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Seems that I’m in a spacer / blank icon mood lately, but they really help if you’d like to cluster your apps and therefore ‘unclutter’ your working space. (I just wrote an article on how to add a spacer for iPhones here.)

Here are the few steps it takes to achieve this:

1) Go to Applications -> Utilities -> Terminal

2) Type or copy/paste the following:

defaults write com.apple.dock persistent-apps -array-add ‘{tile-data={}; tile-type=”spacer-tile”;}’

3) Press enter and type or copy/paste this:

killall Dock

4) Once you pressed enter, you will realize that you have just created a spacer.

5) Repeat as you wish (restarting the dock in-between isn’t necessary) and exit the session by typing:

exit

6) Now the Terminal can be closed. The icon(s) can be treated like normal ones (moving and deleting).

Enjoy your new found tidiness.

Having almost 4GB and endless pages of apps on my iPhone, I started to wonder if it’s possible to add an icon as a spacer to increase the clarity. There are many ways if you have a jailbroken phone, but I also found a way to do so on a ‘normal’ one.

Just follow these steps:

1) Visit http://blank.appleiphone.fr/ with your iPhone

2) Add to  Home Screen

3) Instead of typing something which would appear as name, click Cancel

4) Add to Home Screen – again

5) Now the Add button appears without typing a name

6) Move your new spacer (blank icon) to the place you’d like it to be and voilà, there it is.

Thanks for the hint Ananas!