by Marilyn | Feb 18, 2022 | App Library, customization, Home screen, iOS 15, iPadOS 15, Tip
Back in iOS 14, Apple added the App Library, which collects all the apps on your iPhone. With everything available in the App Library, iOS 14 was also able to provide the option of hiding Home screen pages, a boon for those of us with too many disorganized pages. In... 
by Marilyn | Nov 11, 2020 | Article, customization, Home screen, How-To, iOS 14, iPhone, productivity, widget
A significant new feature in iOS 14 is Home screen widgets, information-rich tiles that share space on a Home screen with app icons. iPhone users familiar with Google’s Android smartphone operating system have long clamored for widgets because they provide quick... 
by Marilyn | Oct 13, 2020 | App Library, customization, Home screen, iOS 14, iPhone, Tip
The App Library in iOS 14 ensures that you can find all the apps installed on your iPhone without having to hunt through Home screens. So if you already have a lot of Home screens that contain a random assemblage of apps, it might be easier to hide those screens than... 
by Marilyn | Sep 29, 2020 | App Library, Home screen, iOS 14, Messages, Siri, Solution, widget
Harvest season is here again, and Apple has deemed iOS 14 (along with iPadOS 14, watchOS 7, and tvOS 14) ready for the picking. Although the betas have been pretty stable and no major problems have appeared in the first few days, we still recommend waiting at least a... 
by Marilyn | Jul 13, 2020 | customization, Dock, Home screen, iOS, Tip
If you have lots of apps on your iPhone or iPad, rearranging their icons on your Home screens by dragging from page to page is tedious. Although the new App Library promised for iOS 14 later this year will help you find apps, rearranging them will still be a manual... 
by Marilyn | Jan 2, 2019 | App Switcher, Control Center, gesture, Home screen, iOS 12, iPad, productivity, Solution
When Apple released iOS 12 in September 2018, the main change for iPad users was a revamped collection of gestures similar to those used by the iPhone X. As it turned out, these new gestures were in preparation for the release of the new 11-inch and 12.9-inch iPad Pro...