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Last week, I talked about setting up Back Tap on your iPhone and got a lot of good feedback. So this week, I’m going to tell you about another feature of Apple’s newest iPhone operating system, iOS 14, that I’ve come to love.
I’m the kind of iPhone user who has a lot of pages full of apps. As a reviewer, I tend to load apps for all kinds of gadgets.
It has long been a feature of iOS that you can launch apps by searching for them instead of swiping through screen after screen of icons. Just touch the screen and pull down to reveal the search bar, type in the first few letters of the app and you’ll see it appear.
Now iOS 14 has improved on app searching by creating an App Library, a searchable A-to-Z listing of all your installed apps.
This is the same search function I used to use, but now all of the apps are visible in a scrollable list if I want to see them.
So how is it better?
iOS now lets you hide entire screens of apps. Heck, you can hide all of them and just have a blank screen when you unlock your phone.
Just touch and hold on your screen just above the dock until all the apps start jiggling.
Then touch the group of dots that represent your screens of apps. You’ll then be taken to an Edit Pages screen showing all your iPhone’s app screens with a check mark under each screen.
Touch each check mark to make it disappear. That screen will be hidden from your view, but the apps will still be on your phone, and you can launch them from the App Library.
If you later decide you’d like your app pages back, just get back into jiggle mode (yes, that’s the Apple term for it), and touch the empty circles under your app pages to put the check mark back to get your screens back.
I’ve decided to go with one main screen of apps and hide all the other screens. The rest of my apps live in the App Library.
If you’d like to see screenshots and instructions, go to macrumors.com/how-to/hide-home-screen-app-pages-iphone/.
If there are other phone features (iPhone or Android), you’d like me to write about, send me an email at jrossman@dallasnews.com.
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Jim Rossman writes for The Dallas Morning News. He may be reached at jrossman@dallasnews.com.
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