So you hate looking at that long Verizon or Telekom text at the top of your iPhone, but you don’t want to jailbreak your iPhone.  Luckily there is a small program out there to change your carrier icon to a pre-selected icon from the batch they give you, or you can create a custom one using Fireworks to give it a more personal feel with our small tutorial.

Custom logo from downhoard

First you will need to boot up your Mac (Mac only) and download Carrier Editor [Direct Download]

• Once downloaded, open the program and click Let’s Get Started
• Grab your iPhone and open Settings > General > About then scroll down to Carrier
• You will need to type in the version number such as: 13.1
• Next will pop up a long list of carriers, please select your current carrier otherwise this will create a problem for your iPhone
• Once selected move onto the logo section next, and you can now drag and drop the logos given with the download or add your custom one with Adobe Fireworks
• Save to desktop for easy access once loaded into the program, if not then search for it as a Most Recent
• Plug your iPhone into iTunes and HOLD Alt/Option then click Restore while holding Alt/Option
• A window will pop up and simply select the two files and then you will have a new carrier icon
• We recommend you Restart your iPhone

You can even use custom icons, and upload your own if you wish!  We have a set of secondary icons made by downhoard here!