iOS Home Page icon Placement

You guys really need to try an android phone. I just used a new google pixel for 6 months…with android you can organize your home screens in any way you’d like. For example, I organized mine in a hotshot pattern so I could see my kid’s faces in the background photo. I came back to iPhone because of the issue with iMessage group chats (see justice department case against apple for anti-consumer behavior). Home Screen on apple could be done much better…very frustrating for me as a returning apple user

In which case, you may want to offer feedback to Apple about it. If enough people offer feedback, then Apple may add the option in a future update.

click here ➜ Feedback - iPhone - Apple

click here ➜ Feedback - iPad - Apple

The icons move in a very specific way to accommodate the icons you are moving around.

When you move icons, other icons, need to get out of the way to make room for the icon you are moving. There's no way to move an icon and not have others around it move to make room for it.

If a specific line of icons is already full when you move an icon to it, then the icon closest to the right edge will move to the next line when you drag the new icon over that line, pushing the icons on the next line off by one. Not sure how else you expect it to work? There's has to be room to drop the icon somewhere and if there's no room, then the icons need to move to make room.

If the icons move such that the last line is also full, but needs to accommodate another icon, then yes, the right-most icon on the last line will move to the next page.

Not sure what exactly you expect, if icons don't move then you would have nowhere to drop the icon you are moving.

It can't be static and still accommodate a new icon, if there's no room for it.

You can alleviate this, by having the last space on the last line of every page always be empty. Then moving an icon around will not cause the last icon to move to the next page.

That's more for new features than suggestions for existing features and issues.

You can submit comments and suggestions through the feedback forms and apple will read them and if enough people comment and make the same or similar suggestion, Apple has been known to make the change.

Not sure what you expect, but you can’t put an app where there isn’t room for it. The icons move to accommodate the change. Apps are restrained to a grid-like pattern, trying to place an app in between other apps will not work and your device will snap the app into place and intelligently move other apps out of the way. Apple devices are designed to be clean, and placing apps between other apps, outside of the grid would not be very practical. Additionally, if you are attempting to move apps like on an Android, where apps can be placed floating around without gravitation, then this is normal as on an iPad this isn’t possible, as all apps are gravitated towards the top left corner in columns. Please elaborate on what you mean, as there is only so much I can try to do for you with this limited information. So far, this seems normal to me.

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oh well. guess we’ll just have to live with it

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You guys really need to try an android phone. I just used a new google pixel for 6 months…with android you can organize your home screens in any way you’d like. For example, I organized mine in a hotshot pattern so I could see my kid’s faces in the background photo. I came back to iPhone because of the issue with iMessage group chats (see justice department case against apple for anti-consumer behavior). Home Screen on apple could be done much better…very frustrating for me as a returning apple user

Go look at the recording of WWC 2024. The link is on Apple's main page. Changes are coming.

Okay, understood. That sounds like a nice feature if it existed. Unfortunately such a feature doesn’t exist on IOS or iPadOS. 😞