A ‘sneaky’ iPhone hack that allows you to organise your home screen in mere seconds has gone viral as people had no idea it existed – despite owning Apple products for years
iPhone enthusiasts have uncovered a faster method to spruce up their home screens in mere seconds. For countless iPhone owners who have attempted the tedious task of app arrangement, you will be well-acquainted with the absolute pain it can be at times.
Typically, this process involves relocating each app individually, whether you’re putting them in folders or across various home screen pages – all in pursuit of clustering your games together and segregating your productivity tools. While not every user is fussed about maintaining an immaculate home screen, for the tidiness-inclined, it can take hours to perfect its appearance.
And that’s excluding the additional fiddling with colour coordination and playful widgets. But what if there were a shortcut that transforms this laborious chore into a breeze?
A trick apparently unknown to many has been circulating among Apple fans on social media, suggesting a quicker technique for reconfiguring apps on the home screen – promising to revamp your layout in seconds.
The social media account “Today Years Old” divulged the revelation through a video on X, demonstrating how dragging apps one by one is no longer necessary.
Initially, the clip shows the conventional process: long-pressing an app, opting to shift it, followed by tediously dragging it to another page. The genius of the video becomes apparent when they unveil the “sneaky” manoeuvre, empowering users to transport multiple apps simultaneously.
All you need to do is start dragging an app like you’re about to flip it to another screen, then lightly tap the rest of the icons you want to move with your other hand. Before you know it, they’re lumped together in one merry band, and you can easily whisk them off to their new page without them tucking into a folder.
The X account couldn’t contain its disbelief, proclaiming: “Had every iPhone since 2007 and just found out about this feature today. I’m sick.”
The revelation had other iPhone users scratching their heads, expressing their surprise at just discovering this nifty manoeuvre despite being on the iPhone bandwagon for nearly two decades.
A gobsmacked user confessed: “I’ve had almost every iPhone since the first one to come out. I know most of the tricks and ‘hacks’ there are for this phone. I had ZERO idea that you could do this. Insane.”
Someone else posted: “This would have made a few days in my life a lot better had I known this then.”
Another recounted initially thinking the clip was nothing more than an everyday guide to moving apps around. But they confessed the actual reveal of the hack was “life-changing”.
But other commenters reminded people that having owned iPhones for decades doesn’t necessarily mean you’ll know about the hack – as the feature was only added eight years ago during iOS 11’s debut in 2017.
One individual remarked: “To be fair, this didn’t come out until quite recently.”
Another chimed in with: “That feature was not out in 2007. It recently came out in an iOS update.”