Turn off / disable App Library in iOS 14

Yeah, but at least a toggle for that stupid App Library won't be bad. It is useless for many people like me, I always have very limited number of Apps and home screen, now I have an extra thing to swipe to the right that doesn't do anything for me!

Tell Apple that. Telling each other in a user to user only forum, which Apple does NOT participate in is pointless.

Use the feedback link to whine and moan all you want --> https://www.apple.com/feedback/iphone.html

Using that link is the ONLY way your voices will be heard by Apple. They won't respond to you. But they will read what you write.

It’s not about the new App Library feature itself to be honest. But its location in UI makes it so irritating. Really hard to ignore something you don’t need popping into you eyes bunch of times every day instead of something you’re looking for.

Users having one or two application pages on their iPhone screens probably not even understand the issue. They just don’t go there. Also there is no reason to complain about widget screen — there is no need to swipe pages left when you’re directly heading to a specific page.

However, going to the last (the rightmost) page after unblocking iPhone you swipe harder to jump over other pages. And now instead of the desired application page you land on App Library page. And this happens many times a day.

That’s why widget page don’t need to be hidden — it’s hidden already, but App Library page needs configuration option to hide it.

By the way, I have sent my feature requests to Apple. I also need widgets to show the next alarm as it used to be before. Neither new Calendar nor Clock widgets show alarms.

Apple isn't here on this user to user ONLY forum. Telling other users to rid a feature will get you NOTHING.

You can provide feedback if this "monstrosity" (LOL) feature is that horrible for you, by using this link --> Feedback - iPhone - Apple

ProCommNJ wrote:

This is trash. I can’t get rid of this App Library ??? Next update needs to give us the ability to disable it. I’m already organized.

And the App Library will have no (zero, nada) effect on your current organization. Everything will stay exactly where it is.

ssc19180 wrote:

I don’t think you can. I really want to disable it but can’t seem to find a way to do it

You can’t disable it. You can read through this entire thread to see what others suggest and that would be to send Apple feedback about it.

I never get it.

Why do they 'force' these things upon the users?

Why?

You cannot organize it!

You cannot hide it!

It is really ugly!

It has no use (to my opinion)!

Also not all 'same things' are placed in the same folder!

Why does Apple force this upon us?

I don't get it.

I really want to turn this off.

RvanNoije wrote:

Why does Apple force this upon us?

I don't get it.

I really want to turn this off.

Why? Because Apple has always worked on the assumption that they know what users need better than the users do. They've actually gotten a bit more responsive in recent years.

Submit your feedback to Apple here:

Product Feedback - Apple

This is surprisingly bad experience, it expose applications you might not want to show upfront on that page. And worse if all is that there is no way to control their appearance on this screen. Annoying.

fall_out_boy wrote:

I hate the new App library too. I have few apps that I already have neatly organized into 3 or 4 pages.

The App Library doesn't change that.

I don't need Apple to organize my Apps for me. I wish this could be disabled.

Tell Apple using the feedback link given above.

IdrisSeabright wrote:

The App Library doesn't change that.

Tell Apple using the feedback link given above.

Thanks and yes, but it does give me an extra page that I don't need and want and would rather turn off.

Please could you clarify the link

Thanks

Then let Apple know what you think. We're just users here.

Feedback goes here --> https://www.apple.com/feedback/iphone.html

Ps: Not one of my hundreds of apps fell out of their assigned folder and moved to the App Library on either of our iPhones.

There is NOTHING TO SOLVE. The question was can you disable App Library. The answer is NO. Thus question asked and correctly answered. Anything else in this thread is just people whining as though they are somehow entitled to do whatever they want with iOS, which no one owns other than Apple.

If you don't like the answer, use the feedback link provided multiple times throughout this thread. Of if you're really that upset about something you don't even have to use, move to Android or some other platform. But if you do, be prepared for them to introduce some feature on Android you also don't like and have no control over. Your choice of course.

Demo wrote:

jadondfdfdfdf wrote:

I totally agree the App Library is useless and ugly and annoying

How in the world can something be ugly and annoying that you can’t even see unless you knowingly swipe to the last screen to see it? That’s what I just can’t figure out.

That makes at least two of us. It's really remarkable how something someone doesn't need to use or ever see elicits such irrational negativity.

Please make this library optional. Don’t patronize your customers. I want my Home Screen as I want. I don’t want people seeing which app I downloaded or which one I use the most. This is privacy invasion. What make this huge squares? Why not group then just like in the Home Screen then, where you can make more discrete the apps? And to finish, the categories are not even right, the grouping is a mess (That’s why you guys created the option to make groups in the Home Screen, so we can group them as we like, not as you think they should be grouped)

Stop forcing this personal features on us.