Really? I love the App Library. I've deleted all of my pages of apps except the home page, and put my most used apps there. Everything else is in the App Library on the 2nd page. The apps are organized by type, with my most used ones front and center of each grouping. If there's an app I don't see, simply start typing in the search bar. I think it's one of the better features they've rolled out.
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Maybe I'm in the minority here, but I genuinely wonder how many people take the time to organize their home screens to this level. I have accumulated so many apps on my phone that, with the exception of maybe less than 10, I just swipe down and search. Those 10 are so apps have been in the same place for so long that I have muscle memory of where they are. Moving them to try and organize the view would cause more problems than it would fix.
It's super annoying, I hate this behavior. Oh you wanted to create a gap? Well have fun moving six apps instead of one!
In my experience on the PB they can be placed anywhere, unless I’m misunderstanding what you are saying.
I appreciate that the annoying application labels can finally be hidden, but leave it to Apple to hide it behind something dumb like having to make the icons huge.
People were screaming in the streets for this. “Boring”, “old fashioned”, “innovation where art thou?”
Watch them realise why the traditional layout was so handy, as they miss having their favourite Apps on the Home Screen 😏
I‘ll keep mine the way it is thanks…
Watch them realise why the traditional layout was so handy, as they miss having their favourite Apps on the Home Screen 😏
I‘ll keep mine the way it is thanks…
Nope, I don't want all these customisation features at all.
The only thing I would want is to get more apps on one page by reducing or eliminating the icons.
They have to sit in certain areas of the screen. Say I want a small widget to sit in the centre of the screen I can’t, it has to sit either on the left or the right. Why?
Fair enough. I guess its usefulness depends on how many apps we have and how we like to arrange them. I only use a handful of apps and have them organised in a specific way. So in my case, the App Library just seems like unnecessary duplication and clutter. My main issue is not being able to disable it.
Nope. Still buy an android and stop trying to turn iOS into android.
I tried it briefly and the new home screen options and my iPhone looked like any other crappy android Home Screen so I changed it.
Now it’s nothing except the dock and I use spotlight.
You mean Symbian which existed before android.
And let’s not act like android isn’t known for copying apple looks and features.
Samsung entire galaxy s-s4 line is an iPhone copycat lmao. And now the new Samsung gear.
I despised the musical chairs method and the icon grid in general. And in typical “modern Apple” style they went with the lead viable product. I’d love to hide icon labels and not have big icons but that’s apparently too much to ask for a year where so little, meaningful features were added (Jurry is out on the AI stuff since we won’t see it until next year)
Do you meticulously research which iOS features Android had first and refuse to use them all?
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So...a feature that is completely avoidable but vital to most users should be able to be turned off because some users don't like that it exists?
If it didn't exist, it would mean any app a user has chosen not to put on a home screen would only be accessible via search, which would be a poor user experience. Many users don't need (or want) to have all their apps on constant display where they have to spend time organising them, hence why the library exists.
I have my 8 or so most used apps on the home screen, the only reason I wanted to be able to move icons anywhere was because back when I was on Android I had those apps on my Home Screen on the bottom of the screen, given how phones rapidly got larger and larger even on the non Plus/Max models I found it difficult to reach things at the top of the screen one handed and I have large hands. The gesture to activate one handed mode felt like a bandaid for a bullet wound to me 🤷♂️
“Vital to most users”…debatable.
Also, is it really that difficult to have a toggle that hides the App Library? I’m not saying delete it entirely.
It’s now an integral part of the OS, and there’s very little use case in having such a function. A user can simply just not navigate to it, like not navigating to settings they never intend to use.
Also in iOS 18, the only way to navigate to hidden apps will be via the App Library.