Great video. Learned a few new things. Here’s another one: you can also drag an app folder on to the dock. It’s a very handy way to get around the four-app limit.
Thank you. Moving apps is not as precise as you show in general. Moving to another screen often reshuffles existing apps and it’s often a juggling process. Wish they would find a way to customise app positioning in a virtual screen then go live. Also this would be useful if you have to go through the same thing with iPads.
It's almost 2022 and Apple STILL will not let you put icons where you prefer on the home screen. At this point all I can assume is that Apple loves to jerk us around. I have to admit though, that you blew my mind with that "group dragging and ordering" scenario!!
For years, I have been lost on my phone. And hate to ask someone since everyone is so busy, and if you ask the answer will be given in a couple of seconds with: 'do this, and then this," as they zoom around the screen and finish with "there, wasn't that easy"?. Thank heaven to find you. And, you speak English and talk slowly enough to grasp what you are saying! I have subscribed, happily, and look forward to learning from you. I am also going to tell my friends about you!
One additional technique that some of us have found useful is the following. If you want to move an app across multiple Home Screens, and if you have an empty space in your Dock, move the app from its original Home Screen to the Dock, then swipe until you get to your destination Home Screen, then move your app from the Dock to that destination Home Screen.
Good to know about the home screen setting options available in focus mode. Will come in handy for maintaining… focus. ))) Useful content as always Gary. Thanks!
You are not limited to 4 apps on the bottom of your iPhone, you have 4 placeholders. If you combine apps into folders as you suggested one can do, you can move a folder to the bottom of your screen to occupy one of the 4 placeholders giving you options for more apps that show up on all screens. The 4 on my phone are the Settings App, Phone folder(which includes the Phone app and shortcuts to connect to certain people I call all of the time), Google Apps folder(with - Drive, RUclips, Docs, Sheets, Slides, Classroom, Google Keep, Gmail, Assistant, Meet), and Apple Apps Folder (with - Contacts, Messages, Facetime, Mail, App Store, Reminders, Facetime, Find My, Watch, Tips, Calendar, Shortcuts, and Support,)
Whoa, finally! A demonstration of the grabbing multiple app icons at once feature that actually showed the fingers so i was able to do it… you’d think a third year cad/bim/product+architectural design student would know how to drag multiple icons at once on an iphone, but nope lmao. i had been organizing them by hand and whining about how unintuitive it is for years, i feel so silly now! tbh i really think they should have optional built in lessons (maybe as tip pop ups or something?) about these weird little hidden features when you upgrade the phone… or maybe that exists already and i can’t find it lol
Thank you. I'm a Windows PC user. I just got my first iPhone XR. I'm _so_ lost. I really needed this. Very informative and very helpful. (Hope you don't mind if I hang out for a while. 😉) 👍
To move an icon to next home screen .. a better way is to long press the icon until everything vibrates... then don't move that icon to the edge of the screen... instead use another finger to swipe on screen to change home screen(remember you are still holding you icon with one finger) and let the icon go... it is faster and more efficient
I get all new apps which I download to Home Screen because then I remember actually test/use them and if they are good enough I will move them to folder or make shortcut for them and if I notice that I haven't use that app at all and it's still at Home Screen I know that I can delete that app completely. If I let them go only to App Library I will not remember to try them at all :-D
I wish they came up with a way to pair the iPhone with the Mac, so you can do al this app arranging on the mac, using a mouse, and then just click sync to iPhone.
Very helpful. A few notes: (1) When you demonstrated dragging the Wiki icon from search results to a home screen, it didn’t actually land! It vanished! (2) There doesn’t seem to be any way to rearrange icons within the folders, they stubbornly stay in the order they were added. I keep a folder of all the newspapers I subscribe to, and I want to keep the active subscriptions on top. The only workaround seems to be to drag each icon out and then back into the folder which makes it land at the end of the list. It’s kind of like playing that children’s game “15“ (3) I really wish there was a way to synchronize home screens between iPhone and iPad, it is so discouraging to get everything set up nicely on one, and then realize you have to start from scratch on the other.
Thanks, When I move widgets around, the other apps seem to fly wildly around and rearrange themselves in ways that I don’t anticipate or want. Any suggestions?
Move slowly and observe how they move. There is a logic to it. Remember the screens are a list from the top left to bottom right. You don't position icons horizontally and vertically so much as their position in the list: first, second, third, etc.
@@macmost Biggest issue I have is when trying to place an app in the upper left corner - I either end up creating a folder by mistake or the phone switches to the previous home page. Any tips/tricks to fix that one?
@@macmost Yes - Slow is better for sure. It's just so easy to invoke the previous home screen! - any quick tips for nuking a folder created by accident? All I can see is dragging back out the app before letting go but sometimes doesn't seem to work...
7:30 OMG WHAT!?!?! how long have you been able to do this?!?!? lol i've been mad at apple for so long for not having an efficent way to rearrange your apps.
Found this when looking to see if anyone had made a video showing the full panic of moving apps from one full home screen to a folder in a previous full home screen, where pure chaos ensues - an item from your first page can get shuffled to the second page, potentially shuffling an icon to a third page, etc. So awful.
Hi Gary! Slightly off topic question. In my iPhone 11, I have these apps: Amazon, Amazon Alexa and Amazon Photos. However, If I am in home screen, use the Search facility, and type Amazon - the only response I get is for Amazon Photos!! Similarly if I type Alexa, I get no response! Any idea why that might be happening?
I'm not. Recording gets a perfect rectangle, event with the pixels that won't be shown in the corners or under the notch. I'm just overlaying an iPhone graphic.
You'll need to look at the docs for the device and see how pairing is normally done. If you can't figure it out from that, then you may need to contact their support. Maybe it is one of those that is not a real Bluetooth mouse, but instead uses its own connection (A USB stick that you plug into your computer?)
Gary: It seems like when I add an app to my iPhone 15 pro mix, an icon for that app appears on my wife's iPhone 12 mini, but not downloaded. We both share my iCloud account, and have our own Apple id's. Can you tell me what is going on and how to stop it? She can go to the App Library screen, and delete the app and so far that process hasn't deleted the app from my iPhone. Thank you
Not sure what you have going on. If you have different Apple IDs then you are using different iCloud accounts. But you say you are using the same iCloud account, which means you have the same Apple ID (Apple ID = Apple Account = iCloud Account). And since she sees the apps you acquire, then it make sense that you are using the same iCloud Account. Apple sees you as the same person, just someone that has two devices.
@@macmost I like how you explain the accounts. I have 2 TB of iCloud storage. I thought my wife could you use the same cloud storage, but each of us have a separate bucket. I think I must be doing something wrong in my set-up. Did you do a video on how to share iCloud storage, while keeping information / iPhone apps separate? Thank you
@@radensj If you have 2 TB and you are using Family Sharing with her, then you are both using the same 2 TB "bucket." But she can also have her own 2 TB plan too, so she would have 2 TB + some of yours. See www.apple.com/family-sharing/
I’ve never understood why Apple added the library with a somewhat random decision as to what goes in each library when I can use a folder to arrange similar apps in an organized way. Seems like just an extra Home Screen.
@@macmost ah trust me to use the harder way lol. In my defence I think folders were around before the library feature. Is there a way to erase the library page?
Why do some Icon apps not comply, you can hold your finger down on it but it just won't get the Delete at the top of the screen , I have around 8 of these pricks that I dragged as far from the main screen as possible, I will never use them!
Great video. Learned a few new things. Here’s another one: you can also drag an app folder on to the dock. It’s a very handy way to get around the four-app limit.
Thank you! Wish they made a way for apps not to auto arrange…when you move an app around.
I would be ok having the ability to lock icons to the Home Screen. Glad I'm not the only one that dislikes this.
You are so clear, I was just left with the library not understanding what it was, all icons back & wiser.
Thank you. Moving apps is not as precise as you show in general. Moving to another screen often reshuffles existing apps and it’s often a juggling process. Wish they would find a way to customise app positioning in a virtual screen then go live. Also this would be useful if you have to go through the same thing with iPads.
It's almost 2022 and Apple STILL will not let you put icons where you prefer on the home screen. At this point all I can assume is that Apple loves to jerk us around. I have to admit though, that you blew my mind with that "group dragging and ordering" scenario!!
For years, I have been lost on my phone. And hate to ask someone since everyone is so busy, and if you ask the answer will be given in a couple of seconds with: 'do this, and then this," as they zoom around the screen and finish with "there, wasn't that easy"?. Thank heaven to find you. And, you speak English and talk slowly enough to grasp what you are saying! I have subscribed, happily, and look forward to learning from you. I am also going to tell my friends about you!
I've been using an iPhone for many years. This video was EXTREMELY helpful for me and showed me some very useful techniques to manage apps.
A very useful and a very fun video tutorial today! I learned so much. Thanks for the visuals! Thank you, Gary! 👍👏🏻❤️
One additional technique that some of us have found useful is the following. If you want to move an app across multiple Home Screens, and if you have an empty space in your Dock, move the app from its original Home Screen to the Dock, then swipe until you get to your destination Home Screen, then move your app from the Dock to that destination Home Screen.
I heve. Allot on back page
I hope lt works
This is the best video explaining how to manage all the damn Apps. Thanks.
Very clear and concise and intelligent, thank you
Wow, that two finger stacking method for ordering app icons on a screen is fantastic! Thanks for showing us the hidden features of iOS.
Good to know about the home screen setting options available in focus mode. Will come in handy for maintaining… focus. ))) Useful content as always Gary. Thanks!
You are not limited to 4 apps on the bottom of your iPhone, you have 4 placeholders. If you combine apps into folders as you suggested one can do, you can move a folder to the bottom of your screen to occupy one of the 4 placeholders giving you options for more apps that show up on all screens. The 4 on my phone are the Settings App, Phone folder(which includes the Phone app and shortcuts to connect to certain people I call all of the time), Google Apps folder(with - Drive, RUclips, Docs, Sheets, Slides, Classroom, Google Keep, Gmail, Assistant, Meet), and Apple Apps Folder (with - Contacts, Messages, Facetime, Mail, App Store, Reminders, Facetime, Find My, Watch, Tips, Calendar, Shortcuts, and Support,)
Whoa, finally!
A demonstration of the grabbing multiple app
icons at once feature that actually showed
the fingers so i was able to do it…
you’d think a third year
cad/bim/product+architectural design student
would know how to drag multiple icons at once on an iphone, but nope lmao.
i had been organizing them by hand and
whining about how unintuitive it is for years,
i feel so silly now!
tbh i really think they should have
optional built in lessons
(maybe as tip pop ups or something?)
about these weird little hidden features
when you upgrade the phone…
or maybe that exists already and i can’t find it lol
So many questions answered today.😀
Thank you. I'm a Windows PC user. I just got my first iPhone XR. I'm _so_ lost. I really needed this. Very informative and very helpful. (Hope you don't mind if I hang out for a while. 😉) 👍
To move an icon to next home screen .. a better way is to long press the icon until everything vibrates... then don't move that icon to the edge of the screen... instead use another finger to swipe on screen to change home screen(remember you are still holding you icon with one finger) and let the icon go... it is faster and more efficient
was looking for information on moving several icons/apps at once. mahalo!
My 1st venture into Apple. Very helpful. Thanks 👍
Wonderfully and CLEARLY explained! Thank you!
I get all new apps which I download to Home Screen because then I remember actually test/use them and if they are good enough I will move them to folder or make shortcut for them and if I notice that I haven't use that app at all and it's still at Home Screen I know that I can delete that app completely. If I let them go only to App Library I will not remember to try them at all :-D
Cheers Gary, Excellent content. Needed this
This solved my problem on how to add an app to the dock
I wish they came up with a way to pair the iPhone with the Mac, so you can do al this app arranging on the mac, using a mouse, and then just click sync to iPhone.
Excellent instructions
TQSM Sifu! God bless you!
Thanks Gary. Exactly what I have been looking for. And easy to boot!
I like that idea of using a Bluetooth mouse to organize. Great tips. Thanks
Very useful. Thank you
Some real gems there. Many thanks.
Awesome lesson
Thank you Brilliant and clear as usual, helped me a lot and speeded me up somewhat.
Very helpful. A few notes: (1) When you demonstrated dragging the Wiki icon from search results to a home screen, it didn’t actually land! It vanished! (2) There doesn’t seem to be any way to rearrange icons within the folders, they stubbornly stay in the order they were added. I keep a folder of all the newspapers I subscribe to, and I want to keep the active subscriptions on top. The only workaround seems to be to drag each icon out and then back into the folder which makes it land at the end of the list. It’s kind of like playing that children’s game “15“ (3) I really wish there was a way to synchronize home screens between iPhone and iPad, it is so discouraging to get everything set up nicely on one, and then realize you have to start from scratch on the other.
So terrific to learn this. Many thanks
Great job with another fantastic video. In regards to the dock: is it possible to have
you can have less than 4, in the example in the video, when he removed one there were only 3 at the time.
The key learning point for me was how to draw multiple icons at once.
Thanks
You CAN stack widgets
i have a few widgets that i stack on the home screen. it can be done. i have a feeling Gary misspoke there
But for some reason it keeps filling my home page with the next page of apps even though I don’t want that
Not sure what you are saying there.
Thanks, When I move widgets around, the other apps seem to fly wildly around and rearrange themselves in ways that I don’t anticipate or want. Any suggestions?
Move slowly and observe how they move. There is a logic to it. Remember the screens are a list from the top left to bottom right. You don't position icons horizontally and vertically so much as their position in the list: first, second, third, etc.
@@macmost Biggest issue I have is when trying to place an app in the upper left corner - I either end up creating a folder by mistake or the phone switches to the previous home page. Any tips/tricks to fix that one?
@@sampurkin6838 Perhaps you are moving to fast. Grab the icon and move slowly to get the hang of it.
@@macmost Yes - Slow is better for sure. It's just so easy to invoke the previous home screen! - any quick tips for nuking a folder created by accident? All I can see is dragging back out the app before letting go but sometimes doesn't seem to work...
@@sampurkin6838 Just drag the two icons out of the folder. You drag one and while doing so tap to drag the other like I show in the tutorial.
Please do a video on dual sim usage in iPhones, and how efficient is that using dual sim in iPhones.
I don't use them so I can't really do a video on that, sorry.
7:30 OMG WHAT!?!?! how long have you been able to do this?!?!? lol
i've been mad at apple for so long for not having an efficent way to rearrange your apps.
Found this when looking to see if anyone had made a video showing the full panic of moving apps from one full home screen to a folder in a previous full home screen, where pure chaos ensues - an item from your first page can get shuffled to the second page, potentially shuffling an icon to a third page, etc. So awful.
I’m following your instruction to put an app icon from the library back to my Home Screen, but that choice is not available
perhaps that particular app is already on a home screen, maybe in a folder?
Is there option to Auto arrange the icons?
Thank Gary for this video ,I think your name is Gary , hope I am right, Kind Regards
Android lets you drop them anywhere you like, without shifting everything. So much easier
Hi Gary!
Slightly off topic question. In my iPhone 11, I have these apps: Amazon, Amazon Alexa and Amazon Photos.
However, If I am in home screen, use the Search facility, and type Amazon - the only response I get is for Amazon Photos!! Similarly if I type Alexa, I get no response! Any idea why that might be happening?
Sorry, I don't know why that is happening for you.
Is there a way to add apps to a group/folder and then add that folder to another existing folder (creating a sub-folder within a folder)?
No, you can't nest folders.
@@macmost Thanks! Bummer!
Why do the other icons move all over the page why can’t the other icons stay in their locations
Thanks Gary, I am wondering how you are able to record an iPhone screen with the notch and bezels?
I'm not. Recording gets a perfect rectangle, event with the pixels that won't be shown in the corners or under the notch. I'm just overlaying an iPhone graphic.
@@macmost Thanks Gary, I will try that.
Hi Gary in IOS 15 I understand there is a built in weather app but I can't find it. Could you tell why Thanks
How do you connect a Bluetooth Logitech 3-button mouse with iPhone 15? The mouse has no pairing button.
You'll need to look at the docs for the device and see how pairing is normally done. If you can't figure it out from that, then you may need to contact their support. Maybe it is one of those that is not a real Bluetooth mouse, but instead uses its own connection (A USB stick that you plug into your computer?)
Is there a way to make them in alphabetical order?
They are in alphabetical order in the App Library.
How to move. Dots if. They are on another page beside. Home page im afraid they will be erased
Not sure what you are asking.
My homescreen icons wont move
Please .. what are the maximum numbers of home screens ?
Not sure. Think it is 15 or something around there. Why? What are you trying to DO?
@@macmost
I think so too .. I found it 15
Gary: It seems like when I add an app to my iPhone 15 pro mix, an icon for that app appears on my wife's iPhone 12 mini, but not downloaded. We both share my iCloud account, and have our own Apple id's. Can you tell me what is going on and how to stop it? She can go to the App Library screen, and delete the app and so far that process hasn't deleted the app from my iPhone. Thank you
Not sure what you have going on. If you have different Apple IDs then you are using different iCloud accounts. But you say you are using the same iCloud account, which means you have the same Apple ID (Apple ID = Apple Account = iCloud Account). And since she sees the apps you acquire, then it make sense that you are using the same iCloud Account. Apple sees you as the same person, just someone that has two devices.
@@macmost I like how you explain the accounts. I have 2 TB of iCloud storage. I thought my wife could you use the same cloud storage, but each of us have a separate bucket. I think I must be doing something wrong in my set-up. Did you do a video on how to share iCloud storage, while keeping information / iPhone apps separate? Thank you
@@radensj If you have 2 TB and you are using Family Sharing with her, then you are both using the same 2 TB "bucket." But she can also have her own 2 TB plan too, so she would have 2 TB + some of yours. See www.apple.com/family-sharing/
Thanks Bunches. How do you get the mouse to work with an iPad or iPhone?
Settings, Accessibility, Touch, Assistive Touch. I have a video coming up this week about it.
I just want to keep my apps on the Home Screen from moving accidentally. I haven’t found that yet. Anyone? On android it’s a simple lock home.
I’ve never understood why Apple added the library with a somewhat random decision as to what goes in each library when I can use a folder to arrange similar apps in an organized way. Seems like just an extra Home Screen.
If you want to take the time to organize into folders, then you don't need the Library. But many people just want simple and easy.
@@macmost ah trust me to use the harder way lol. In my defence I think folders were around before the library feature. Is there a way to erase the library page?
@@qwincyq6412 No, but you don't need to go to it ever if you don't want it.
Why do some Icon apps not comply, you can hold your finger down on it but it just won't get the Delete at the top of the screen , I have around 8 of these pricks that I dragged as far from the main screen as possible, I will never use them!
Maybe those are the built-in apps. You can remove them from your Home Screen then, but you can't uninstall them because the system requires them.
I just bought iphone, but will never buy agen😢. What a waste of money. You can nit have your own order if icons...
After all these years of iOS development, organizing your app icons is still pretty garbage and frustrating.
Great information. Thank you.