Apps in alphabetized order

Trekingpan wrote:

Be very careful. The reset really is a full reset to the home screens. If you made any , it removes them! This is a basic function that should be there by default. Apple reset puts their priorities first, then alphabetical and removes any grips you made.

But the OP WANTS to remove any changes! They want all of the apps in alphabetical order, which by definition removes any manual changes.

My mistake. Not from Apple.

I am not asking you to imagine.

I trying to come up with a way that I am I know many people like to be organized verses the haphazard, in my opinion, is the default.

No need for anyone here to be indigent in their posts. Diversity in thought necessitates diversity in options. One way does not and should not fit all. This is not Brave New World, 1984, Fahrenheit 451 or worse yet, Animal Farm.

Options, options that have been around for decades in less powerful systems. It is there in the backend, now to place it into the GUI.

“If that is not sufficient get a Samsung if this is a very important feature to you.”

Wow! That’s aggressive! [I’m no snow flake but I don’t like rude in the vein of of “If you don’t like it here, go back to your country/etc.].

It looks like that answer and tone drove the “OP” out of town. Sad.

Anyway, I have a related question and I hope someone will be able to answer with substance and, definitely, some

empathy.

Often times, while browsing, etc. an app fires up that I have turned off the cellular network for. I go to Settings > Cellular to turn Cellular on for that app. Here’s where the prob is: the long list of apps (140) are all jumbled up and not listed alphabetically. I have no idea what “user experience” Apple is targeting. It’s not consistent either because the apps in Privacy/Location are all ordered alphabetically!

Thank you for the speedy and helpful response. The reset ordered them

all alphabetically. Not a very elegant or functionally smart fix but will do for now.

I‘m not a good judge of demeanor or manners - in person or, worse, online and am won’t to judge at all. I said what I felt, right or wrong.

As for the feature, I pondered on the design principles wearing a product manager’s hat. No doubt Apple UI designers, architects, business process analysts, (bean counters and anthropologists too?) looked at it intensely and made a call to do it this way. WHO amongst them won the debate I can’t say but this user is none the better. All that said, there is nothing on this question by Apple. That silence is consistent.

Again, thanks for your helpful tip.

The type of hostile responses I have seen, does little to invite conversation or expansion of a customer base. By providing options that a competitive OS has, remove objections from switching and wins more customers.

i have a Mac and iPad. I have been very disappointed by the lack of features I used to have on android. I regret the switch.

Wow: buy a different phone for one thousand dollars because a simple app sort per screen cannot be put into the backlog for future feature development. We are not talking hardware redesign here. We are talking about a simple re sort for user convenience sake. And who made anyone here the God of future feature development ? My suggestion was helpful competitive analysis toward innovation and the response was dont make suggestions.

But the point here isn’t whether YOU think it is a good idea, the point everyone is making is that we know it is an easy sort, that in the past Apple has provided, even if it was buried. And no one should have to sit here and manually alphabetize their apps when all it takes is the most basic sort function.

The beauty of holding a full on computer in your hands is not having to stress the little stuff. The price of this little computer I hold in my hand should afford me a basic sort option without having to explain myself.

While it is all well and good that it’s on that last screen, my organized mind would just like to have my home screens start with being alphabetized and then I will take it from there.

Now that I have covered all of the judgmental objections is there a valid, non-speculative reason they did away with it?

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Maybe you should read the post you responded to that gives you two ways to sort your apps alphabetically. If that is not sufficient get a Samsung if this is a very important feature to you.

Trekingpan wrote:

No need for anyone here to be indigent in their posts.

I don't think Lawrence is indigent. Or indignant.

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Wont

Thank you!!!!!!!!!!!!