App Library is useless

[NewOldStock]

Programmers/dev be like here hold my beer.
Watch them go mad.
you you you...
I think apple programmers do strange things for fun.
Keeps websites like these floating.
Rounded corners and a New calculator what amazing stories.
What you say there is no humor in that> lol
Jokes on you.
Those darn little gotchas.

 

[HouseLannister]

Programmers/dev be like here hold my beer.
Watch them go mad.
you you you...
I think apple programmers do strange things for fun.
Keeps websites like these floating.
Rounded corners and a New calculator what amazing stories.
What you say there is no humor in that> lol
Jokes on you.
Those darn little gotchas.

 

[SalisburySam]

Programmers/dev be like here hold my beer.
Watch them go mad.
you you you...
I think apple programmers do strange things for fun.
Keeps websites like these floating.
Rounded corners and a New calculator what amazing stories.
What you say there is no humor in that> lol
Jokes on you.
Those darn little gotchas.

A couple of nice Haikus there. Was some good weed involved?

 

[Malbrute]

Its annoying that the App Library breaks the homescreen parallax effect: https://forums.macrumors.com/thread...oken-if-you-use-your-iphone-normally.2417254/

 

[BobVB]

I use it all the time. I have over 600 apps on my phone, this is where I can easily see all apps of a catagory and drag out the ones I need for the particular home page I am creating. (I mean we do have multiple focuses with completely different selections of apps on pages dedicated to that focus's purpose, right?). It'd be very hard to do that without the App Library.

 

[CyberDavis]

Maybe I’m too easy going, but it has never occurred to me that it could be a problem.
It has never caused me any grief and I’ve thought it was annoying.
🤷🏽

 

[adrianlondon]

I use it all the time. I have over 600 apps on my phone, this is where I can easily see all apps of a catagory and drag out the ones I need for the particular home page I am creating. (I mean we do have multiple focuses with completely different selections of apps on pages dedicated to that focus's purpose, right?). It'd be very hard to do that without the App Library.

The method I use when setting up apps for a focus-mode home-screen is to search for the app I want and drag that down.

 

[williamofockham]

I really don't care , but another toggle is irresistible

 

[Happy_John]

I really don't care , but another toggle is irresistible

Well, all the toggles are buried in Settings anyway, so 95% of users will neither know nor care, so why not for the 5% who do care?

While posters on forums like this see this as an existential issue, it’s been my experience in the real world that the vast majority of iPhone users go into their settings for issues other than Wi-Fi and Bluetooth about once a year at most.

 

[meDANOcine]

I use it all the time. I have over 600 apps on my phone, this is where I can easily see all apps of a catagory and drag out the ones I need for the particular home page I am creating. (I mean we do have multiple focuses with completely different selections of apps on pages dedicated to that focus's purpose, right?). It'd be very hard to do that without the App Library.

I have focus modes tied to locations, activities, and times. Each has their own one-page Home Screen layout, often incorporating the Siri suggestions widget. Everything else is accessible via a single swipe. IMO when used correctly, the App Library is one of the most useful features Apple has rolled out in the last few years. I have 400+ applications. I don't have time to sort and manage those into folders. I let the phone do the work.

 

[ProbablyDylan]

I wish we could set it to a list view instead of the automatically organized nonsense. I know I can swipe down in there to get a list view but that gets annoying.

 

[HouseLannister]

You know what is useless and needs a toggle to turn off… the widget screen to the left of home. I have had nothing there for years and swipe to it accidentally all the time.

 

[fatTribble]

You know what is useless and needs a toggle to turn off… the widget screen to the left of home. I have had nothing there for years and swipe to it accidentally all the time.

I’d be fine with a toggle. Everyone uses things differently. But I use that screen about a hundred times a day.

 

[Happy_John]

I’d be fine with a toggle. Everyone uses things differently. But I use that screen about a hundred times a day.

Yep, Before I had an Apple Watch (and AirPods) , it was an annoyance, but now I use it constantly for watch/health data and battery levels for all the satellite devices. It makes the most sense to give people options, and have tittles in settings to completely use the unwanted options. Choice is good.

 

[Neonblue]

You know what is useless and needs a toggle to turn off… the widget screen to the left of home. I have had nothing there for years and swipe to it accidentally all the time.

Nah, I put all my widgets in here..several of them, which is easier to scroll down through rather than taking up space and swiping through on my Home Screen.