Warning for millions of iPhone owners – you’re making a huge Home Screen mistake

YOUR iPhone Home Screen might be driving you mad – but it doesn’t need to.

There are loads of ways to clean it up and make it easier on the eyes.

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Having a messy Home Screen can be a nightmare to navigate.

If you’ve got pages of apps all out of order, you’re making a big mistake.

Thankfully anyone with an iPhone running iOS 14 or later (the latest version is iOS 16.2) can easily tidy up their Home Screen.

To check you’re running the right version, go to Settings > General > Software Update.

It’s all thanks to the App Library, which means having a Home Screen packed with apps is no longer necessary.

You can now hide apps from the Home Screen without having to delete them.

And you can even hide entire pages of apps to make your life easier.

So how do these iPhone hacks work?

For a start, you’ve now got a permanent App Library if you scroll all the way to the right of your homescreen.

This is where all of your apps are stored, and they’re automatically organised into their own categories.

So if you’ve got any apps on hidden homescreen pages, they’ll still be visible in your Apple App Library.

Hiding a homescreen page is simple.

First, make sure any apps that you want to hide are stored on a homescreen page you’re happy to hide too.

Then hold your finger down on the homescreen until your app icons start wiggling.

Next, tap on the bubble with dots inside at the bottom of your screen – the one that shows which page you’re on.

This will bring you to a homescreen view that lets you hide individual pages – by “unticking” them.

Once you’re finished, just click Done in the top right-hand corner.

These pages aren’t gone forever, and are perfectly preserved until the next time you want to unhide them.

Of course, you can also leave them hidden forever too.

You can still find hidden apps without going into the App Library.

Simply use the iPhone’s search bar (drag down) or ask Siri.

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