How to Declutter Your Home Screen - WIRED

If you inactive privation casual entree to apps but find that you conscionable person excessively galore icons connected your location screens, folders tin help. To make a folder, resistance an icon connected apical of different icon—it tin beryllium an app shortcut oregon a shortcut to thing else, similar a interaction oregon a website. The folder volition beryllium created, and you tin resistance much shortcuts into it if needed. To rename a folder, pat connected it to unfastened it and past pat its name.

For example, you could make a folder of societal media apps, oregon a folder of apps you request for work, oregon a folder of your astir utilized contacts. Tap and hold, past resistance idiosyncratic icons to instrumentality them retired of the folder oregon region them from the location screen—you tin besides tap, hold, and resistance a folder successful its entirety up to the Remove fastener to get it disconnected the location surface without installing the apps oregon shortcuts wrong it.

When it comes to widgets, retrieve that galore of them tin beryllium resized: You mightiness privation to marque definite widgets smaller to escaped up immoderate room, oregon adjacent marque them larger to support your location screens simpler. To spot whether a widget tin beryllium resized, pat and clasp connected it—if you tin set the tallness and width of it connected the screen, you’ll spot handles look astatine the sides.

Head to Settings and take Wallpaper and style past App grid, and you tin acceptable however tightly spaced the icons are connected your location screen, which tin assistance with decluttering. You tin besides agelong property connected a location screen, take Customize, and crook disconnected the Add app icons to location screen toggle switch. This way, erstwhile you instal caller apps, they won’t automatically get a shortcut connected the location screen.

iPhone

Open up the Settings surface connected iOS, and prime Home Screen to determine wherever to enactment caller apps: Pick App Library Only to adhd them to the last location screen, oregon Add to Home Screen to make different shortcut connected a modular location surface arsenic well. The erstwhile enactment is the 1 to spell for to support your location screens arsenic uncluttered arsenic imaginable (you tin easy adhd app shortcuts manually, if you request to).

If there’s an app shortcut connected a location surface that you privation to get escaped of, pat and hold, past somewhat resistance it to bring up the tiny – (minus) awesome adjacent to it. Tap connected this to region the shortcut without deleting the app. Any website shortcuts you mightiness person created successful Safari tin beryllium removed successful the aforesaid way.