four here it hides a ton of my apps here so you can see right there from the view and if i go into no apps or don't allow apps every app gets hidden from the view except the stock apple apps and apps that are for kids like you know you take the disney plus stuff here and things like that so when i re-enable it go back to all apps boom all my apps come back into the home screen and these won't be searchable through the os so if you have an age restriction this is the best method in my opinion to hide the applications from the view from the os and so that no one can actually view these apps and that about brings it into this video honestly this are four methods two simple methods and two more complicated methods but i think all these will apply to someone at some point let me know if you know any of these or if you know some of yourself you can contact me on twitter let me know about it thank you for watching this quick episode guys and i'll see you guys on the next one peace\n"