- How to Organize Apps Alphabetically
How you arrange your apps will depend on how you use
your phone, which memory tricks work best for you, and your
aesthetic preferences. There’s no wrong way to organize your
apps, whether by frequency of use or by colors of the rain-
bow, as long as the system is helpful to you,
If you’ve experimented and are not pleased with the new
organization of your iPhone’s Home screens, it’s possible to
restore your apps to their original layout. Taking this step will
remove all your folders and arrange your native Apple apps
fi rst, followed by your third-party apps, alphabetically orga-
nized. To do this, open the Settings app and tap General, then
tap Reset (fi gure 16). Tap Reset Home Screen Layout (fi gure
17), then confi rm that you want to Reset Home Screen.
9) How to Make Folders
If you have a large collection of apps, you may want to cre-
ate some folders to sort them into. To make a folder on your
iPhone, touch and hold an app until a menu pops up, then tap
Rearrange Apps. Once the app wiggles, drag it onto another
app that you’d like to have in the same folder and let go (fi gure
18). A folder will automatically be created; if you don’t like the
folder name your iPhone suggests, tap on the folder, then tap
the x in the title box and enter a new name (fi gure 19). Add
more apps into this folder by touching, dragging, and dropping
them in. Tap Done or press your Home button when fi nished
creating your folder. If you’d like to move a folder, just touch
and hold, then move it in the same way you would a single
app.
10) How to Switch Between Apps
The App Switcher lets you easily switch from one open
app to another or quickly close one or more apps. To access
the App Switcher on the iPhone X and later, swipe up from
the bottom of your screen, stopping in the middle. All of your
apps that are currently open will appear in a stack; swipe right
and left to see previews of all the apps you currently have
open (fi gure 20), tap on one to use it.
On the iPhones 8 and earlier the process is the same, ex-
cept that you need to double-click the Home button to make
your open apps appear. If one of your apps keeps unexpected-
ly crashing, freezing, or won’t open, you can try force closing
the app. To do this, just open the App Switcher and swipe up
on the preview of the app that’s been giving you problems
(fi gure 21).
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Leanne Hays is the Associate Editor at iPhone Life. She loves reading and blogging,
and is never without a book in her backpack or an audiobook on her phone. Short-
term goals include fi nishing painting her house and starting an aquaponics farm,
long-term goals include a bike tour of Italy and writing a novel.
