For years upon years, the smartphone fandom has been split in two — those who loved their app drawer on their Android device and those who didn't care. See, not every app is worthy to be on your homescreen — it may be something that you launch super-rarely, it may be a background monitoring app, or just an app that you downloaded for its widget. Yet, if you happen to be on an iPhone, you'd get your homescreens constantly cluttered with these extra apps.
Android users constantly praise the app drawer as the most underrated feature of the system for its decluttering power. Until now, Apple was adamant on not adding it. Well... it's coming with iOS 14! What a time to be alive, right?
Technically, it's called App Library on iOS. The right-most homescreen that you scroll to will have all of your apps, intelligently sorted by their utility — games, creativity, social, et cetera — all the categories that iOS can recognize. You can either use the top search bar to find an app, open the "suggested" folder (the iPhone learns from your usage patterns and suggests an app), which will be persistent as the first option you get in the app library, or scroll through the categories to find what you are looking for.
Hide homescreens to declutter your device
With the App Library added, you won't need 47 homescreens anymore. So, iOS 14 will let you hide all of those extra screens when you are in "wiggle" mode (homescreen edit mode).
But wait! There's widgets!
For a few years now, iOS has supported widgets. Kind of, sort of, not exactly. Widgets were only present in your "Today" screen — when you swipe right on the lock screen or when you swipe right from your first homescreen. Technically usable, but not always optimal. The point of widgets is to give at-a-glimpse information, and the way iOS had them up until now was kind of tucked-away like it was ashamed of them or something.
On iOS 14, you will be able to customise the size of your widgets and place them on any homescreen you wish. Again, that's something that Android users have mocked iOS for not being able to do for some years now... Well, in 2020, who's laughing now? Ha... ha-ha... ha!
When is iOS 14 coming out?
Historically, it has been in September for multiple years in a row now. As per Apple's words, iOS 14 will be released in Fall of 2020. So, yeah — probably on schedule.
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Preslav, a member of the PhoneArena team since 2014, is a mobile technology enthusiast with a penchant for integrating tech into his hobbies and work. Whether it's writing articles on an iPad Pro, recording band rehearsals with multiple phones, or exploring the potential of mobile gaming through services like GeForce Now and Steam Link, Preslav's approach is hands-on and innovative. His balanced perspective allows him to appreciate both Android and iOS ecosystems, focusing on performance, camera quality, and user experience over brand loyalty.
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