Use Widgets, App Library, and More
The biggest immediate changes to iOS 14, and to some degree iPadOS 14, are on the Home screen. App Library is a new way to sort and manage your apps. Additionally, the Today View widgets have been overhauled. Not only do they have a new look, they can also be embedded on any page of your Home screen! Finally, you can now view videos in a Picture in Picture window while you do other things in iOS as was already the case in iPadOS.
Clean Up Your Home Screen with App Library
In iOS 14 (not iPadOS 14), the last page of your Home screen contains your App Library. The App Library stores all of your apps in automatically sorted folders. You can now also hide unwanted pages to streamline your Home screen.
Each App Library folder shows four icons. All four icons in the Suggestions folder are apps. In the other folders, three are apps and tapping the fourth (which features a grid of smaller icon thumbnails) reveals the contents of that folder (Figure 17).
Here are some other things you can do with App Library:
Hide unwanted Home screen pages: Touch and hold an empty section of the Home screen to enter jiggle mode. Tap the dots indicating Home screen pages to enter the Edit Pages screen. Tap the check circle under a page to show or hide it (Figure 18).
Figure 18: Tap the Home screen page indicator to reveal a screen that lets you easily hide Home screen pages. Add App Library apps to the Home screen: Enter jiggle mode and drag an app out of the App Library onto a Home screen page.
View App Library apps in alphabetical order: Swipe down on the App Library screen to see all apps in alphabetical order.
Remove an app from the Home screen without deleting it: Tap and hold an app on the Home screen and choose Remove App. At the prompt, choose Remove from Home Screen. The app disappears from your Home screen, but remains in the App Library.
Add Widgets to Your Home Screen
In iOS 14 (not iPadOS 14), you can add widgets to your Home screen. To do so:
Touch and hold an empty section of a Home screen to enter jiggle mode.
Tap the +
in the upper-left corner.Choose a widget from the list or use the search field to find one (Figure 19).
Most widgets come in difference sizes: small (about four app icons in size), medium (two whole rows of app icons), or large (four rows of app icons).
There’s also a special widget, called the Smart Stack. The Smart Stack contains a grab bag of choices: Memories from Photos, recent Notes, Apple Music selection, items from News, and more. The Smart Stack comes in two sizes, small or medium, and it changes content dynamically throughout the day. Alternatively, you can swipe through each item in the Smart Stack (Figure 20).
Most widgets have settings of their own, which you can access by tapping and holding a widget and choosing Edit Widget. The Smart Stack has a special option, called Edit Stack, which lets you rearrange the order of the Smart Stack items and turn off Smart Rotate (Figure 21).
Use Picture in Picture Mode on the iPhone
Picture in Picture (PiP) has been a thing on the iPad for years, and on the Apple TV for the past year. Now it’s finally available on the iPhone, assuming your video app supports it.
PiP makes it so that you can do other things while watching a video on your iPhone. Instead of the video taking up your entire screen, you can shrink the video into a small window and keep watching and listening while doing other things with your phone (Figure 22).
While watching a compatible video, tap the screen to view the video controls, and then tap the PiP 
icon. The video attaches to the lower-right corner of the screen by default, but you can flick it to any corner of the screen.
Tap inside the video window to see video controls. Tapping the PiP button in the video takes you back to the originating app.