• Tutorial to customize iPhone and iPod Touch home screen without jailbreak

    This page explains how to customize your iPhone or iPod Touch home screen, by inserting transparent icons between your application icons, without jailbreaking your Apple mobile.

iphoneiphone
  • How does it works ?
  • How to move the empty space ?
  • How to do this again ?
  • How to update existing empty spaces after home screen update ?
  • Troubleshooting
  • Known limitations
  • Why keep the obsolete "TRANSPARENT mode" ?
  • Questions ? Problems ?



  • How does it works ?

    iEmpty allows you to add "empty spaces" to your iPhone or iPod Touch home screen ("springboard"), by adding on it special Safari bookmarks (with an icon reproducing your home screen background, and without any text).

    ...So you can put your app icons where you want on your home screen, leaving "blank spaces" between them... wihtout the need to jailbreak your iPhone ! (for jailbroken devices, you can use "iBlank" or "GridLock" apps). Indeed, Apple doesn't allows this natively on iOS...

    You just have to go to this page (from an iDevice) and choose the icon type that best fit your needs. Then follow the instructions given on each page.
    You will finish to be on a "Add Icon" page showing the icon you are about to add. This is the page you have to bookmark on your home screen to add an empty space on it !

    For further details and help about the steps to perform, please read the contextual help sections integrated at the bottom of each page.

  • How to move the empty space ?

    Long tap on an icon on your springboard, like you usually do to move the applications.

    You will see app icons "shaking" with a little cross on the top left corner. You will also see only the cross with an icon reproducing your background : this is your empty space !

    You can move it or delete it like any other app icon !

  • How to do this again ?

    Each empty space added is in fact a link to the page allowing you to add this empty space !

    So you just need to tap on an existing empty space on your home screen to easily add a new empty space of the same type !

  • How to update existing empty spaces after home screen update ?

    If you already added empty spaces using the "CUSTOM mode" and a custom home screen image, perhaps you would like to change your home screen background...
    In this case your icons already added will not match your new home screen anymore !

    Don't panick !
    Once you've upload your new home screen to iEmpty (in order to generate your new 'invisible' custom icons), just tap on each 'old' icon already added : you will display the "Add Icon" page displaying the new icon generated for your new home screen background.
    Wait the complete page loading and quit Safari : your icon should have been updated on your home screen !

  • Troubleshooting

    1. When trying to bookmark the page, the 'Add' button is disabled.

    » Cancel the operation and try again.

    2. When trying to bookmark the page, the icon to add is not the expected one (thumbnail of the page instead of your custom icon)

    » Cancel the operation and try again. And wait that the "Add Icon" page is completely loaded before trying to add the bookmark.

  • Known limitations

    In "TRANSPARENT mode", iEmpty adds a transparent icon on your home screen.

    However, Safari modifies the icon transparency into black...
    Consequently this mode will be usefull only if you have a black screen background.

    If you have a device with at least iOS4 and a background image as a wallpaper on your home screen, please use the "CUSTOM mode" instead !

  • Why keep the obsolete "TRANSPARENT mode" ?

    As you just see, the "TRANSPARENT mode" seems "useless" if you have a device with iOS4 or greater and a custom home screen... So why keeping it ?!?

    1. Because this was the original mode of iEmpty. This is the reason why I made this website... So it is sentimental !! ;-)

    2. Because this mode always work for old devices with iOS3... OK, they are few, so that's not a very good reason to keep it !

    3. Because perhaps one day (we could dream...), Apple will allow transparency on Safari bookmarks icons added to the home screen. This day, the "TRANSPARENT mode" will be the only one to keep !

  • Questions ? Problems ?

    If you read this help section and each help section integrated on the pages, and still have a question, then you can send me a message to ask me this question !

    » Go to the "Contact" page to send me a message.

    Even if I'm often busy, I'll try to answer you as soon as possible... so please be patient ! ;-p

  • Share iEmpty !


iphone

Go to springboard

iphone
Apple & iPhone News

  • Apple?s App Store Marks Historic 50 Billionth Download

    Apple has announced that customers have now downloaded over 50 billion apps from the App Store. The 50 billionth app ? Say the Same Thing by Space Inc(...)


  • Ailing UK School Makes Dramatic Turnaround

    A new video profiles Essa Academy, a once struggling school in one of the most disadvantaged areas of England. New principal Showkat Badat has reinven(...)


  • Apple Is Tops When It Comes to Computer Tech Support

    According to the latest Consumer Reports reader survey, Apple tops the list of brand-name computer manufacturers for the quality of its tech support, (...)


  • Apple Worldwide Developers Conference to Kick Off June 10 in San Francisco

    Apple announced that it will hold its annual Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) June 10 through June 14 at San Francisco?s Moscone West. At the f(...)


  • Apple Reports Second Quarter Results

    Apple announced financial results for its fiscal 2013 second quarter ended March 30, 2013, posting revenue of $43.6 billion and quarterly net profit o(...)


  • Unlocking the Power of iPad for the Blind

    Bloomberg West profiles Ed Summers, who, as head of accessibility at international software company SAS, ?has made it his mission to help other visual(...)


  • Apple Takes Laptop Magazine?s Top Rating

    Laptop Magazine has awarded Apple the top prize in its Best Brands feature for the fourth year in a row, placing first in five of the eight categorie(...)


  • Can the iPad Rescue a Struggling American Education System?

    Across the United States, teachers are using iPad and other tablets to reinvent the presentation and management of educational material. According to (...)


  • Apple Launches iBookstore in Japan

    Apple has announced the launch of the iBookstore in Japan. The iBookstore has a wide selection of emerging and established authors, including Shyotaro(...)


  • Creating New Possibilities in the Classroom with iPad

    With an eye toward helping students navigate the digital world, Burlington High School outside Boston adopted the iPad one-to-one program, which provi(...)



  • Remains of the Day: Death and taxes

    Apple?s executives speak before congress, Ireland doesn?t think it has a taxation problem, and iOS 7 looks to share and share alike. The remainde(...)


  • Apple defends offshore decisions that result in low taxes

    Apple pays a fair share of the taxes it owes the U.S. and other nations, its CEO said Tuesday, despite criticism from U.S. senators that the comp(...)


  • Advice from an Apple Tech: When your Mac takes a fall

    If you?ve never heard that noise before, you?re bound to hear it someday: that amazing, dull crunch as your Mac slips out of your hands or off a (...)


  • The Macalope: Loose talk

    If you were wondering if ReadWrite had cleaned up its act since Dan Lyons left, fret not: Its Apple coverage is still as vapidly negative as it?s(...)


  • Remains of the Day: Face the music

    Sony and Apple are at loggerheads over streaming music, AT&T gets ready to open the floodgates on video chat over its network, and the head o(...)


  • Senate report: Apple claims subsidiaries with no taxing jurisdiction

    Apple has set up three foreign subsidiaries that the company claims are not resident in any nation for taxing purposes, in an effort to avoid pay(...)





© 2010 iEmpty / TooLiPHoNe.NeT  -  Hosted by OVH
Message
  • Support the site !

    This site is FREE ! Help it to exist by supporting it :
    o Talk about it to your friends, on Facebook, Twitter, ...
    o Comment and rate the Youtube video
    o Write an article on your blog
    o Talk about it on forums
    o Make a link on it from your site

    THANK YOU ! ;-)

Ads
Screenshots
iEmpty - How to customize your iphone home screen no jailbreak needed (Image number 15) iEmpty - Ipod touch springboard customization with transparent icons (Image number 12) iEmpty - How to customize your ipod touch home screen with blank icons (Image number 8)
Help
  • How does it works ?

    iEmpty allows you to add "empty spaces" to your iPhone or iPod Touch home screen ("springboard"), by adding on it special Safari bookmarks (with an icon reproducing your home screen background, and without any text).

    ...So you can put your app icons where you want on your home screen, leaving "blank spaces" between them... wihtout the need to jailbreak your iPhone ! (for jailbroken devices, you can use "iBlank" or "GridLock" apps). Indeed, Apple doesn't allows this natively on iOS...

    You just have to go to this page (from an iDevice) and choose the icon type that best fit your needs. Then follow the instructions given on each page.
    You will finish to be on a "Add Icon" page showing the icon you are about to add. This is the page you have to bookmark on your home screen to add an empty space on it !

    For further details and help about the steps to perform, please read the contextual help sections integrated at the bottom of each page.

They talk about it...
  • From xsellize.com (EN)

    For NOT jailbreak (...) Make icons blank as iBlank on springboard ! (...)

Message
  • Warning !

    This site is optimized for iPhone and iPod Touch.
    This non mobile site simulates the mobile version of the site.

    Some functionnalities will be unavailables and some elements will be differently displayed.

Partenaires