Managing Your Home Screen App Icons On iOS 15 

This is the best video explaining how to manage all the damn Apps. Thanks.

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!!

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.

A very useful and a very fun video tutorial today! I learned so much. Thanks for the visuals! Thank you, Gary! 👍👏🏻❤️

Thank you! Wish they made a way for apps not to auto arrange…when you move an app around.

Cheers Gary, Excellent content. Needed this

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, RU-vid, 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,)

TQSM Sifu! God bless you!

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.

Thanks Gary. Exactly what I have been looking for. And easy to boot!

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!

Very useful. Thank you

Very clear and concise and intelligent, thank you

Awesome lesson

So terrific to learn this. Many thanks

Excellent instructions

Some real gems there. Many thanks.

Great information. Thank you.

Thank you Brilliant and clear as usual, helped me a lot and speeded me up somewhat.

Wonderfully and CLEARLY explained! Thank you!

So many questions answered today.😀

You are so clear, I was just left with the library not understanding what it was, all icons back & wiser.

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.

Thanks

My 1st venture into Apple. Very helpful. Thanks 👍

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!

was looking for information on moving several icons/apps at once. mahalo!

Wow, that two finger stacking method for ordering app icons on a screen is fantastic! Thanks for showing us the hidden features of iOS.

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.

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. 😉) 👍

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

I like that idea of using a Bluetooth mouse to organize. Great tips. Thanks

This solved my problem on how to add an app to the dock

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

Is there option to Auto arrange the icons?

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 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.

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

The key learning point for me was how to draw multiple icons at once.

Great job with another fantastic video. In regards to the dock: is it possible to have

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.

Please do a video on dual sim usage in iPhones, and how efficient is that using dual sim in iPhones.

But for some reason it keeps filling my home page with the next page of apps even though I don’t want that

Thanks Bunches. How do you get the mouse to work with an iPad or iPhone?

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?

You CAN stack widgets

Thanks Gary, I am wondering how you are able to record an iPhone screen with the notch and bezels?

I’m following your instruction to put an app icon from the library back to my Home Screen, but that choice is not available

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?

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)?

Thank Gary for this video ,I think your name is Gary , hope I am right, Kind Regards

Why do the other icons move all over the page why can’t the other icons stay in their locations

How to move. Dots if. They are on another page beside. Home page im afraid they will be erased

How do you connect a Bluetooth Logitech 3-button mouse with iPhone 15? The mouse has no pairing button.

My homescreen icons wont move

Android lets you drop them anywhere you like, without shifting everything. So much easier

Is there a way to make them in alphabetical order?

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.

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

Please .. what are the maximum numbers of home screens ?

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.

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!

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.