Gingerbread Candy: install the phone theme

Gingerbread CandySee it on the phone simulator

In your download

Files: Gingerbread-Candy-Phone-Theme-Icons.zip
Gingerbread-Candy-Phone-Theme-Widgets.zip
Gingerbread-Candy-Phone-Theme-Wallpapers.zip
Icons: 120 app icons as PNG files, in the Icons folder. For iPhone and Android.
Wallpapers: 10 designs, for iPhone and Android: Village Lock Screen, Village Home Screen, Baking Lock Screen, Baking Home Screen, Cocoa Lock Screen, Cocoa Home Screen, Branch Lock Screen, Branch Home Screen, Gingerbread House, Gingerbread House Night. iPhone 1179 × 2556 and Android 1440 × 3200.
Quick Install: iPhone profile that adds 9 icons at once: Messages, Photos, Maps, Weather, Music, Mail, Calendar, Notes, Browser.
Install Guide: Gingerbread-Candy-Install-Guide.pdf, to read on your phone.

Messages icon — The 9 icons Quick Install adds on iPhone.

Photos icon — The 9 icons Quick Install adds on iPhone.

Gingerbread Candy Gingerbread House wallpaper — Gingerbread House and Gingerbread House Night for iPhone, two of the 10.

Gingerbread Candy Gingerbread House Night wallpaper — Gingerbread House and Gingerbread House Night for iPhone, two of the 10.

Good to know

The Home Screen wallpaper has a white gingerbread roof at the top. Keep to four rows of icons, or the app names land on it.

Get the files on your phone

On your phone, open your purchase in a web browser (Safari on iPhone, Chrome on Android) and download the ZIP files. Use the browser, not the shop’s app: the app can’t save the file. They go to the Downloads folder.
iPhone: in Files › Downloads, tap each ZIP once. A folder appears.
Android: in Files › Downloads, tap the ZIP. Touch and hold the folder inside, then tap ⋮ › Extract to… › Extract. With Files by Google, tap the ZIP, then Extract.

Downloaded twice? Your phone may add “(1)” to the folder name. Either folder works.

iPhone: Quick Install

What Quick Install is: a small settings profile, signed by Frenetiq Design, that puts 9 theme icons on your Home Screen in one go (Messages, Photos, Maps, Weather, Music, Mail, Calendar, Notes, Safari). It only adds icons: your apps and settings stay as they are. The button that starts it, and its QR code, are on page 2 of Gingerbread-Candy-Install-Guide.pdf in your download. About two minutes.

Step 3: in Settings, tap Profile Downloaded.

Open Gingerbread-Candy-Install-Guide.pdf from your download. On page 2, tap Get the Quick Install and open it in Safari, not Chrome. On a computer? The Quick Install QR code is on page 2 of the PDF guide in your download: scan it with your iPhone Camera.
Tap Allow, then Close.
Open Settings and tap Profile Downloaded.
Tap Install, enter your passcode, then tap Install again. iOS shows the profile as signed by dl.frenetiq.design.

Do steps 3 and 4 within 8 minutes. Too late? Tap the button again.

Your original apps stay. To hide one, touch and hold it, then Remove App › Remove from Home Screen. The app is not deleted.

iPhone: any other icon

Each other icon is a shortcut that opens its app, set with the Shortcuts app. About a minute per icon: start with the apps on your first Home Screen page.

Step 3: tap the name at the top, then Add to Home Screen.

Open Shortcuts and tap +.
Search Open App and pick your app.
Tap the name at the top, then Add to Home Screen.
Tap the small icon, then Choose File: in Downloads, open Gingerbread-Candy-Phone-Theme-Icons, then Icons, and pick one.
Type a name and tap Add. Repeat for each app.

Icon names missing? Your iPhone uses Large icons (iOS 18): touch and hold the Home Screen, tap Edit › Customize and choose Small.

iPhone: wallpaper

In Wallpapers, open the iPhone image, then tap Share › Save Image.
Go to Settings › Wallpaper › Add New Wallpaper › Photos, pick the image and tap Add.

Android: set up Nova Launcher

Most Android home screens can’t use your own pictures as icons. Nova Launcher is a free app that draws your home screen and can. You set it up once.

Step 2: choose Nova Launcher, then Set as default.

Install Nova Launcher from Google Play. It’s free.
Open Nova, tap Get started, choose Nova Launcher and tap Set as default.
Nova Prime or Plus appears? Tap ✕. The free version is enough.
Tap → through the setup, then Go home.
Not your Home app yet? Settings › Apps › Default apps › Home app › Nova Launcher.
Once: open Nova Settings › Look & feel › Icon style › Icon shape and pick Rounded square, so each icon shows whole. Scroll the list to find Look & feel.

Nova may ask about your data now. Choose either option: the icons work both ways. Stuck on a Nova screen? Contact Support.

Android: change the icons

About a minute per icon. Start with the apps on your first home screen.

Step 2: tap the icon picture, then **Gallery apps**.

Touch and hold an app, then tap the pencil ✎ (Edit).
Tap the icon picture, then Gallery apps › Files.
In Files tap ☰ › Downloads, open Gingerbread-Candy-Phone-Theme-Icons, then Icons, and pick one. The files are named after the app, such as mail.png or browser.png.
Tap Done.
Leave Reshape ticked, so the icon takes the rounded square shape. Tap Done again. Repeat for each app.

Android: wallpaper

Touch and hold an empty spot on the home screen, then tap Wallpapers › Pick image.
Tap ⋮ › Browse…. If it opens in another folder, tap Downloads in the path at the top. Open Gingerbread-Candy-Phone-Theme-Wallpapers and pick the Android image.
Tap ✓ Set wallpaper. With one wallpaper, choose Home and lock screen.
With two wallpapers, pick Lock Screen - Android and choose Lock screen. Then repeat with Home Screen - Android and choose Home screen.

Day & night

Gingerbread Candy comes with the wallpaper twice: Gingerbread House by day and Gingerbread House Night by night. Your iPhone can switch to the night one at sunset and back at sunrise.

Repeat the iPhone wallpaper steps with Gingerbread House Night. Both are now in your wallpaper list.
Open Shortcuts › Automation, tap + (or New Automation), then Time of Day.
Pick Sunset, choose Run Immediately, tap Next.
Tap New Blank Automation, search Switch Between Wallpapers and tap it.
Tap Wallpaper in the action and pick the night picture by its preview, then tap Done.
Repeat steps 2 to 5 with Sunrise and the day picture.

Android doesn’t switch on its own: in the evening repeat the Android wallpaper steps with Gingerbread House Night, in the morning with Gingerbread House.

Samsung, Xiaomi and other phones

Samsung: Galaxy Themes can’t use these pictures, so use Nova. Home app: Settings › Apps › Choose default apps › Home app › Nova Launcher.

Xiaomi: the Themes app can’t use these pictures, so use Nova. Home app: Settings › Apps › Default apps › Home app › Nova Launcher. Swipe gestures not working? Switch to buttons in System navigation.

Want your old home screen back? Pick it again in Home app. Nothing is deleted.