Dark forest home screen with two Widgy widgets and no icons
A dark-mode iPhoner with no icons on the home screen at all: two full-width Widgy widgets tracking weather, calendar, and bills on a misty forest wallpaper.
A dark-mode iPhoner home screen with no app icons in sight. Two full-width Widgy widgets stack across the entire screen above the dock, turning the home screen into a single-purpose dashboard of weather, time, calendar, and upcoming bills.
The top Widgy widget organizes four mini-panels: a large clock on the left, a weather card, a day-of-week card, and a bill-reminder slot tracking a Klarna payment. Below it, the second full-width widget carries a month calendar and an agenda list showing upcoming payments. No apps sit between the dock and the widgets.
The dock holds Phone, Messages, WhatsApp, and a social-and-utility folder. The wallpaper carries through to the lock screen: a moody green forest reflected in a still lake, shot in near-dark light with trees disappearing into mist above. Large glass-carved numerals overlay the trees. A commute ETA widget at the bottom left shows the estimated drive time to a saved home address.
Worth copying for iPhoners who want financial reminders and a calendar on the home screen without any icon grid getting in the way.
A traveler iPhoner home screen. The wallpaper is a mosaic of deep navy and indigo tiles shifting across four shades of blue-grey, landing somewhere between a pixel grid and a stone mosaic depending on how far back you hold the phone.
Four medium widgets fill the top two-thirds of the home screen in a 2x2 grid. Two Clock widgets sit at the top: one for local time, the other locked to Sydney, which puts the same face in two different time zones. Below them, Weather and a Calendar month-view take the remaining two slots. A single row of apps separates the widget block from an empty stretch of wallpaper before the dock.
Reminders, ChatGPT, Safari, and FaceTime make up that row. Just stock icons throughout. The dock holds Phone, Messages, what looks like Camera, and WhatsApp, four apps that cover the obvious communication bases across platforms. The whole setup runs in fours, top to bottom.
Worth copying for iPhoners who track two time zones daily and want the clocks on the home screen without building out a full widget stack.
A dual-timezone home screen and a mosaic wallpaper
A traveler iPhoner setup built on dual Clock widgets for two time zones, a deep navy mosaic lock screen, and ChatGPT in the main row.
A retro iPhoner setup that goes all the way back. The lock screen wallpaper is a close-up macro of rain on glass, hundreds of grey droplets on a silver surface. On the home screen, every icon is rendered in the old skeuomorphic style: textured, dimensional, shaded like something you could actually touch.
Four pages of icons cover the whole range of the iOS 6 era: a wooden iBooks-style bookshelf, a retro television icon, the old Compass with its parchment-style surround, the original Instagram camera, and the old Maps icon with its road-map styling. The old Weather, Notes, Siri, and Music icons appear exactly as they shipped more than a decade ago. A rain-on-glass wallpaper carries across every page and the lock screen, making the visual continuity between screens unusually consistent.
Page three is the highlight: an iPod classic widget fills the top half of the screen, complete with a scroll wheel and album art from a currently playing track. A Flappy Bird icon sits two rows below it. Further pages bring a currency widget tracking USD, EUR, GBP, and BTC, a skeuomorphic clock and calendar widget, and a green battery readout styled like an old status bar. Modern apps including Duolingo, Discord, Reddit, and Spotify sit alongside the vintage icons without much friction.
Worth copying for iPhoners who miss the era when every icon looked like a real thing, not a flat colored square.
iOS 6 revival home screen with an iPod widget
A retro iPhoner setup that brings back iOS 6 skeuomorphic icons across four pages, with an old-school rain lock screen and an iPod classic widget.
A minimal iPhoner home screen built around a stormy lighthouse photograph. The wallpaper is a moody teal-grey scene: a tall lighthouse at the edge of rocky surf, lit from within against a foggy overcast sky.
Eight black square icons run in a left-column grid, each with a minimal white line icon inside: Phone, a weather app, Photos, DuckDuckGo, Reddit, WhatsApp, Messages, and a grid-view app. The right side of the home screen is left open, giving the lighthouse room to stand in the frame. The single dock app is a list icon centered at the bottom.
A date and weather widget anchors the top left, rendered in plain white text directly on the wallpaper with no background card. That left column continues straight down with the icons below it. The lock screen uses the same lighthouse image with a glass weather widget at the bottom left, showing the current conditions and a two-day forecast. A sunset-time complication sits in the row above that.
Worth copying for iPhoners who want a dramatic landscape photograph to carry the visual weight while the icons stay out of the way.
A stormy lighthouse wallpaper and a minimal black icon set
A minimal iPhoner with eight black line-icon apps, a stormy lighthouse wallpaper on both screens, and a detailed weather widget on the lock screen.
