App Library: I hate it

[KennyJr]

Not sure I understand the problem. I have over 100 apps spread over five pages. When I swipe to the last page, The App Library, then tap the top, it shows all my apps w/ icons in alphabetical order. It's a souped up back-of-the-book index. It's cool.

It just occurred to me though that some people don't go right to the alphabetical listing. Instead they dwell on those little category squares that I've always ignored. Hmm .. I just tapped on the 'utilities' square and 47 apps that could be roughly defined as utilities showed up. Hmm again .. I can actually see where this layout Could be good for certain types of thinking styles.

Maybe the next iPadOS update will provide this feature in my iPad Pro. That would be good - really good.

In the mean time, each of my five pages of apps is roughly a category. It works well enough for my thinking style. And when it doesn't, there's always that alphabetical listing.

 

[dk001]

I grew up with DOS/CP-M and later got into Windows 3.1. NOW THAT was a great OS. (or rather, Desktop Environment). It was the best organized with a Program Manager and groups, and icons in those groups by subject, much like how iOS does folders. When Windows 95 came along, people DESPISED the Start Menu. It might have become more beloved during XP's heyday (which I missed out on, as I hated XP and stuck with Windows 98 SE for a considerable time) but in that launch it angered so many. The Start Menu is admittedly an inferior way to find apps. What was once a simple glance in Program Manager followed by a single double-click (especially in tiled view) of a program in the proper group, is now a nested mess. Windows 95's implemetation was too easy to mess up. Want to play the iconic Solitaire? that's a click of Start, mouse over to Programs, then Accessories, Games, Solitaire--that is, unless you mouse happens to hover just enough outside the menu to dismiss it! Then you start over. I hated it, too. Which was why I hoped Windows 8 would bring a modern take on Program Manager back, but it never came to pass. People wanted their Start Menu back, but still hated to use it, so now Windows 10 is just as bad as Windows 95 was, with the desktop so littered with icons and redundant website icons for favorite sites (my Grandmother has Edge icons all littered for each website she visits--she's 94 and can't understand how to enter a URL or use 'the Google' and the worst part is I had to make those redundant icons for her--she certainly would never figure it out) that the wallpaper isn't even visible. At least pinning to taskbar is cleaner. I dunno, I just hate clutter.

A desktop littered with icons all over the place brings images of the workstation from Jurassic Park that Dennis Nedry had

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Dual monitors with icons all over and way too much in the toolbars 👍

 

[KennyJr]

I grew up with DOS/CP-M and later got into Windows 3.1. NOW THAT was a great OS. (or rather, Desktop Environment). It was the best organized with a Program Manager and groups, and icons in those groups by subject, much like how iOS does folders. When Windows 95 came along, people DESPISED the Start Menu. It might have become more beloved during XP's heyday (which I missed out on, as I hated XP and stuck with Windows 98 SE for a considerable time) but in that launch it angered so many. The Start Menu is admittedly an inferior way to find apps. What was once a simple glance in Program Manager followed by a single double-click (especially in tiled view) of a program in the proper group, is now a nested mess. Windows 95's implemetation was too easy to mess up. Want to play the iconic Solitaire? that's a click of Start, mouse over to Programs, then Accessories, Games, Solitaire--that is, unless you mouse happens to hover just enough outside the menu to dismiss it! Then you start over. I hated it, too. Which was why I hoped Windows 8 would bring a modern take on Program Manager back, but it never came to pass. People wanted their Start Menu back, but still hated to use it, so now Windows 10 is just as bad as Windows 95 was, with the desktop so littered with icons and redundant website icons for favorite sites (my Grandmother has Edge icons all littered for each website she visits--she's 94 and can't understand how to enter a URL or use 'the Google' and the worst part is I had to make those redundant icons for her--she certainly would never figure it out) that the wallpaper isn't even visible. At least pinning to taskbar is cleaner. I dunno, I just hate clutter.

A desktop littered with icons all over the place brings images of the workstation from Jurassic Park that Dennis Nedry had

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Windows 3.1 was good. You had to be pretty knowledgeable to use it but it would do what you asked it to do as long as you asked correctly. Win 95 came along offering a desktop computer that could be used simply as a tool (no need to be heavily computer knowledgeable). Win 95 and Microsoft's subsequent OSs finally drove me away and over to Apple - a move I've never regretted. Where I worked we continued to use Win 3.1 but when a major project came up Apple Lisas were brought in (leased). We needed a very good project management program for what we were doing and Apple provided that.

 

[nickdalzell1]

My first introduction to Apple period was in elementary school through early middle school. It's almost like schools were their primary customer as you couldn't go into any computer lab that wasn't full to the brim with Apple //e's or IIgs's. That and all that MECC software such as the iconic Oregon Trail, Jenny's Journeys, Spell-A-Vator, Number Munchers, and Odell Lake, to name but a few!

The bootup sound (and disk drive error sound) is permenantly burned into my memory.

 

[dk001]

My first introduction to Apple period was in elementary school through early middle school. It's almost like schools were their primary customer as you couldn't go into any computer lab that wasn't full to the brim with Apple //e's or IIgs's. That and all that MECC software such as the iconic Oregon Trail, Jenny's Journeys, Spell-A-Vator, Number Munchers, and Odell Lake, to name but a few!

The bootup sound (and disk drive error sound) is permenantly burned into my memory.

Walking into a classroom and seeing a rainbow.

 

[nickdalzell1]

Well, the Apple logo sure. But I will admit, the way the bite out mark fit the 'a' from 'Apple' back then made far more sense than it does today.

 

[827538]

I don't hate it but I also think it's pointless and wouldn't mind if they removed it.

 

[BigPotatoLobbyist]

I really don’t get this “feature.” It’s just another Home Screen with my apps organized far more haphazardly than my own folders. Like Mail goes with banking apps? Google translate, stocks, and kindle all go together? Really? This is supposed to help me?

And yes, I know people will say “just don’t use it,” but that’s not the point. You can turn off Siri, screen time, Touch/Face ID, etc. We should be able to turn this off too.

God yes. My biggest complaint about iOS, without hesitation. Was it seriously that difficult to resist the urge to sugarcoat things with bs "AI" suggestion folders and such? I mean, just a basic list-like interface of apps as is available on the Apple Watch. So I can keep my home screen clean. It's stuff like this that blows my mind about the world's largest co lol

 

[BugeyeSTI]

Not sure I understand the problem. I have over 100 apps spread over five pages. When I swipe to the last page, The App Library, then tap the top, it shows all my apps w/ icons in alphabetical order. It's a souped up back-of-the-book index. It's cool.

It just occurred to me though that some people don't go right to the alphabetical listing. Instead they dwell on those little category squares that I've always ignored. Hmm .. I just tapped on the 'utilities' square and 47 apps that could be roughly defined as utilities showed up. Hmm again .. I can actually see where this layout Could be good for certain types of thinking styles.

Maybe the next iPadOS update will provide this feature in my iPad Pro. That would be good - really good.

In the mean time, each of my five pages of apps is roughly a category. It works well enough for my thinking style. And when it doesn't, there's always that alphabetical listing.

This is exactly how I use the App Library... Alphabetical listing works fine for me

 

[dk001]

This is exactly how I use the App Library... Alphabetical listing works fine for me

Be nice if you could default that view...

 

[BugeyeSTI]

Be nice if you could default that view...

That would be a nice option..