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iOS 14 allows for custom icons, quick guide now available to create your own interfaces

With the advent of iOS 14, you can now change your app icons with whatever images you’d like from your camera roll.

This, in turn, inspired Twitter user Thomas Reisenegger to recreate his iPhone app icons in MS Paint.

Reisenegger has also gone one step further, and created a quick guide to allow you to do this on your own with whatever images you see fit.

To get started, courtesy of this Nerds Chalk guide, download and open the Shortcuts app. You’ll want to add a new shortcut so tap the ‘+’ and hit ‘add action’.

The action you’ll need to search for is ‘open app’ because essentially, you’re creating a shortcut with a customisable icon. Then choose the app you’re wanting it to link to.

Once this is sorted, you can edit the name and the icon to whatever you’d like them to be, and you’re done.

Check out the links below and if you get a chance to play with this, please let us know about your experience in the comments.

Via @Olima, Gizmodo Australia, and the Nerds Chalk Guide