Take a moment to download a
thousand or so apps to your phone. Finished? You may notice that the number of
possible screens has maxed out at eleven, allowing for a maximum of 220 apps on
an iPhone 5, and 176 apps on earlier models. It's not as though the thousands
of other apps that you just bought never made it on to your phone; it's just
that you have to search for them, which can be a bummer.
Want to increase the limit? Use
folders. Simply press and hold an icon until all the icons start jiggling. Then
drag that jiggling icon on top of another jiggling icon, and the two apps will
be grouped together into a folder. Press the home button to save your changes.
On an iPhone 5, each folder can
hold up to 16 apps, which means that if you put every app in a folder you can
display up to 3,520 apps over 11 pages, plus another four in your spotlight. On
the earlier models, the folder limit is 12, making for a maximum of 2,112 apps,
plus four in the spotlight bar.
Can you push this even further?
Yes, by dragging folders to the four spots in your spotlight dock, making for a
total of 3,600 apps on the iPhone 5.
Even if you're not a deranged
app hoarder, you still might find folders useful for grouping together
similarly-themed apps.
You can name the folders
whatever you like. (Screenshot)
