Even if you don't use them as much? For example my page 1 home screen has the Mail app, Maps, and News even though I use the Gmail app, Google Maps, and Google News more. The Google stuff I have on page 2. Not sure if it is OCD but I can't bring myself to have them on the first page and have Apple apps deleted or moved to the second page.
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Other Do you have OCD to the extent your iOS home screen needs to have Apple apps?
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I can't even remotely relate to this.
1. You have obviously introspected some. Introspect deeper. The answers lie there.
2. Get outside the comfort zone, and just move the apps out. Train your brain to see that nothing ill happened. Relax.
3. Take it slow, move one app at a time.
I do not like to put labels to human behaviour since I am not a psychologist/ psychiatrist who needs to use those labels. So, OCD or not, this is at the root a comfort zone that you can decide to get out of or not. If you decide to get out, then decide if you want to go guns blazing or do you want to do it one app at a time. All the while, let it be known that moving those apps to the second screen will not cause any negative consequences.
I have owned an iPhone for the better part of this decade and only in the second half did I realise that I was mindlessly swiping to the second screen to get to my apps. I never bothered with the first screen since I used none of those apps initially. Only years later did I start moving apps out and bringing new ones in on the first page to save me some time incrementally.
Today, I have my email client, notes app, task manager, outlining tool on the first page. These are apps that I am happy to have on the first screen. Second screen contains everything else.
Good luck!
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It's not so much that first page needs to be Apple apps but rather the App Store places new icons on page 2 onwards when installing apps. I tend to keep all my apps organized by folders on the 2nd page and treat that as my actual home screen with the 1st page pretty much just for "utilities".
My most used apps are on the dock anyway.
My most used apps are on the dock anyway.
It is your iPhone. Use it the way you want to use it, you do not need to justify to anyone how you use your device. Initially I did that same thing, left the first screen as is since I wasn't using anything from it. Then one fine day I thought I could use some apps on the first screen and save a swipe every time I open the phone.
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Nah, I've gotten used to the placement.
Besides, I actually do use the Apple apps on the home screen: Contacts, Mail, Messages, Calendar, Photos, Camera, Clock, Notes, Reminders, FaceTime, Wallet, App Store, iTunes Store, Apple Watch, Maps (in a folder with GoogleMaps and Sigalert). As mentioned, it's basically my "utilities" screen.
The Apple apps I don't use get shuffled to a Miscellaneous folder on the last page (at least before Apple started allowing deleting those shortcuts if not the app itself).
Like I mentioned, the apps I use the most are in the dock which is accessible from any page (Phone, Safari, ebook readers and frequently used utilities: Settings, Findy My, Calculator, Files, Dropbox).
Nope not me. I got my most use apps there. So my Nest app to control my HVAC or check the temps in the house. Also Spotify is on there temporarily (I have a free trial). My tesla app is super important since I use that to control my car (check charge, turn on hvac, etc). I have 1Password to manage my app. I think I might move waze to the second page because I don’t use it as much. Also YouTube is also very much used daily. I also use overcast for my podcast app. I prefer that over the stock podcast app.
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I have one item in my dock, period. It's a folder and any app I want to be able to access no matter what homescreen I happen to be on goes in that folder. Anything else is arranged by type across home screens, ex. time and weather on one screen, media apps on another, etc.
No, I put the apps I use the most on my home screen as the point of it is to make the experience as easy as possible. Putting apps there just because they are Apple? Err no.
Nope, there are only 3 rows of frequently used stock apps that I have on my home screen. The other stock apps are in my junk folder which I would never really touch.
I don’t think that qualifies as OCD which is actually a pretty nasty condition to have. I used to have only Apple stuff on the first home screen before I finally came around to only showing the apps that I need every day on a home screen - everything else gets thrown into folders.
Just use what you’re happy with and don’t overthink things, life is too short to worry.
The only ocd I have is that I can't go back to light mode. I'm in dark mode 100% of the tkme.
It’s totally OCD. I have OCD, too. It sucks. I feel you. All my apps and folders are alphabetized except on the dock.
I have all the default Apple apps on the first and some on second screens. I do use all the apps since my life is “de-googled”
....my OCD tells me to put ALL the apps on the second page and just have 4 single apps in the dock on the first screen, so that my entire first screen is blank!!!
You just can't win....!!
You just can't win....!!