Why only 148 spaces for apps? Why not more?

There are very few people in your situation (so far), because to get a handle on all those apps takes quite a bit of work... especially if you need to rearrange them. Apple bets that most people use two or three screens—tops—to store all their apps.

You could do as I do and simply delete the apps you don't use much (if ever). I'm pretty sure you don't need all 148 of those apps.

 

Do you honestly use 148 apps?

 

I have sent this request to Apple ever since iPhone 2.0 and the App Store, I think an Applications icon that opens a list of all the Apps would be great.

To the topic, I think that 148 Apps is way to much. Sure there are some really good ones, but not enough to have at least 148 on the device at once.

 

That is just too much. I think there is really only a tiny few who uses the entire pages.

 

holy hannah! how do you have 148 apps on your ipod?!? i dont even get that much. more so i dont even use half of it

 

I've ran into an article about an apps that has a function like a folder so you can rearrange apps & save space. So there's a possibility. Go google.

 

it's called stacks I think and I believe it might be on cydia

I think there is also one called categories

 

I wish apple would add Folders, I only have a few apps, but i would rather 1 main screen with a folder for all my apps, so i can put them in there for when i want them

 

There aren't even 74 good apps.

I couldn't have my iphone so full of stuff like that, lol.

 

I have 5 screens and 58 apps that I use regularly. I have another 20 or so apps in iTunes but aren't 'active' but I could use them from time to time. Management is the key.

 

Sorry, I seriously doubt that you use every single one of your 148 applications on a regular basis...

 

Folders would be SOOOO USEFUL as I too have filled up my ipod's screens.

 

For such a great UI, the lack of folders or at least tabs is astounding

I also have lots of apps, almost all the pages full. I travel a lot, so my iPhone 3G is stuffed with games to while away long airplane rides when I'm too tired to read a book. I have several navigation utilities that get me where I need to go, and lots of e-book readers, several news aggregators, and some technical utilities I find useful in my work. So yes, some of us do use the full complement of apps-space on our iPhones, and some of us really could honestly use a better organizing system, because the multi-page way of doing things, with no way of keeping things organized or categorized, is simply insane, coming from a company with such stellar UI props as Apple. And yes, I could probably use even more apps space as time goes on. And no, I don't use every app every day. Fortunately, I don't have ten-hour flights every day, but sometimes I'll have three or four in a week.

So my message to you cranky old coots who say "Oh, pshaw" between hawks at the spittoon to the notion of more than six apps on an iPhone: your usage isn't the same as mine, and mind the judgmentalism please.

 

yes but would you buy them?

 

The key here is once in a while. Just manage the apps from iTunes.

 

I'd also like to be able to delete most of the ones on the first page, I don't use half of them, especially the stocks, clock(it shows my time at the top of the screen and I can figure out other time zones in the USA easily) and Youtube, so why are they stuck there and why not allow us to delete them? Oh well..

 

You can only remove a small amount of Apple apps by going to settings>general>restrictions but yes, there should be more room.

 

jailbreak and get folders or stacks

 

Everyone's mentioned good ideas.

Apple could easily implement this. How about this approach? Extend the dot homescreen indicator concept to the right side for indicating which vertical homescreen you are currently on. Just flick up or down to navigate vertically through the homescreens just like we do now for horizontal navigation.

(You'll probably have to view the full mockup to see the dots)

 

wow man, it's like spaces...

 

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