How To Move Icons on Iphone.Have you bought your first iPhone a few days ago and would like to learn how to customize it? Have you messed around a lot with the icons on the home screen of your “iPhone by” and now would you like to bring them back in the order in which they were initially set up? I have the answers for you.
Read the short guide that I am about to offer you and in no time you will learn how to move iPhone icons in such a way as to organize and rearrange all the apps on the home screen, that is, on the main screen of your smartphone. You can also create folders to group applications and games of a certain genre or change the icons in the iOS Dock bar.
I assure you that these are really simple operations, indeed I bet that after reading the tutorial you will wonder how you did not get there sooner! The information below is valid for all iPhone models and for all the most recent versions of iOS (the operating system of Apple smartphones).
How To Move Icons on Iphone
Index
- Move icons to iPhone
- Create folders on iPhone
- Arrange the iPhone icons in alphabetical order
- Hide iPhone icons
Move icons to iPhone;How To Move Icons on Iphone;Complete Guide
Let’s start with the simplest things, namely how to move iPhone icons on the phone home screen. To perform this operation, all you have to do is keep your finger pressed for about two seconds on any of the icons on the home screen of the phone and select the option to change the Home screen from the menu that is proposed to you or, alternatively , wait for all the apps to start “dancing”. On iOS 14 and later you can also do a long tap in a point without icons on the Home screen.
At this point, you can move the app icons to any point on the home screen simply by keeping your finger pressed on them and dragging them to the desired position. To bring the icons from one page to another on the home screen, just push them towards the left or right corner of the screen, while to save the changes just press the Home button (the one located under the iPhone display). You can also select multiple icons at once by pressing on the secondary icons you want to move (with another finger) while continuing to hold down on the one you selected first.
If you then want to change the icons in the Dock bar (the semi-transparent bar located at the bottom of the screen), you must first drag the ones you want to replace out of it and then bring the icons to add to it to the bar. You cannot go beyond the four icons provided by default.
Create folders on iPhone.
As mentioned at the opening of the post, it is possible not only to move the icons present on the iPhone home screen but also to organize them in thematic folders. How? I’ll explain it to you right away.
Dragging the icon of an app to the icon of another app instead creates a folder in which you can group all the applications or games of a certain type (e.g. social applications, puzzle games, etc.). Once the folders have been created, to add new icons to them, simply drag the apps or games into them with your finger.
Folders can be made up of several “pages” of icons and can be moved in turn like the icons of individual applications, just follow the procedure we saw together before. In case you change your mind, to delete a folder created previously on the iOS home screen, just “empty” it by moving all the icons contained in it on the main screen of the iPhone.
On iOS 14 and later there is an App Library (on the last page of the Home screen) which automatically groups all the apps on the iPhone into folders.
You can also delete an icon from the Home screen and display it only in the App Library, by performing a long tap on it and selecting the items Remove app and move to the app library from the menu that opens. Conversely, you can extract an icon from the App Library by long tapping it and selecting the Add to Home item from the menu that opens.
Arrange the iPhone icons in alphabetical order
Would you like to move iPhone icons to their original position, restoring what was the order of the apps on the home screen when you bought the phone? Nothing easier. Go to the Settings of your “iPhone by”, select the item General> Restore from the menu that opens and press first on the button Restore Home layout and then on Restore screen. Home to complete the operation.
Of course, rest assured, this procedure only reorders the springboard icons and does not delete any apps. The icons of applications downloaded from the App Store are arranged in alphabetical order.
Hide iPhone icons
Would you like to hide the app icons on the iPhone home screen? This can also be done, albeit with some limitations. By going to the iOS settings and activating the restrictions of the Screen time mode , you can make sure that the icons of some apps do not appear on the home screen of your “iPhone by”, but unfortunately you cannot select the individual applications to hide: you can select only groups of apps based on their category or the minimum age of the audience they are intended for (e.g. you can hide apps dedicated to social networks or those only for adults). I told you about it in great detail in my tutorial on how to hide iPhone apps.
