Clean up iPhone icons

I have a 3G iPhone with lots of apps.

Trouble is, there are gaps all over the place. Is there an easy way of cleaning up all the icons, so they all move back and fill empty spaces on previous app pages, so all the free space is on the end pages?

iPhone OS 3.0

Posted on Jun 18, 2009 1:50 AM

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Jun 18, 2009 1:59 AM in response to ripster227

There's no one-button 'clean up' option. You have to move them individually. If you know how, stop reading here 🙂. If not:

Press and hold an app icon until the icons start shimmering. You can then drag an icon around the screen, or drag it to the next screen by dragging it off the left or right edge. Press the home key when you're done

Jun 18, 2009 6:56 AM in response to ripster227

Go to a blank page and move the 4 icons off the bottom bar to the blank page. Return to a page from which you want to move icons, move up to 4 icons to the bottom bar, change to destination page for the icons and move them from the bottom bar to the page. Repeat as needed. When all done, go to the page where you temporarily stored the 4 original icons from the bottom bar and return the 4 icons to the bottom bar.

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