What is the iPhone App Library

When you have many applications installed on the iPhone, it is possible that it will generate a little chaos and you will not be aware of the apps that are on the pages. In this situation, Apple has created the application library that automatically organizes all these applications. In this article we tell you what this functionality consists of.

Access application library

In order to enter the application library, you simply have to scroll to the right between the different pages of the iPhone. When you get to the last one on the right, there is always an extra one, which is where all the applications gathered are shown in automatically organized folders. The position of this page is immovable, as is the case with the Widgets page on the far left.

What is the iPhone App Library

Automatic organization of applications

All the applications you have installed on the iPhone will be in the application library. Without you having to do nothing, they will be organized in different folders by theme. This is something that always had to be done manually on different pages with folders. Now you can save this task thanks to the operating system that will do this for you. The operation is quite successful since it gathers the applications quite well. For example, social networks are grouped in the ‘Social’ folder and browsers in the ‘Navigation’ app.

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Visually in the folders you can see the logos of a few applications, but they are not necessarily all those available within. The operating system learns from your application usage habits and that is why those apps you use most often will always appear with a larger icon. This is tremendously useful to have quick access to those apps that you use the most. In the lower left corner of each of the folders you will see the applications you use less frequently. Clicking on them will open the folder as such where you can view all the applications that are grouped in this folder.

At the top of the application library you can find a search engine that acts as a Finder so that you can crawl between your applications. This greatly facilitates the use of this functionality, since if you do not find a specific application well you can always search for it in this way.

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In no case is the user allowed to customize the applications in each of the folders, having to adapt to what the operating system chooses. This is why even if you talk about folders as such, you cannot remove an app from the folder or enter one. This is logical, since for this task there are the normal folders on the iPhone page. The application library is designed to save the user work and to have all the applications organized in an automatic and intelligent way.

Remove apps from the home screen

Something that the application library allows is to clean the pages of the iPhone that can be in quite chaos. Entering the customization mode of the applications that allows you to move them freely or uninstall them now allows you to delete them from the home screen. This means that the app remains installed but is only accessible through the application library. What is achieved is to have a much cleaner vision without so many pages full of apps that in reality they are not given much use. They are all organized so that you can access them in a visual way and removing the chaos that may exist. You can even delete all the pages of the iPhone to keep only the main one and everything else will be in the background.

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Compatible Devices

The application library is only available as of iOS 14, this being one of the star functions that were presented. This is why the supported devices are:

  • iPhone 6s
  • iPhone 6s Plus
  • iPhone SE (1st generation)
  • iPhone 7
  • iPhone 7 Plus
  • iPhone 8
  • iPhone 8 Plus
  • iPhone X
  • iPhone XS
  • iPhone XS Max
  • iPhone XR
  • iPhone 11
  • iPhone 11 Pro
  • iPhone 11 Pro Max
  • iPhone SE (2nd generation)

Obviously all these teams have to be on iOS 14 or higher. It is currently in beta so it will not be possible to install this software version for all users. When the update is released to all users, the application library can be easily enjoyed.