How to Use App Library on iPhone to Create Categories and Folders

Hide apps and home screen pages

The apps you install on your iPhone are placed on the Home screen. Whether or not you use this app, it’s there, and all you could do was create a folder to house all the unnecessary apps. That’s how it always was, but not anymore. Go to Settings> Home screen, and now you can choose.

Select “ Add to Home screen ” if you want newly installed apps to always appear there and “ App library only ” if you want the app to go directly to a library category. applications. There is another option for notification badges. Turn it on if you want the familiar badge above the app icon in the app library. It’s on by default, and I recommend leaving it that way.

What about the legacy apps that have been cluttering your home screen for over a decade now? You can remove it the same way you uninstall apps. Long press on the app you want to remove and select Edit Home Screen. All apps will start shaking now with a minus icon on top.

Tap the minus icon to display a hidden menu where you can select Remove from home screen.

And you are done. Again, there is no way to select multiple apps to remove them all at once from the Home screen. But, there is a way to delete entire pages if you want to. Press and hold a space on the home screen to enter edit mode. Tap the dots icon representing the number of pages.

You will now see all pages with a check mark at the bottom. Tap once to remove the check mark and the page will disappear from the Home screen when you tap Done. I was unable to undo the changes for some reason which means my page is hidden at the moment. I can still see it in the edit view, but touching it doesn’t bring it back. I guess I’ll have to wait for an operating system update.

Press and hold any app in the app library to add it back to the home screen. Just the way you deleted it.

Note: Home screen folders work the same as before. Drag and drop one app on top of another to create a new folder that you can rename. I would like this to work in the app library as well.

Home Run

The beta looks promising, but there are some aspects of the new app library that I don’t like. And then there are a few bugs to be expected. I wish the App Library functionality was more flexible now that Apple has finally decided to give users more control. I want to be able to create and edit categories as I want. Apple can’t decide which app will go on my behalf. It’s just boring, but it’s a start.

Apple is opening up more and more year by year. Hopefully things will get even better with future updates. Until then, we’ll keep you posted.