Is there any way to have my iPhone leave a blank space on a home screen? I leave a blank spot at the end of some of my home screens, but then when I buy new apps, those apps are slotted into the blank spots, instead of added to the end of the list, where I want them. And moving them, even in iTunes, gets tedious.
This all-black icon can hold a place on your home screen.
Our own Roberto Baldwin discovered a pretty slick workaround for that problem--you can find it right here on MacLife.com by surfing to tinyurl.com/iphonespacer. Basically, you’ll create an all-black “spacer” icon on the home screen by navigating to a page with a lot of black in it (blackle.com is a perfect one to use), zooming in until all you can see is black, and then pressing the plus sign. In the pop-up menu, select Add to Home Screen, and then in the resulting screen, replace the site’s name with a single period. Click Add, and a black icon will be added to your Home Screen, with a pretty easily ignored period as its name. The spacer icons do have a little iPhone sheen on them, so they’re not totally invisible. But they do their job of taking up space at the ends (or in the middles) of your home screens, just like you wanted.
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July 05, 2010 at 9:39am
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Pierce
July 01, 2010 at 6:06am
If you have a wallpaper it doesnt work the best, and if you accidentally tap it safari opens... I'm a registered developer so what I did is create an app with a 100% transparent icon so it doesnt matter what background and the I coded it so that it closes itself immediately upon launch just in case. I'm going to try and build it to a .ipa file and upload it so that everyone can use it if I can.
khenley
June 30, 2010 at 6:33pm
Some may find it easier to simply use an existing icon alone on the home screen to accomplish this. I use the settings icon for this which kills two birds with one stone for me. Since Apple hasn't seen fit to place the WiFi and bluetooth settings together or in a user friendly switchable icon to alleviate digging into settings to get to them I keep the settings icon on the home screen for easier access.
