How To Find Apps & Data

Find your apps in App Library on iPhone

App Library shows your apps organized into categories, such every bit Creativity, Social, and Amusement. The apps you lot use near are near the top of the screen and at the pinnacle level of their categories, so you can easily locate and open up them.

App Library on iPhone showing the apps organized by category (Photo & Video, Social, and so on).

Notation: The apps in App Library are organized in categories intelligently, based on how you lot use your apps. You can add apps in App Library to the Home Screen, but you tin't move them to another category in App Library.

Notice and open an app in App Library

Go to the Home Screen, and so swipe left past all your Home Screen pages to go to App Library.
Tap the search field at the pinnacle of the screen, then enter the proper noun of the app yous're looking for. Or coil up and downwardly to browse the alphabetical list.
To open an app, tap it.

If a category has a few small app icons, you can tap them to expand the category and come across all the apps in it.

Hide and show Home Screen pages

Considering you tin find all of your apps in App Library, you might not need as many Home Screen pages for apps. You lot tin can hide some Dwelling Screen pages, which brings App Library closer to your first Habitation Screen page. (When yous desire to come across the hidden pages again, you can show them.)

Touch and hold the Abode Screen until the apps begin to jiggle.
Tap the dots at the bottom of the screen.

Thumbnail images of your Home Screen pages appear with checkmarks below them.
To hide pages, tap to remove the checkmarks.

To show hidden pages, tap to add the checkmarks.
Tap Done twice (on an iPhone with Confront ID) or press the Home push button twice (on other iPhone models).

With the actress Domicile Screen pages subconscious, y'all can go from the first page of the Dwelling house Screen to App Library (and dorsum) with simply one or 2 swipes.

Notation: When Home Screen pages are hidden, new apps you download from the App Shop may be added to App Library instead of the Home Screen.

Reorder Home Screen pages

If you have multiple Home Screen pages, you alter their order. For example, you can gather together your favorite apps on i Home Screen page, and then brand that your offset Home Screen page.

Touch and hold the Home Screen background until the apps begin to jiggle.
Tap the dots at the bottom of the screen.

Thumbnail images of your Home Screen pages appear with checkmarks beneath them.
To move each Home Screen page, touch and hold it, then drag it to a new position.
Tap Done twice (on an iPhone with Confront ID) or press the Dwelling house button twice (on other iPhone models).

Alter where new apps get downloaded

When you lot download new apps from the App Store, you tin add them to the Home Screen and App Library, or to App Library only.

Get to Settings > Home Screen.
Cull whether to add new apps to both your Home Screen and App Library, or to App Library only.

Note: To allow app notification badges to appear on apps in App Library, plough on Show in App Library.

Movement an app from App Library to the Home Screen

You can add an app in App Library to the Home Screen, unless information technology's already there.

Bear on and concord the app, then tap Add to Abode Screen (bachelor only if the app isn't already on the Home Screen).

The app appears on the Home Screen and in App Library.