iPhone icons

iPhone icons are small squares of different pictures that represent iPhone applications installed on your iPhone. They exist on the iPhone home screens and can move from one home screen to another.

To move an icons from one home screen to another, tap and hold on any icon, once it starts wiggling, then you can tap and slide it to the left or right to move it to an adjacent home screen. The iPhone can have up to 9 home screens.

By default each home screen on the iPhone can hold 20 icons. That is 16 home screen icons, and 4 iPhone dock icons. However with some iPhone icons hacks you can get up 30 iPhone icons per home screen or even more. Visit the icons hacks page to learn how.

As the iPhone home screens becomes cluttered with icons, they  becomes difficult to arrange, and the icons start to move around from one screen to another.

Apple updated iTunes to include a feature of arranging your icons right in iTunes, and syncing those arrangement with the iPhone. So you won't loose the locations of your icons.

Later in 2010 with the introduction of the iPhone 4, Apple introduced Folders which is an iPhone 4 feature added to iOS4. iPhone Folders allow you to have more control and customization of your applications icons. You can organize and categorize your iPhone applications icons and move them to Folders that you can easily name.

The iPhone dock trick:

One of the iPhone tips and tricks that I found useful is arranging the icons using your iPhone dock. The trick here is to use the dock as icons holder as the dock doesn't move when you flip from one home screen to another, the dock stays stationary.

Imagine having 5 or 6 home pages of icons, and you want to move one icon from the first page to the last page.

This would require you to tap and hold on the icon on the first page and then move your finger to the edge of the screen to the right until you reach the sixth page.

If you accidentally remove your finger, the icon would drop on whatever page.












One of the iPhone tips and tricks is to empty one or more of the 4 iPhone dock icons as shown, and then use this empty space as a holder for any new icons you want to move.

Once you fill this empty iPhone dock space with the new iPhone icon you want to move, You can then flip to the target page and move the icons from the iPhone dock to this new page.

You can see the final result where the new icons are moved from the dock to the new target position in the new home screen.

Also, you now have 2 empty spots in the dock, so you can go back to the first home screen, and put the original icons that you removed back in those empty spots as they were originally.

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