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The App Library is an fantabulous instrumentality for browsing each the apps connected your iPhone, particularly since it includes each 1 of the location surface bookmarks you've made for websites and shortcuts. But it's each the mode past your past location surface page. If you person a batch of disposable location surface pages, that's a batch of swiping to unfastened the App Library. Luckily, determination is simply a instrumentality to accessing it faster.
Options We Need to Open App Library but Don't Have
Ideally, Apple would see an enactment to un-hide an app icon for App Library itself, and we could spot it successful the dock for casual entree from immoderate location surface page. Apple already gives the iPad a "Show App Library successful Dock" power to bash conscionable that, truthful wherefore can't the iPhone person it?
There's not adjacent a known URL scheme assigned to App Library that would let america to marque a bookmark icon — which looks precisely similar an app icon — for the location screen. The Apple TV Remote utilized to beryllium accessible lone from Control Center earlier iOS 16.0, but present it tin act much similar a existent app with its caller URL scheme. So wherefore can't we bash the aforesaid for App Library connected iPhones?
It can't beryllium casual for users that usage accessibility settings to interact with their devices to find and unfastened App Library. If you person trouble swiping the screen, you're retired of luck. There's nary App Library enactment for Back Tap, AssistiveTouch, oregon the Accessibility Shortcut, and asking Siri to unfastened App Library volition conscionable frustrate you. When are we getting these, Apple?
Your Only Options to Open App Library Faster connected iPhone
From what I know, determination are lone 4 options for accessing App Library faster connected your iPhone. They aren't immoderate amended than immoderate of the non-existent methods I mentioned above, but they'll bash for now. Options 1 and 2 aren't precise large since they impact reconfiguring your location screen, truthful options 3 and 4 whitethorn beryllium the champion way.
Option 1: Limit Your Home Pages
You tin bounds the fig of location surface pages you have, truthful swiping to App Library doesn't instrumentality arsenic long. This is not perfect if you similar having each your apps connected location surface pages. But if you lone person 2 progressive location surface pages, that's 2 tiny near swipes connected the surface to unfastened App Library.
Option 2: Hide Your Home Pages
You tin besides hide location surface pages until you request them, which gives the aforesaid effect arsenic enactment 1 above. This isn't perfect either if you often entree the apps connected your hidden location surface pages. But if you similar the App Library, you tin marque it 1 near swipe away, past unhide location surface pages whenever you request oregon want.
Option 3: Use a Two-Swipe Gesture
On iOS 16.0 and later, conscionable interaction and resistance the Search fastener supra your dock to the close without letting spell until you scope the past location surface page. Then, merchandise and swipe near to unfastened App Library.
If you're hiding the Search button connected iOS 16.0 and aboriginal oregon haven't updated to an iOS 16 firmware yet, you'll spot dots supra the dock instead, indicating each your location surface pages. Touch and resistance the highlighted dot to the close until it comes to a stop, past near swipe connected that past location surface leafage to unfastened App Library. This is really rather a spot faster than swiping the Search button.
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Option 4: Use Voice Control Without Any Swipes
Siri whitethorn not beryllium capable to unfastened the App Library for you, but the Voice Control accessibility diagnostic can. It whitethorn not beryllium faster than the swiping options above, but it's adjuvant if you don't privation to swipe.
You person much than a fewer options to unfastened and adjacent Voice Control.
- Go to Settings –> Accessibility –> Voice Control, past toggle connected oregon disconnected Voice Control. That's conscionable much swiping, though.
- Add it to your Accessibility Shortcut (Settings –> Accessibility –> Accessibility Shortcut), truthful it's conscionable a triple-click of the Home oregon Side fastener away. If you person much than 1 enactment assigned to the shortcut, pat Voice Control from the enactment menu.
- Assign it to a Back Tap motion (Settings –> Accessibility –> Touch –> Back Tap). Then, double-tap oregon triple-tap the Apple logo connected the backmost of your iPhone.
- Assign it to an AssistiveTouch motion (Settings –> Accessibility –> Touch –> AssistiveTouch). Turn the diagnostic on, past double-tap, triple-tap, oregon long-press the AssistiveTouch icon connected your screen.
- Ask Siri. This is astir apt the fastest option. Use phrases similar "Turn Voice Control on/off," "Turn on/off Voice Control," oregon "Start/stop Voice Control," to sanction a few.
- When Voice Control is enabled, it's really faster to marque it crook itself disconnected by saying "Turn Voice Control off" oregon "Turn disconnected Voice Control." Obviously, Voice Control can't crook connected itself.
Now that you cognize however to alteration and disable Voice Control, let's usage it to unfastened the App Library. Turn it on, past accidental 1 of the pursuing phrases. If it doesn't work, spell to Settings –> Accessibility –> Voice Control –> Customize Commands –> Basic Navigation –> Open App Library, past toggle connected the "Enabled" switch.
- "Open App Library"
- "Open the App Library"
- "Show App Library"
- "Show the App Library"
Could We See Better Options? Maybe...
That's arsenic bully arsenic it gets for present (unless you privation to jailbreak your iPhone). The fastest swipe 1 isn't adjacent large since you tin inadvertently clasp the surface excessively long, causing the location surface exertion to open. Maybe Apple volition 1 time adhd astatine slightest 1 of the suggestions antecedently mentioned, but who knows when.
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