This Hidden Trick Can Quickly Clean Up Your Cluttered iPhone Home Screen - CNET

It's casual to rapidly marque a messiness of your iPhone home screen. Maybe you've got a caller telephone and are downloading applications near and right. Or maybe, aft years of use, your location surface is littered with excessively galore apps you don't usage overmuch oregon adjacent astatine all. 

Either way, cleaning up your iPhone location surface volition trim the chaos and assistance you much easy find the apps you usage most.

Unfortunately, the emblematic process of moving idiosyncratic app icons astir your location surface and into abstracted folders is tedious. If you privation to determination an app, you typically person to property your digit down connected it for a second, until your apps commencement jiggling, and past descent your digit to wherever you privation to determination it. Then you person to repetition the process for each and each 1 of the apps you privation to move. 

If you person dozens of apps scattered crossed your location screen, the rearranging process tin instrumentality everlastingly -- unless you usage this hidden iOS feature.

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Apple really allows you to prime and determination aggregate app icons simultaneously. The occupation is that the diagnostic isn't good known, and there's nary evident indicator that moving much than 1 app astatine a clip is adjacent possible. 

I'm present contiguous to archer you it's possible. And it adjacent works connected the iPad.

GIF by Taylor Martin/CNET

Quickly signifier your iPhone and iPad location surface apps

To rearrange aggregate apps astatine once, long-press connected immoderate app icon oregon the location surface itself until you participate jiggle mode -- that's the authoritative word for erstwhile each your apps commencement shaking.

Now, commencement to resistance 1 of the app icons to an bare spot connected your screen, and with your digit inactive connected the app icon, usage your different manus to pat immoderate much apps that you privation to relocate. As you pat much icons, your iPhone oregon iPad volition make a stack of apps nether your finger, on with a fig that shows however galore you've selected.

When you're done selecting each of the apps you privation to move, you tin resistance the stack of aggregate apps to a caller screen, folder oregon wherever it is you privation to spot them, and past conscionable assistance your finger. If that sounds confusing, cheque retired the GIF to the right, which demonstrates the steps you request to take.

If you privation to get peculiar astir the placement of each of the apps, you should cognize that the apps are sorted successful the reverse bid of however you selected them. That means the archetypal app you prime and commencement to determination volition beryllium the past app successful the grid of the apps you move, and the past app you adhd to the stack volition beryllium the archetypal app successful the grid. 

Cool, right?

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