RoutineHub • Blank Icon Maker

Blank Icon Maker

Create Blank Icons for your home screen

Description

Blank Icon Maker is the easiest way to make "blank icons" for your iOS homescreen.

In jiggly mode, scroll to a blank page and take a screen shot. Then run Blank Icon Maker from the share sheet. In a few moments, you will be shown a screen where you will be able to choose the icons you want to display in their context on the homescreen so it will be easy to choose which icons you want to add.

New Features:

Blank Dock Icons

Overlay images over blank icons for use as Home Screen icons

Works with iPad in normal or widget today view

Latest Release Notes

0.43 - Dec. 29, 2020, 5:40 p.m.

Now you can make blank icons for iPhone Docks (compatible with all current iPhone models and many older models)

Version history

Feedback

@amphibutter

Will you be adding updater support? I had to check through the recently updated section to find out there was one available. I’d love for mine to be in the running! https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/44b30fe1cc014f9d847a90eb867cdefc “Simple Updater”
Reply · 8 months ago

@robric18 Author

I will be adding updater support on the next update.
Reply · 7 months, 4 weeks ago

@amphibutter

Cool! Is there any way I can assist you there? This is a really awesome shortcut and I want to make sure it stays alive.
Reply · 7 months, 4 weeks ago

@Nobody5050

robric has his own updater
Reply · 3 months, 1 week ago

@sethusenthil

This is amazing, it would be awesome if you can launch a shortcut or url when tapping on it!
Reply · 7 months, 4 weeks ago

@robric18 Author

The next update will add support for saving blank icons to your photos or files. Those will be able to be used with shortcuts like Fancy Icon Maker (https://routinehub.co/shortcut/6759/) to launch shortcuts or apps.
Reply · 7 months, 4 weeks ago

@sethusenthil

Can't wait!
Reply · 7 months, 4 weeks ago

@dixipix

Great shortcut! Im requesting the ability to make blank icons for the first page on ipad pro when you have the persistent widget area. When you have that the spaces between the icons are narrower. Thanks in advance!
Reply · 7 months, 2 weeks ago

@robric18 Author

Great idea. I have just released a new version which supports iPads in that view.
Reply · 7 months, 2 weeks ago

@dixipix

Perfect! A great shortcut became even greater! Thank you!
Reply · 7 months, 2 weeks ago

@tbb

Hey robirc18! I have got a cool idea for you! Combining Blank Icon Maker and Fancy Icon Maker together! (Maybe call the shortcut robric18’s Icon Maker) This is what it will look like: Start: Welcome to robirc18’s Icon Maker! Do you want to make invisible icons (with or without a image on top) or do you want to make custom icons? Middle: Run blank/fancy icon maker End: Where should the icon lead you to? (An app or website)
Reply · 7 months, 2 weeks ago

@dastefster

Not sure if I'm doing something wrong, but sometimes when selecting "a few" slots the blank icons generated aren't for the correct positions and/or the total number is less than the amount I chose. Any thoughts? (oh & I have an iPhone 12 Pro)
Reply · 7 months, 2 weeks ago

@robric18 Author

I’ve never run into this issue before. Are you using the most recent version of the shortcut? Can you find a trend for which locations it happens with? Are you installing the configuration profile or saving the icons individually? Are you overlaying other items?
Reply · 7 months, 2 weeks ago

@dastefster

Yes, I have v0.42. not sure why, but the blank icons generated in the selection screen also include 6 additional black ones, for a total of 30, instead of 24 like in the 1st screenshot above. As far as I can tell, the issues only occur when the black icons are in the spaces I select. The additional icons mess up the transparent ones' arrangement & if selected, they aren't included in the downloaded profile. Thus far I've always installed the config & haven't tried overlaying yet.
Reply · 7 months, 2 weeks ago

@robric18 Author

It appears you are using a device that we some extra black icons To make up for blank spaces on the image selection screen. If you don’t select those icons the images should appear correctly when added to the homescreen. However, if you have bank spaces on other pages of your phone, the phone may try to fill in those spaces first. The way to fix that is to move the earlier images to the beginning of the page you want your images on. The black images won’t ever populate as icons.
Reply · 7 months, 2 weeks ago

@robric18 Author

@zachary7829 Member

Great shortcut! Can a similar method be used to get transparency in icons without doing something like having a fully black wallpaper? Or would things like that be considered next to impossible?
Reply · 6 months ago

@robric18 Author

Does the overlay option not do what you want? Actual transparency is not possible with current shortcut restrictions.
Reply · 4 months, 4 weeks ago

@jstew5187

This seems like it’s exactly what I’ve been looking for. However, when I run it and load the image. It gives me a 5x7 grid to choose from. My home screen is 4x7. I have an iPhone XS Max.
Reply · 5 months, 2 weeks ago

@KingruiXXSABG56

Great!
Reply · 3 months, 1 week ago