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iOS 14.5: Here’s how to use App library and hide useless home screens in iPhone 12

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Trying to figure out how to find the App Library in iPhone 12? Simply swipe right-to-left through your Home screen. Eventually, you’ll find a series of auto-generated folders with categories like ‘Recently Added’ and ‘Utilities’ to choose from.

You can tap a larger icon to directly enter that app, or tap a smaller collection of icons to make every app in that category visible.

Tap on the ‘App Library’ search bar to see an A-to-Z list of every installed app. From here, or from the main view, tap and drag an app icon and you’ll be taken to your rightmost home screen, where you can drop the app so it’s easier to find outside of the Library.

You can hide apps within your iPhone 12 home screens

Now that you have the App Library, you don’t need to have every app visible on your home screen. It’s likely that you have whole screens full of apps you rarely need to see or use, taking up space you can use for widgets.

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If you want to condense your app collection and clean up your home screens without removing them one by one, we suggest hiding these cluttered screens to save time.

Long press your home screen to enter ‘jiggle mode’, then tap the dots directly above the dock that shows how many screens there are. Toggle off the superfluous screens by tapping their checkmarks, then hit ‘Done’ to go back to Home.


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