The iPhone home screen is more customizable than ever before. Adding and resizing widgets or changing how app icons look is easy, and you can go even further with custom widgets and icons with ...

If you're a developer or beta tester with the iOS 26 beta on your device, you will also see an option for Clear in the home ...

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.

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.