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How to Hide Home Screen App Pages on iPhone in iOS 14

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With so many apps available for iPhone on the App Store, it doesn't take long before you download so many that managing them can start to get a bit tiresome and unwieldy. Having multiple pages of apps extending off the initial Home Screen can be a burden, especially if you like to organize what you can see on the screen into any sort of meaningful order.

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Fortunately, in iOS 14 and later, Apple allows you to hide individual pages of apps from sight. This not only gives your iPhone a tidier look and feel, but it also serves to bring the App Library closer to your initial Home Screen, making it that much easier to access using fewer swipes.

How to Hide iPhone App Pages on the Home Screen

  1. Long press on a blank area of the Home Screen or any additional page of apps.
  2. Once in jiggle mode, tap the app page dot icons just above the Dock at the bottom of the screen.
  3. Tap to uncheck any app pages that you want to hide.
  4. Tap Done in the top-right corner of the screen to finish.
  5. Tap Done in the top-right corner to exit out of jiggle mode.
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To reinstate any app pages you hid using this method, simply follow the steps again, but in step 3, check the app pages you want to unhide instead.

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I never liked scrolling through multiple pages of apps. My main apps are directly available on the home screen. Apps I use less frequently are organized into categorized folders on the home screen. It makes it much faster to find what I'm looking for. I don't have loads of apps either. If it's not useful. I remove it.

I only use a second page for apps I don't use but can't uninstall. All placed in a folder called junk. Thankfully there aren't many. As Apple allows removal of many factory apps.

While I can see the uses. If the apps on a page are all used so infrequently that the page may be hidden. Perhaps it is time to cull the junk.
 
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itsmilo said:
yeah. Home Page has my most frequently used apps and the 2nd page is just apps put into categorized folders. Same reason I have no use for the new App Library screen
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EXACTLY. Me too. One home page screen with the most commonly accessed apps - everything else in a categorized/genre'ized (?) folder. Easy peasy. No need whatsoever for an App Library screen. I can't imagine anyone NOT doing it this way, in fact.
 
edwrap said:
Can you hide the App Library page or is it mandatory? I try not to have too many apps installed, so I already have everything on one page
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so the app library isn't really a page (not one you can remove at least), but when you swype left to go right it's there. I have a singe "home" page and everything else lives in the app drawer.
 
Is this available on the iPhone 8 and the others with rectangular screens? I'm noticing the UI looks like it's built for the "ears" at the top of the screen on iPhone X series.
 
Took me a minute to understand what the point of this was, but now I get it. I don’t think I’ll have much if any use for this or the app library page, but I can see it’d be a good option for people with a huge amount of apps they can’t organise any more efficiently than they have done already. It kind of feels like an easy gesture or button to get the app library page would be a less finicky solution though (does that exist? maybe it does, I don’t know).

I only find I need a few pages for apps in folders and I could probably get it down to two if I had to. More options for configuring all of this stuff according to taste and circumstance is great though.
 
Yeah, I’m sure everyone who doesn’t hang out at tech sites will figure this one out.
 
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ArtOfWarfare said:
Is this available on the iPhone 8 and the others with rectangular screens? I'm noticing the UI looks like it's built for the "ears" at the top of the screen on iPhone X series.
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Yes, I have the 2020 SE and it works as described. The only IOS14 feature I seem to be lacking is tapping the back of your phone for commands. That seems to be limited to phones with tap to wake, eg. no home button.
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Joniz said:
Yeah, I’m sure everyone who doesn’t hang out at tech sites will figure this one out.
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Indeed. I had no idea it existed prior to this article. I would have hid one of my pages instead of deleting the apps one by one.
 
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mattopotamus said:
The only IOS14 feature I seem to be lacking is tapping the back of your phone for commands. That seems to be limited to phones with tap to wake, eg. no home button.
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If I recall correctly, the story is that the newer phones have an improved motion sensor that’s better at reading those taps, which is why only some phones have the feature.
 
iOS 14 has completely changed how I used my phone. I have a handful of apps I use regularly on my home screen, and the Siri Suggestions widget at the bottom. I have all the other pages turned off, and use the App Drawer/Library for getting to most (if I don't use spotlight, which is honestly my go-to method, and has been for a long time now).

So far, the BIGGEST thing has been the awesome new additions to HomeKit and Shortcuts.

Big fan of this version. And this Beta has been ridiculously stable on my 11 Pro Max and iPad Pro 2018. Highly recommend.
 
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