Is there a way to disable the App Library, so that I don’t have to see it at all? I don’t have many apps, don’t need them categorized, and don’t need to search them, so I’d prefer to just turn it off altogether so that I don’t see it if I happen to swipe right too many times. Thanks!
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iPhone X
LionDove wrote:
iPhone should provide the feature to disable? Can Apply tell us why App Library is mandatory?? We know how to group them? Don’t we
At this point, having the App Library on your phone may be mandatory as you put it, however, using the App Library is a choice that the user makes. You don’t have to use it.
Lawrence Finch wrote:
The answer is clearly to go back to using a basic flip phone. The App Library (and it’s Android equivalent, the App Drawer) are on all smartphones, so the only option is a dumb phone.
My brother has a phone that is not quite a dumb phone. It's a flip phone with apps. He still asks me how to get rid of the ones he doesn't use. And, periodically, still complains about the fact that the Nokia phone he had more than a decade ago had Snake on it.
DakotaKraus wrote:
I hope that sometime soon that Apple can get rid of this library
Apple doesn't read here for suggestions. If you want them to know your thoughts, use the feedback page:
You actually used it and now you hate it? Alas, it has grown quite popular and has been added to iPadOS 15 so I don't think it is going anywhere. Oddly enough several people in ASC had been using their phones for a year and had no idea the Apple Library even existed. They accidentally deleted an app and were able to access it in App Library. So don't go to the last page and you will never see it.
anonanoniamanon wrote:
The ability to turn off App Library in Settings shouldn't add a bit of complexity to the home scrolling. If the IOS code is written correctly, the displayed windows are something like a simple list of class instances with associated views/behaviors. The size of the list doesn't affect the display code. Optionally deleting the Apps Library in Settings, where all such actions take place, merely changes the list length, (or a functional mapping), requiring no special-casing in the window display-scroll code. That's just a simple matter of common software design craft.
Well, deggie, wonderful though they are, can't do anything to make what you want happen. Tell Apple:
You, like many others here, are wasting your time thinking that Apple will see or act on your statements here. This is a user to user support forum and Apple does not participate here. If you wish for Apple to see your disagreement with their design and/or software choices, you need to provide them feedback at their feedback link, Feedback - iPhone - Apple
Crizz85 wrote:
I am shocked by the tone Apple uses against its users about this.
No one here works for Apple. We are just users like yourself. We are not Apple employees. We cannot issue internal feedback.
Please use the Feedback link provided multiple times in the thread you replied to, to tell Apple about the feature directly.
No one is saying there should not be a button to disable it. We are just asking why you cannot ignore it like you do for tons of other features on your device without a disable option, but that you never use? Why is this particular feature so offensive to you as to require a disable option when you can totally ignore it and never use it at all. If you can articulate that need to Apple through their feedback link, then they may be more persuaded to offer a disable button.
Tell Apple: https://www.apple.com/feedback/
Yes, you can. Edit your home screen (eg. long press on one app icon), then press and hold the dots at the bottom of the page. You can activate all of you app pages 🙂 Voila
IdrisSeabright wrote:
Be sure to let Apple know you'd like to see that. They don't read here for suggestions.
Product Feedback - Apple
Thanks, I surely will.
Let Apple know.
Jskirkjr wrote:
Absolutely get rid of the **** thing
just repetitive...
Cursing at us, your fellow users accomplishes nothing useful.
Tell Apple:
JCherewick71 wrote:
I’d really love for Apple to provide a way for users to disable the App Library in the next IOS update
Then you should tell Apple:
As much as I agree with you, as everyone here points out, you need to suggest it to them. The more suggestions the more likely they will finally fix it.
That’s why the complaint is because you cannot avoid swiping and getting it
Turn off / disable App Library in iOS 14
