Those freakin' folders

[jeejeebu]

That's actually what Spotlight Search is for. Many people including myself probably forget about this feature.

Yeah, the way I use my folders is not by subject, but importance. I have the apps I use most out of folders on the home screen, with one or two folders for other apps I use pretty often, but not every day. My second page is for overflow apps that I like to know where they are, but don't use them constantly. Those are not in folders. On the third page, I have all the rest of my apps in lots of folders, almost completely unorganized, just so I can limit my pages to three for cleanliness reasons. Anything I need that is not on page one or two, I ALWAYS find via Spotlight Search. Super easy.

But, what works for me might not work for anyone else. It's how I like it, and the app limit for folders has never bothered me.

 

[Jagardn]

That's actually what Spotlight Search is for. Many people including myself probably forget about this feature.

Exactly, that's what spotlight if for!
If you could put 100 apps in a folder, what good is it when you can't find the app your looking for in a huge cluttered folder?
I have all my most used apps on my home screen, then one page of folders, all of the folders are categorized and I put them in alphabetical order, even with all that, I still use spotlight.

 

[JetBlack7]

I understand what you mean about the whining, but there's another side to it. Comments like these help apple know what users want. That's why iOS 5 is getting a better notification system. Because of a lot of comments like these


People who love iOS can still be passionate about the changes they want to see.


I for one really want the folder limit removed. Badly

Pete

Agreed completely, I too would like the limit removed, but everytime I see some new thread, someone complains about something (specially comparing them to an Android, which really is annoying as hell) but I never said I didn't agree with what the OP said

 

[JetBlack7]

Exactly, that's what spotlight if for!
If you could put 100 apps in a folder, what good is it when you can't find the app your looking for in a huge cluttered folder?
I have all my most used apps on my home screen, then one page of folders, all of the folders are categorized and I put them in alphabetical order, even with all that, I still use spotlight.

I'm very "thingy" with folders actually, I have to have apps organized alphabetically from the first to last folder, or else I go nuts x)

 

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They should definitely make them scrollable or give them pages.

 

[Ubuntu]

Ok, well if you a super-long list that you can scroll through...isn't that what the normal iPhone screen without folders is? Go ahead...scroll on to the right to your heart's content.

The whole point of folders is that some of us didn't WANT to scroll so much. But if you like scrolling you can just keep using pages and not folders.

Or am I missing something?

Yeah, you are. How about just not having a folder limit so you can have the 12 items in your folder and the OP can have more if he doesn't mind? The whole point of folders is really organisation and file management as if you look at your computer you'll notice a lot of folders require scrolling.

 

[vitasenza]

That's actually what Spotlight Search is for. Many people including myself probably forget about this feature.

I use this feature for apps all the time. Mostly because I just can't remember where I stuck certain apps, which would be a problem for me with or without folders. So I just swipe to the search window and type part of the app I want to use and sure enough Spotlight has done it job finds my app.

 

[Savor]

Maybe because my iPhone 4 is still on 4.0 and vanilla, but don't have any delay with the folders. Still very smooth animations. There is 12 folders all in the second page and contains all my third party apps and a few of the default ones. All alphabetically. I always leave the fourth row clear of apps. Nomore than 12 in each folder, but eight of the folders have nomore than 6. No delay.

 

[Yumunum]

I don't get it why people always find something to whine about IOS. If you don't like, deal with it or use another phone with another OS. Personally I like IOS a lot, of course it has some imperfections, but what OS doesn't?

Dude, it's a pathetic bottleneck. There's no good reason for it.

And if no one complained about things, I think we'd have more problems.

 

[PeteLP]

Heres the solution and the answer you've been waiting for:

FolderEnhancer

Its available on the Cydia app store. To install, just go to www.jailbreakme.com and install Cydia in 30 seconds. Then go into Cydia and search for FolderEnhancer (one word)

Folders open instantly, you can have multiple pages, implementation is way better, and 16 apps per page in the folders. Also folders within folders.

I turned off the animation and made the background black, and the folder literally pops open before i lift my finger up.

I've been keeping a list of reasons to jailbreak, but because of how critical my phone is to me, I've been reluctant to make the move. Well, given the importance of this feature to me, and because of your persuasive post (30 seconds without tethering seemed just too easy to pass up), I took the plunge.

End result:

Folder Enhancer is just EXACTLY what the doctor ordered, and another feature I've REALLY been wanting (Landscape Lock, which has had similarly whiney threads) is absolutely perfect as well. Folder Enhancer is beautifully done BTW. I believe its just as intuitive and obvious as Apple would want it to be, yet totally flexible and capable.

I'm a very happy camper

Thanks

 

[DirtySocks85]

I don't understand why everytime someone is so unhappy with something that can be fixed with a simple jailbreak hack they always reply with "but I don't want to/shouldn't have to jailbreak". The entire point of jailbreaking is to free your device from the limitations that Apple has put on it, and allow you to do some tweaks that are a bit "outside of the box". It takes very little effort, and it doesn't harm anything.

So the way I see it, you have two options:
1. Stop complaining and just live with your phone and iOS the way it is.
or
2. Jailbreak and install tweaks like Infinifolders to make your iPhone do what you want it to.

Seems pretty simple to me.

 

[kuebby]

The folder limit forces me to keep organized. Most people would be hard pressed to come up with more than 12 apps in the same sufficiently descriptive category which they use on a regular basis.
When I go over 12, I just remove something that I'm not using.

Same. I started off with a 'Multimedia' folder that included visualizers, TV apps, and music/ambient apps, but of course that quickly filled up so I sub-divided into Movies, Music, Multimedia (now just visualizers, etc), and everything is much easier to find, and I can more easily find related apps I may have forgotten about.