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

0.47 - Sept. 25, 2022, 12:38 a.m.

Fixed bottom two icon generation for iPhone 14 Pro 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 · 1 year, 10 months ago

@robric18 Author

I will be adding updater support on the next update.
Reply · 1 year, 10 months 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 · 1 year, 10 months ago

@Nobody5050

robric has his own updater
Reply · 1 year, 5 months ago

@sethusenthil

This is amazing, it would be awesome if you can launch a shortcut or url when tapping on it!
Reply · 1 year, 10 months 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 · 1 year, 10 months ago

@sethusenthil

Can't wait!
Reply · 1 year, 10 months 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 · 1 year, 9 months ago

@robric18 Author

Great idea. I have just released a new version which supports iPads in that view.
Reply · 1 year, 9 months ago

@dixipix

Perfect! A great shortcut became even greater! Thank you!
Reply · 1 year, 9 months 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 · 1 year, 9 months 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 · 1 year, 9 months 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 · 1 year, 9 months 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 · 1 year, 9 months 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 · 1 year, 9 months ago

@robric18 Author

@zachary7829

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 · 1 year, 8 months ago

@robric18 Author

Does the overlay option not do what you want? Actual transparency is not possible with current shortcut restrictions.
Reply · 1 year, 7 months 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 · 1 year, 7 months ago

@KingruiXXSABG56

Great!
Reply · 1 year, 5 months ago

@erstwhiletexan

I absolutely love this shortcut and use it regularly on my iPhone 12 mini. However, it doesn’t seem to work on my iPad mini (the only options I get are for iPad Pro). I’m upgrading to an iPad mini 6, will the shortcut work on those?
Reply · 1 year ago

@robric18 Author

Have you tried using the iPad Pro options and seeing if they work? I’m not sure, but that might work. In order for the shortcut to work with the new devices, they will have to either have the same screen dimensions as an existing device or I will need to add options. I’m not sure what the story is dimension wise. If they haven’t changed, it should work. If not, let me know and I will update it.
Reply · 1 year ago

@kekkles

Hey there! I can't get this to place properly on an iPad Air 5, any updates or recommendations?
Reply · 2 months, 3 weeks ago

@kekkles

Hey there! I can't get this to place properly on an iPad Air 5, any updates or recommendations?
Reply · 2 months, 3 weeks ago

@wsbarker

Hi @robric18 I love your shortcut! I've been a user for a long time. I just upgraded to an iPhone 14 pro and was delighted to see that you updated the shortcut. I do think there is a bug for this screen size, though. In the icon selector I can see that the aspect ratio is incorrect and blank icons are not created properly for the bottom row. Lmk if screen captures would be helpful. Thanks again for this amazing shortcut!
Reply · 4 days, 14 hours ago

@robric18 Author

Hi there. Thanks for the nice comments. I just uploaded an update which should hopefully address these issues. Please update and let me know if it works.
Reply · 4 days, 11 hours ago

@wsbarker

Thanks for the quick turn! The issue is still present but I think I found it. Entry 2556 (iphone 14 pro) in the dictionary has 'Rows' defined to value 6. Should be 7. The icon selection UI looks a little wonky at the bottom - I assume there are some resulting code changes you'll need to make in addition to change this value BUT, after change 6 to 7, the icons are created correctly for the iphone 14 pro. Thanks again for this great product!
Reply · 2 days, 23 hours ago

@robric18 Author

Hey there, I believe I have fixed it so that everything works right including dock icons. Check the update now.
Reply · 1 day, 17 hours ago

@wsbarker

Boom. Works just right! Thanks!
Reply · 1 day, 17 hours ago