Rearranging Icons

The Home screen displays icons that represent the features and apps on your iPhone,such as Calendar or iTunes. If you find yourself using some features or apps more often than others (or ignoring some features altogether), you may want to rearrange the icons on the Home screen so that they appear in the order you prefer.

For example, suppose you use the Calendar and iTunes programs every day, but you rarely use the Camera or Text messaging programs. To make it easy to access the Calendar and iTunes programs, you could put these icons in the corners of the screen (to make it easy to tap them with your thumbs) and place seldom-used program icons in the middle of the screen.

To rearrange icons on the Home screen, follow these steps:

  1. From the Home screen, point to the icon that you want to move and hold your finger on that icon until all icons on the Home screen start jiggling.

  2. Slide your finger to a spot where you want to move the icon. A "ghost" image of the icon will appear to show you where the icon will land, as shown in Figure 6-1.When you move an icon in between two others, those two icons glide out of the way.

    An icon appears as a "ghost" image when you move it across the Home screen.

    Figure 6-1. An icon appears as a "ghost" image when you move it across the Home screen.

    Note

    The bottom of the Home screen can display your four most commonly used application icons, such as Phone or iPod. You can move any icon off this bottom bar and move another icon in its place. You can store a maximum of four icons on the bottom bar.

  3. Lift your finger off the screen when you're happy with the new location of the icon. Then move any other icons you'd like to rearrange.

    Note

    At this time, you can tap the close button (the white X) in the upper-left corner of any application icon you installed on your iPhone, as shown in Figure 6-2. Tapping the close button deletes the app entirely from your iPhone. (You cannot delete the standard iPhone apps such as Phone or Safari.)

    A close button appears in the upper-left corner of apps you can delete off your iPhone.

    Figure 6-2. A close button appears in the upper-left corner of apps you can delete off your iPhone.

  4. Press the Home button to stop all the Home screen icons from jiggling and end your rearranging session.

Note

Remember that the Home screen actually consists of at least two panes. To move an icon off one pane and onto another, hold your finger on the icon and slide it to the left or right until the other pane appears. You can have up to 11 separate panes full of icons.

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