Tap Clear and all the app icons on your home screen will turn semi-translucent. This will also affect icons across your device, like in Settings and other menus.

In iOS 18, you can tint your app icons, change their size, arrange them in new layouts, and more. Here’s how to customize your iPhone’s Home Screen.

How to Make the Icons Bigger Long-press on the home screen until the app icons start to wiggle. Tap Edit in the upper right-hand corner of the screen, and then tap Customize.

The only way I can see it working is if invoking the icon-move mode shrinks the active screen and creates a margin around it that you can put icons into temporarily.

How to Get Clear App Icons in iOS 26 On your iPhone's Home Screen, long press an empty space until it enters jiggle mode. Tap Edit in the top-left corner, then tap Customize in the pop-up menu.