iPhone 17 Pro Max Will you ever be able to turn off the apps from AutoArranging?

[ocman57]

I switched to Iphone about 3 years ago and I love the fact that it just works all the time, BUT, the fact that I can't arrange the apps is so annoying, I'm tempted to switch back to Samsung.

I currently have the 13 promax and was going to pre-order the 17 Pro today, but I emailed myself some pics (jpg) from a friend and tried to open and save them on my Iphone and was unable to save those attached pics, they're winmail.dat. It's so silly that these 2 things are hard to do on an Iphone.

My question is, can anyone arrange the apps on their Iphone 16 Pro/ProMax or is this something we are going to have to live with forever?

Peace

 

[Puonti]

You can manually arrange the icons on your home screen, within a system-defined grid pattern. Starting with iOS 26 you can leave empty grid locations and rows between icons. You can't have two icons in the same grid location; doing so will push other icons aside or place the icons inside a folder.

 

[ocman57]

You can manually arrange the icons on your home screen, within a system-defined grid pattern. Starting with iOS 26 you can leave empty grid locations and rows between icons. You can't have two icons in the same grid location; doing so will push other icons aside or place the icons inside a folder.

I'm talking about moving any app to another location without another app being moved by autoarrange...In other words you can't organize 3, 4, or 5 pages of apps into a certain order and keep it from page to page.

 

[aldo82]

Rearranging apps on the Home Screen is terrible and when Apple introduced being able to leave blank spaces in the last version I was amazed they didn’t improve this, if anything it got worse. I guess no one at Apple ever rearranges their Home Screen because if they did they would know how terrible the UI is for doing so

 

[Puonti]

@ocman57 It's likely you're not describing your problem clearly enough. Based on how I understand your description of your goal you can do that in iOS 26.

 

[eoblaed]

@ocman57 It's likely you're not describing your problem clearly enough. Based on how I understand your description of your goal you can do that in iOS 26.

This.

Also, I'm fascinated (non-ironically) that the UX for app arranging is a powerful enough motivator to get someone to consider switching to a different platform. Then again, I really only have one page of apps (the 'main' page I keep almost empty; the second page is my one page of apps). Most apps I launch via spotlight, so arrangement isn't something I engage in once I have the main and second pages set up. So, I, admittedly, may not be the typical user

For me, my choice of iPhone vs Android is based on what the device can do for me, how good it is at doing those things, and app arrangement really has nothing to do with that.

 

[ocman57]

Why can't it be super easy like the way Samsung has been doing it for the last 10 years...

 

[ocman57]

This.

Also, I'm fascinated (non-ironically) that the UX for app arranging is a powerful enough motivator to get someone to consider switching to a different platform. Then again, I really only have one page of apps (the 'main' page I keep almost empty; the second page is my one page of apps). Most apps I launch via spotlight, so arrangement isn't something I engage in once I have the main and second pages set up. So, I, admittedly, may not be the typical user

For me, my choice of iPhone vs Android is based on what the device can do for me, how good it is at doing those things, and app arrangement really has nothing to do with that.

@ocman57 It's likely you're not describing your problem clearly enough. Based on how I understand your description of your goal you can do that in iOS 26.

I'm on an Iphone 13 ProMax and only use IOS 18.x.

 

[Puonti]

I'm on an Iphone 13 ProMax and only use IOS 18.x.

My question is, can anyone arrange the apps on their Iphone 16 Pro/ProMax or is this something we are going to have to live with forever?

This was your question, and to the best of my understanding of your description of your issue, it's been answered. I can arrange the icons on my iPhone 16 Pro Max as you describe, on iOS 26.

Up to you of course how you proceed from here. Best of luck!