I’ve seen several posts from other users, why isn’t Apple listening. Not everyone wants App Library. I had my apps organized in folders the way I wanted them. Now I only have one Home Screen and a jumble in the App Library. I don’t want to have to reorganize everything again.
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iPhone 12 mini, iOS 16
Any chance that you have inadvertently hidden your other Home Screens? See the following from Organize the Home Screen and App Library on your iPhone - Apple Support
With iOS 14 and later, you can hide pages to streamline how your Home Screen looks and add them back whenever you want. Here's how to hide a page:
To unhide a page, repeat the steps above.
Any chance that you have inadvertently hidden your other Home Screens? See the following from Organize the Home Screen and App Library on your iPhone - Apple Support
With iOS 14 and later, you can hide pages to streamline how your Home Screen looks and add them back whenever you want. Here's how to hide a page:
To unhide a page, repeat the steps above.
_Afgunwarrior_ wrote:
No offence my rude friend this is not the matter of swiping to it or not this is the matter of what we want and what we pay for.
EXAMPLE: You want an Ice cream at I cream shop and the ice cream guy will bring for you coffee and say lick it if you like if not don’t then how you will be feeling with that?
That analogy is .... so very wrong. It's more like if I go to an ice cream shop, and they bring me ice cream and a cup of coffee I didn't order. They tell me it's free with the ice cream, but if I don't want it, I don't have to drink it.
If you don't like the App Library, don't use it. And tell Apple you don't like it here:
Well, you have a point, but every time I would inadvertently swipe to the dreaded App Library page I would shake my head in disgust. The AI that organizes the apps into disorganized chaos should be fired. I would be fine with the app library page if it was a simple alphabetical listing, which you can change to by swiping down, but it defaults to the chaos page. My solution was to create a blank page and add a widget I find useful. That's my warning not to swipe further and raise my BP.
No.
DaddyBDG wrote:
Well, you have a point, but every time I would inadvertently swipe to the dreaded App Library page I would shake my head in disgust. The AI that organizes the apps into disorganized chaos should be fired. I would be fine with the app library page if it was a simple alphabetical listing, which you can change to by swiping down, but it defaults to the chaos page. My solution was to create a blank page and add a widget I find useful. That's my warning not to swipe further and raise my BP.
I find there are so many larger problems in the world to worry about than swiping to a page I don't use on my iPhone. I try not to let my technology control me.
No we can’t. Read the messages in the thread you just joined.
Silverzeus wrote:
You do have to use it when you make an extra swipe. We are forced to use it. Remove it.
So don't make the extra swipe. And, even if you do, all you need to do is swipe back; you don't have to actually interact with it.
3BearsC wrote:
How ??? If it was that easy people wouldn’t complain
How do you not use it? Just don't go to that page. Or, if you do, swipe back. It really is that easy.
And yes, people will still complain if they don't like a solution, even if it's easy. For some people, it's a hobby.
Erasmix wrote:
They do not care about us, except for how much revenue they can extract.
How are "they" extracting revenue from you using App Library?
Thus they’re not listening when we say we don’t want the App Library.
I suspect most people either like App Library or don't care. And Apple doesn't read here in this user-to-user forum for feedback or suggestions. You can, however, let Apple know your thoughts here:
If enough people do, perhaps they will make a change.
They could at least take it off the recently used list of apps
What list are you talking about? App Library is not an app.
Ddc2412 wrote:
I totally agree. Absolutely hate it
Tell Apple:
Meanwhile, no one will force you to use the App Library if you don't want to. Just don't swipe to the page.
You don’t have to use it. You can have all your own home screens and never go to the App Library if you prefer. So in effect it is already possible to “turn it off”.
Wonder if anyone at Apple has done studies for people with dyslexia and how the App Library is more confusing
with the way it’s catalogued? The redundant categories keep throwing us for a loop almost like we need play a game for finding an app pictogram match;) can we at least hide it from view to enable a simple Home Screen.
we are sort of minimalist with only enough apps on our phone to take up only one page….
No offence my rude friend this is not the matter of swiping to it or not this is the matter of what we want and what we pay for.
EXAMPLE: You want an Ice cream at I cream shop and the ice cream guy will bring for you coffee and say lick it if you like if not don’t then how you will be feeling with that?
AKRBTN wrote:
Every ice cream shop I’ve ever been to carries flavours I cannot stand. I cope with this by not ordering those flavours. I don’t expect the shop to stop carrying them because I don’t like them.
That's because you're a reasonable, sensible person. ;-)
They do not care about us, except for how much revenue they can extract. Thus they’re not listening when we say we don’t want the App Library. They could at least take it off the recently used list of apps 🤷🏽♂️
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