Nope. Can’t change a single bit of it.
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App Library: I hate it
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What do you love?
- The fact you can’t re-order items?
- The fact you can’t re-name the categories?
- The fact you don’t know what’s in the category until you open it?
- The fact you can’t hide the Library?
- Some other great feature?
What's this App Library everyone is talking about? My home screen looks the same as it did before the update. Apart from the Widgets page (to the left of the main Home page) looking like crap due to missing and/or redesigned widgets, everything else is unchanged.
I take it the App Library is something akin to Android's all apps list. But how do you get to it?
I take it the App Library is something akin to Android's all apps list. But how do you get to it?
OMG, that's so ugly and useless. Now that I've seen it, I cannot unsee it.
Welcome to the club
I like it a lot. I have hidden all but 1 screen and use Siri App suggestion widget.
May I ask: does the iOS 14 update preserve the existing home screen layouts? I took me some considerable time to get it just so!
It's for people who don't create and use folders. Seems like when it comes to typical consumers there are quite a few of those.
There aren't really options related to it. It's basically just there.
There are regular home screens and folders for that. The App Library doesn't appear to be there for those purposes.
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Yes, your existing home screens with apps and folders are still there essentially as they were before.
The App Library really is an unnecessary overkill for those of us who keep their phone tidy... I've like 30 apps installed on 2 screens. And only one on the iPad.
@madeirabhoy Exactly my thoughts... I think they hired some people from google to redesign the UI. It literally looks like Android now.
@madeirabhoy Exactly my thoughts... I think they hired some people from google to redesign the UI. It literally looks like Android now.
I have a lot of apps on my iPhone. I have six home screens and muscle memory means I know where they all are. App Library comes and messes them all up, with random categories created that can’t be changed.
No, thanks. I cannot see that I’m ever going to use this, so I wish I could just disable it. But you can’t, because, Apple.
It might be useful for new users or Android-transplants. but for those who’ve had iPhones for years? Nah.
No, thanks. I cannot see that I’m ever going to use this, so I wish I could just disable it. But you can’t, because, Apple.
It might be useful for new users or Android-transplants. but for those who’ve had iPhones for years? Nah.
my first thoughts were that it was disappointing that ipadOS has hardly any of the changes that iOS has, in fact I struggle to notice my ipad's OS has changed to 14, but in this case im really glad. I recently went through a cull on my ipad, realizing that most of the apps on it I had on my phone and would be unlikely to pic up my ipad first for. so I set a target of one page of apps maximum. much cleaner.
the idea of having one page of apps followed by an apps library of the same apps but just in random folders is urgh… lets hope apple don't do it.
Same it’s terrible my ocd I have one page with everything in the same place and in folders I don’t need widgets or App Library
The fact I don’t need to care about anything of that. If I did, I most likely would use folders instead.
I would love to just have a list of apps in an alphabetical order similar to the way Windows Mobile had back in the day. That would be more useful, in my opinion, that the buckets of apps listed by function.
It's a brand new feature. All the things you listed are valid and I'll bet they will eventually roll out updates implementing them. They all seem like logical evolution of the concept. Maybe give it a little time.
And that in a nutshell is often the problem of minimum valuable product philosophy from a user perspective.
Often it lacks even the most basic functionality (on/off, renaming, moving...) which is IMO not fancy extra features, but core functionalities.
hope it won’t take long/forever for those basics to appear...
Often it lacks even the most basic functionality (on/off, renaming, moving...) which is IMO not fancy extra features, but core functionalities.
hope it won’t take long/forever for those basics to appear...
I would think that eventually it's going to start showing you different things at different times with Siri Suggestions based on the Recently Added stack.
Don't care for it either, other than being able to get rid of everything on the home screen. Where they're putting a lot of apps is really weird - Wallet and Safari under Utilities, Messages and Phone under Social, Camera under Creativity, Maps under Travel. That's not how people think.
Don't care for it either, other than being able to get rid of everything on the home screen. Where they're putting a lot of apps is really weird - Wallet and Safari under Utilities, Messages and Phone under Social, Camera under Creativity, Maps under Travel. That's not how people think.
I like the idea of the App Library. I used to back and forth between Samsung and Apple and I always loved the App drawer. Having uncluttered home screens is great. But I’d rather have the alphabetical list and the ability to sort it with a few filters rather than these somewhat arbitrarily grouped folders that only make half-sense. I honestly don’t know why Apple did this. It feels a bit hand-holdy to me.
I think it's a mediocre solution to the problem, some people might like it but it's too "locked" for the people that were asking for it for years