I consider myself an advanced iPhone user because I spend a lot of time with this smartphone in my hands every day. I use almost all the chips and features of iOS, including even such less popular ones as tapping on the back cover and quick commands to optimize my work.
However, there is one feature that appeared on all iPhones back in 2020, and which I do not use at all. Although she is present at a distance a couple of swipes on the home screen.
It’s about the application library.
This completely useless icon stock, which are organized and stuffed into folders according to certain machine algorithms. I can’t rename, move, or change their location in any way, nor can I change the names of the folders they’re in.
Why is this library needed at all?
Useless function with incomprehensible logic
The program for generating images using AI got into “Communication”. Well, OK.
The Cupertino engineers wanted to make life easier for the iPhone user who is constantly installing new apps from the App Store, not sorting them into folders, and getting confused by the abundance of home screens.
The system independently classifies and arranges installed applications into folders, and it becomes easier for the user to find them, because, for example, all installed applications of this category will be collected in the Social Networks folder.
In practice, putting things in order on the home screen is not difficult: I personally have folders that are called as it is convenient and understandable for me, which contain exactly the applications that I personally put there. And so much more convenient.
For example, Yandex has many applications – for calling a taxi, for accessing Yandex.Disk, a metro map, maps, a navigator, and so on. They are all installed on my iPhone and are in the corresponding Yandex folder. However, in the Application Library they are all scattered into different categories, and this is a much more inconvenient solution.
Two kicksharing apps in completely different folders. Why.
And what names are given to folders! “Games” and “Purchases” are even more or less understandable and you can guess what lies there, but why did the system put the application for generating pictures by artificial intelligence in the folder “Communication‘, not in ‘Creativity» to other photo and video editors? And the application for questions and answers Yandex.Q generally can be found in the folder “Other».
What else is it if this is a real application for communication.
The main thing is that I can’t influence the ordering of applications in this library in any way, I can’t change folder names or drag applications from one folder to another.
That’s why I never open this application library, because my personal classification of installed games and programs is much more convenient and familiar.
Moreover, I interviewed all my acquaintances with iPhones, and found out that most of them agree with my opinion. There are very few people using the application library, and this reminds me of the situation with the Touch Bar – the touch strip on MacBooks, which Apple rather quickly abandoned due to its unpopularity.
Perhaps in iOS 17, the Cupertians will also remove the application library without too much advertising, and to be honest, I won’t be very upset.
Do you use this iOS feature?
The application library is
- Very convenient, I use
- Uncomfortable, don’t use
- And what is it?
- I have android
23% Very convenient, I use
66% Uncomfortable, don’t use
5% And what is it?
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Mikk Seed
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I write about everything that is interesting and informative – gadgets, events, reports. I am fond of playing the drums, a music lover with experience.
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