Tip: Easier Method to Rearrange iPhone Apps Across Multiple Home Screens
Tip: Easier Method to Rearrange iPhone Apps Across Multiple Home Screens
You might have realized that as the number of iPhone apps have increased on your iPhone and spawned over multiple home screen, it has become more frustrating to arrange the iPhone apps across multiple home screens. In case you have not figured it out already, there is a very easy...
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Never thought of that lmao. But ya I dont really care.
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lol... yeh.. so you use the dock space as a temporary slot to skip only the dragging from one screent o another..... How about asking apple to put an app to arrange icons instead.....
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giggity
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Great tip. Thanks!
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I think I've actually got an even easier method.
This example is moving an icon to the right through screens full of icons.1) activate the wiggle and dance.
2) tap and hold the icon on it's left half (since you are moving it to the right) and hold.
3) drag the icon to the far right edge of the screen. The position of the icon needs to be between rows or you will kick icons off the next screen.
4) when the screen jumps, don't let go of the icon but quickly snap it left about a cm and then snap it to the right again and hold. This will cause the screen to go to the next screen without kicking icons off.
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this may be the easiest method for moving lots of apps around.
go to last screen and empty your quicklaunch apps to a new screen.
go back and drag up to 4 apps to the quicklaunch. go to the desired screen and push them onto in. repeat as needed.
finally, go back to the screen where you dumped your quicklaunch apps and move them back to the quicklaunch bar.
done. much easier than one app/page at a time...
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Hey Richard,
You are spot on if one wants to move multiple apps.
I have added a note at the end of the post so other readers can refer to your tip as well.
Thanks
cheers!
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I didn't find RichardK's subsequent method, but I do use the same method Chuckee presented. (Using the Quicklaunch bar for faster moving.)
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I do this also, I have a 5-icon dock and I just take the one of the bottom icons and drag it to the last page, and add the newly download or updated app to the dock and just go to one of the pages I will add it to and then drag it to its spot. Its easy and fast. Heres what my phone looks like....
Click on the picture to view it larger.
http://addanny.deviantart.com/art/myPhone-84470993 -
dude...I've been doing both of those since 1.1.4
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I'm running Firmware 2.1 and had an odd thing happen. I had seven pages of icons in the order I wanted, but then I did SOMETHING and poof!!, my icons were all rearranged. Has anyone else experienced multiple icon shifting like this?
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I always keep one spot open on each home page (except for the first, which can be filled). That way when I add new apps or update existing ones, they fill in the gaps rather than displacing ones in my current arrangement. Then I can have a little extra space to work with, and starting from the last home page, I can work my way back to the first until I get things just the way I want them. As an alternative I'll move all the new apps to the last page (since they are often untested anyway), then apps resume their original positions.
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yeah I had the same thing when I tried loading different skins with winterboard, but now everytime I arrange the icons and reboot the springboard it re-arrange them again :(
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I hope Apple will realize that a 5-icon dock is much more reasonable than a 4-icon dock. (Is a 5-icon dock only available for a jail-broken iPhone? If so, it's a pity.)
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And the "categories" app is also a wonderful way to organize the apps on the iPhone. Again, I hope Apple will provide this tool.
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I need an app that tells you which apps I'm not using so I can get rid of them!
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Thanks, Richard. You're a smart guy. I downloaded the iPhone update today (September 12, 2010) and was left with a blank page between apps. You solved it. Thanks again.
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Another tip is to create a folder for apps you want to move and move a number of them at once.
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Riachrd:I'm a newbie with a 3Gs. Would you mind giving me the 'idiots guide' to what you describe, I'd like to clean up my icons to manage them more efficiently? Thanks.
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Thank you that worked great
