iOS 26 lets you match app icons to your iPhone color — here's how to enable it

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iOS 26 adds a new Home Screen customization option that automatically tints app icons to match your iPhone's color or the color of your case. Instead of manually choosing a tint color for icons, iOS can now detect your device color and apply matching tint automatically.

This feature creates a cohesive aesthetic across hardware and software. If you have a blue iPhone, app icons can tint blue to match. Swap to a different colored case, and the icons can match that instead. Here's how to set it up.

How to match app icons to your iPhone

Long-press on a blank area of your Home Screen until the apps start jiggling and tap the "Edit" button that appears in the top-left corner of the screen.

Select "Customize" from the menu that appears. Then tap "Tinted" to access tinting options. Look at the bottom of the screen, just above where it says "Light," "Dark," and "Auto." You'll see small icon buttons. If you have a MagSafe case you'll see four icons, everyone else will have three.

The left button matches app icons to your iPhone's body color. Tap it, and icons immediately tint to match your device. The button just to the right of it matches icons to your iPhone's case color instead. Tap that to have icons match your MagSafe case.

How case color matching works

Case color matching works with Apple's official MagSafe cases. The iPhone detects the case color through the MagSafe connection and applies the corresponding tint to app icons. If you use a non-MagSafe case or one that doesn't share color data, the case matching option won't function properly.

When case matching works, it updates dynamically when you swap cases. Put on a green case and icons tint green. Switch to a pink case later and icons automatically change to pink. This makes it easy to coordinate your Home Screen with different case colors without manually adjusting tint settings each time.

If you frequently change cases, this feature keeps your Home Screen aesthetic consistent with whatever case you're currently using.

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Kaycee is Tom's Guide's How-To Editor, known for tutorials that get straight to what works. She writes across phones, homes, TVs and everything in between — because life doesn't stick to categories and neither should good advice. She's spent years in content creation doing one thing really well: making complicated things click. Kaycee is also an award-winning poet and co-editor at Fox and Star Books.

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