Saturday, June 30, 2012

How to place max apps on Home Screen - iPhone 4S

On iPhone 4S, We can place more than 2000 apps on the Home screen. We just need to know how to add more home screens and how to create folders.

We can add up to 11 home screens and each home screen can have 16 folders with 12 apps each (total of 2112 apps). The inbuilt Newsstand app itself acts as folder which occupies the space of 12 apps. Hence 2101 apps can be placed on the entire 11 home screen. You can create 4 more folders with 12 apps each on the Dock (total of 48 apps). The overall number of apps you can place on the Home screen is 2149.

To do any change on the home screen, touch and hold any app. All the apps will start jiggling. Now,

How to add more Home screens?

Drag the app you want to move to the right hand corner of the screen to reach the next home screen. You can release it to place the app on second home screen or drag it still to right hand corner to reach the third home screen and so on.

How to create a folder on home screen?

When the apps are jiggling, drag any app and release it on top of the other app. A folder will be created with those two apps in it. You can name the folder or leave it with default name.

How to add apps to an existing folder?

When the apps are jiggling, drag the app and release it on top of the existing folder. Now the app is added to the folder.

How to add folders with apps to the Dock?

Create the folders with apps to move to Dock on Home screen. When the folders are jiggling, drag the folder and release it on the Dock. Now the folder is added on the Dock.

Note: In order to free the icons from jiggling, press the Home button.

2 comments:

  1. New one.... at least good to know that we can place 2000 apps. Did you count it, lol?

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