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.

 

[-BigMac-]

It's not a home page. Home page is the first page you come to, when your phone is turned on, effectively the desktop if it was a 'computer'.

When you go to a restaurant, and don't want breakfast, or dessert, do you ask for the waiters to only bring a food menu, without anything other than the food you want? No! I suggest if you want an OS to do exactly what your heart desires, build one.

With your analogy..
no i dont go asking for a menu which only has food i want on it. But just because it’s on the menu doesnt mean I order it when I dont want it. Aka a toggle.
It can be there on the menu, but don't force me to eat it.

 

[-BigMac-]

Pro tip: Stop swiping beyond your last home page and you’ll never see the library ever again.

So why not just have a toggle?

Majority of people here agree

 

[-BigMac-]

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.

600 apps? What on earth

Dudes running a command centre from
the palm of his hand

 

[GrassShark]

So why not just have a toggle?

Majority of people here agree

It's barely a majority, and even if it was a full majority it's not a representative sample of Apple's customers.

Rounding up, you have 100 people agreeing with you.
Google says that Macrumors has 1M members, so even if we assume 75% of those accounts are no longer active, you have 0.04% of this audience agreeing with you.

That's a rounding error within an audience that is already a tiny minority of iPhone users.

I don't even disagree that there should be a toggle, but this poll is evidence of nothing.

 

[tim_apple]

We don’t need yet another setting. The app library is easily ignored.

 

[Artemiz]

It's barely a majority, and even if it was a full majority it's not a representative sample of Apple's customers.

Rounding up, you have 100 people agreeing with you.
Google says that Macrumors has 1M members, so even if we assume 75% of those accounts are no longer active, you have 0.04% of this audience agreeing with you.

That's a rounding error within an audience that is already a tiny minority of iPhone users.

I don't even disagree that there should be a toggle, but this poll is evidence of nothing.

That’s how polls work — a small sample used to represent a much larger population. The only caveat here is that you can’t definitively say the sample is diverse enough.

 

[GrassShark]

The only caveat here is that you can’t definitively say the sample is diverse enough.

It's barely a majority, and even if it was a full majority it's not a representative sample of Apple's customers.

Are we not saying the same thing?

 

[Artemiz]

Are we not saying the same thing?

What you’re saying is that it definitely doesn’t represent the majority and should be dismissed. I’m entertaining the possibility that, if a proper poll were conducted, the results might still reflect what we’re seeing here. Just a minor difference.

 

[throAU]

Whilst I use it, AND I do agree with the switch to disable it.... you can ignore it, it's just beyond the last page of icons.

However if you were to remove all the icons like I have and then disable it, there'd need to be some way to set a default icon layout again.

 

[GrassShark]

What you’re saying is that it definitely doesn’t represent the majority and should be dismissed. I’m entertaining the possibility that, if a proper poll were conducted, the results might still reflect what we’re seeing here. Just a minor difference.

Those are literally the same thing. What is conducting a proper poll if not dismissing this one for not being a proper poll?