Freebies: 15 Free iPhone Icon Sets

free-iphone-icon-sets As many of you know the iPhone is a powerful device that combines incredible sleek design with advanced graphic user interface technology. Millions of users rely on the iPhone daily to aid them in smoothing out the rough edges of life, but why not apply creativity to technology with a collection of attractive icons?

All of these icons have been designed according to the style used in the original iPhone icons, which turns them into really eye-catching designs

Here are 15 absolutely free iPhone icon sets for the personalization of your iPhone courtesy of MakeUseOf!

Enjoy!

Comic iPhone Icons

comic iphone icons

Social Bookmark Icons

social bookmark icons

SummerBoard

summerboard

Hand Draw iPhone Icons

hand draw iphone icons

Aquaticus Socia

aquaticus socia

Some beautiful iPhone icons

beautiful iphone icons

ultra colors

ultra colors

IPhoneStyle Dock

iphonestyle dock

Radiance

radiance icon set

Aluminium and White

aluminium and white iphoe icon set

Chalkwork

chalkwork

Web 2 Icons

web 2.0 iphone icon set

Sleek Icons

Toolbar Icons

Spiffy Icon Pack

spiffy iphone icon set

Installing Your iPhone Icons

First off, you have to start off with the basics. iPhone icons arrive in two sizes, one of which you see most; the home screen icons are generally 59×59 pixels, whereas some icons can also be seen in 29×29 for list size; an example of the list sized icons can be seen within the iPhone’s settings area.

Now, how do you replace the icons on your iPhone? The icons for each application on the home screen can be found in the bundles, which you can easily find on your iPhone’s /Applications folder. For example, for changing the Weather app icon, you have to place your new icon (that should be named as icon.png) in /Applications/Weather.app/. You will have to overwrite the existing icon.png file with the new one.

And there you have it! That’s how you can install an icon on your iPhone.

Customizing your iPhone can be a fun way to put technology to an inspiring use. Let your iPhone reflect whatever you’d like it to and which icon set did you like the best? Feel free to leave us a comment below to share your valuable thoughts. If you know about some other cool free iPhone icon sets please share them as well.

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Joel Reyes

From a very young age I've been interested and captivated by technology! Before entering college I began self teaching, exploring, and exploiting new found information on all sorts of technology venues. In addition to my "addiction" to the tech world I also began to gain a large interest in writing. It quickly became one of my strongest subjects where I continued to advance in. As time progressed I started thinking about a future in writing, but what better to write about if not on the subjects I love so much having to do with technology! Thus, several years later I continue writing helpful articles, tutorials, and reviews on computer software, design, development, and programing content.

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  • krisu April 22, 2009

    Many of these icons doesn’t maded for iPhone…

    • mallchin April 23, 2009

      FAIL!

      • krisu April 28, 2009

        …Yeah, right. You don’t have look these icons in ther sites, right?

        Spiffy Icon Pack, Sleek Icons, Web 2 Icons, IPhoneStyle Dock, Aquaticus Socia is not maded for iPhone, these are maded for Windows, Mac (for docks and into desktop) and for websites as webicons.

        So you fail.

  • Andy Lau TC April 22, 2009

    i wonder to get a new iphone, sounds nice n great! but i’m using the LG KC910 Renoir now…anyway, it’s nice n cool for iphone user!

  • Jonas brotha April 22, 2009

    still don’t understand how to get them ON to your iPhone.

    • Neal April 23, 2009

      Do what the article says on your computer, then sync

  • Danh ba web 2.0 April 22, 2009

    Great icons for Iphone. Thanks a lot !

  • kentfutura April 23, 2009

    how nice it is…wonder if all can work.thanks

  • I am a US Blogger April 23, 2009

    waooo! loved them all!

  • MIKE April 24, 2009

    So you can’t update/change the default apps (calendar, calc, etc.)? They aren’t in that folder with everything else..

    • Joel Reyes April 24, 2009

      Possibly not. Keep searching through a few folders to see if you can find them :)

      Thank you all for your posts!

  • jeffcard April 24, 2009

    Awesome, that’s pretty cool, I loved them. I also found some free iPhone themes, share it here.

  • Alex White June 7, 2009

    Good set!!!

    Who wants another nice set of high quality icons, please welcome!)))
    Here is one nice set of FREE LED Icons:

    h t t p ://led24.de/iconset/
    It`ll be good if you put it to your collection!
    And for all: enjoy it! I`ll be glad!
    Best wishes!

    P.S. It`ll be great if you save my link to LED Icons ;)

  • Leon Dudovich June 12, 2009

    Awesome!

  • iphone app reviews October 7, 2009

    Very nice set of alternative icons. I personally am fine with the standard look but if I had to choose one, I would say that Sleek Icon set looks great.