Apple introduced some exciting new Home screen features with the release of iOS 14, including the App Library. The App Library lives to the right of your last Home screen and holds every app installed on your device, but it’s not for everyone.
If you can’t get to grips with the App Library or simply don’t like how it works, we’ll show you what to do about it below. Unfortunately, you can’t disable or hide the App Library, but you can learn to live alongside it.
The App Library is a new Home screen on your iPhone that lists every single app on your device. Apple automatically organizes apps in the App Library using smart folders or by alphabetizing them when you tap the Search bar.
The App Library organizes apps into folders.
Tap the bottom-right corner of a folder to open it.
Tap the Search bar to view apps as a list.
To access the App Library, keep swiping from right to left to go past your last Home screen.
Apple intended the App Library to replace excessive, disorganized Home screens which hold apps you don’t use that often. With iOS 14 you can choose to delete apps from these Home screens while keeping them on your device. When you do that, you can still find them in the App Library.
You can also hide entire Home screens in iOS 14. If you wanted, you could hide all of them and only use the App Library to find apps.
But while Apple intended the App Library to simplify iPhone organization, it’s not for everybody, and some users would prefer to hide or disable the App Library instead.
How do I disable the App Library?
Unfortunately, you can’t disable or hide the App Library in iOS 14. This organizational tool is here to stay. But if you really can’t stand the App Library, you don’t need to use it.
Apple tucked the App Library away on the right edge of your last Home screen. There was nothing there before iOS 14.
So if you don’t like the App Library, all you need to do is avoid swiping past your last Home screen and you can totally forget it exists.
There are, however, a couple of settings you might need to change to ensure you don’t find yourself in a situation where you need to use the App Library.
1. Make sure new apps don’t save to the App Library
With iOS 14, it’s possible to send new apps straight to the App Library to avoid them cluttering up your precious Home screens. If you don’t want to use the App Library, you definitely don’t want this to happen.
Go to Settings > Home Screen and select Add to Home Screen.
Choose to add new apps to the Home screen in the settings.
This ensures that any new apps you download appear on your Home screen, rather than hiding away in the App Library.
2. Make sure all your Home screens are visible
One of the reasons Apple introduced the App Library was because some users felt frustrated at how cluttered their Home screens had become. In previous versions of iOS, you were forced to give every app a place on one of your Home screens, leaving you with countless screens of messy apps.
With the App Library, that is no longer the case. And now, Apple lets you hide Home screens entirely so you don’t need to worry about reorganizing them.
Of course, if you don’t want to use the App Library, you don’t want to hide any Home screens either. Otherwise you might be unable to find an app that is sitting in a hidden Home screen.
To show all your Home screens, tap and hold in a blank space on the Home screen to enter Jiggle mode. Now tap the Home screen dots at the bottom of the screen to see a zoomed-out view of every Home screen on your iPhone.
Tap and hold to enter Jiggle mode.
Unchecked Home screens are hidden.
Tap each Home screen to enable the Check icon and make sure it shows up on your iPhone. Any Home screens without the Check icon are hidden from view.
3. Start using Spotlight to open apps
If you don’t like the App Library but you don’t want to keep all your Home screens either, you can use Spotlight to open apps instead.
Simply drag down from the middle of your Home screen to reveal a search bar. Then start typing the name of the app you want to open and tap it in the search results to launch it.
Spotlight is usually the fastest way to open iPhone apps.
Using Spotlight, you can minimize your Home screens without needing to use the App Library every time you’re looking for a hidden app.
Learn to appreciate the App Library
The App Library is far from perfect. If you have a lot of other Home screens, it still takes a while to get to the App Library. And once you do so, Apple’s automatic categories often put apps in strange locations and make them even harder to find.
It’s understandable why you might want to hide or disable the App Library. But you should consider learning to embrace it instead.
With the App Library, you can simplify your Home screens, make more space to add new iOS widgets, and still retain easy access to all of your apps. There’s a lot to like about the App Library, so why not give it a shot?
Dan writes tutorials and troubleshooting guides to help people make the most of their technology. Before becoming a writer, he earned a BSc in Sound Technology, supervised repairs at an Apple Store, and even taught English in China.
Why not make it an option for us rebels who don’t want to ’embrace’ that extra useless Entire page of apps.
I have my apps all lined up the way I want them, thank you very much. I don’t need Apple to sully my iPad with a useless, full-page app that I know I WILL NEVER USE.
It’s in my way and it is annoying every time I swipe too far. I look at it for approximately 0.005 seconds and swipe back. I hate it, i really do.
Hello….. kids and crazy obsessive people with access to phone with or without permission. Please allow me the responsibility to dictate my experience and have creative power over my content. How about a password protected toggle option and allow the opportunity to hide and protect app access. Why strip me of my privacy?
I don’t use it, I don’t like it, I can click on search and type 2-3 letters of the app I’m searching for and it pulls right up quickly nothing is better than that and it just makes more sense to me than using an app library, sometimes I swap to view it and I look at it but have never even wanted to use it, by default, I rather go to search and type the three letters!! Plus what they show is usually not what I’m looking for at that time so it never gets used.
I have a concern if we can download an app, why can’t it be disabled, especially the account of money we pay for service we should be able to activate and deactivate apps, my library is full and I want to clean it up, how do I delete apps that I do not want on my phone, it is cluttering up my storage, please fix this!
I don‘t need or want Tyrants doing my thinking or organizing for me. App Library is a despicable intrusion that needs to offer an Option to abort it. If you (or Apple) do not understand the importance of Options, you and they are nothing more than Tyrants, and ASAP, l will exercise my Option to trash, iPhone, and go with the many Freedom- loving alternatives that are available.
This worse than useless unremovable App Library feature interferes with normal use. It is the worst part of an iPhone. I won’t jailbreak my phone for privacy reasons. I suggest everyone call Apple Tech support (800) 692- 7753 frequently to tell them you want the App Library to be GONE!
Thanks for this useful article. I am belong to the App Library hater group. I find this feature pointless and misleading. I also wished Apple would let us decide if App Library should appear at all on our interface, the same way they let us decide if an app should appear on our home screen.
App library groups is a perfect example of Apple forcing users to accept a HORRIBLE addition to their already lame UI and not providing the flexibility to turn it off or alter it. Painfully bad.
Worst idea ever, now can’t open up an app folder without bring up an app cos you touched it by mistake, my desktop was always neat and tidy all apps in folders of MY choosing, how dare they decide what I want !!!!
Reminds me of the work IT person who used to change our work screen remotely because that wasn’t the way she had her own screen grrrrrrr!
I hate the App Library. I want to organize my own way and it doesn’t include all those boxes. Like the government, you think you can tell us what is best for us
even if it isn’t. Please give us the option to take those boxes off the screen.
Just updated my iPad to 15.3 and I hate all the bull shit. Split screens, App Library and now I have a folder at the bottom on my screen where I had my email, safari and teext. How do I go back to my old settings
I used to have all my icons arranged as to how I want and use them. Now I have to spend time looking for icons I really use. You have forced Library on your users. At least allow those who do not want Library the option of switching it off.
the iPas App Library on my iPad is a total nuisance. Previously my apps were displayed and I just clicked on them. now the App Library obscures part of the visible screen and serves no useful purpose. If Apple keep bringing in apps that are functionally irrelevant and can’t be removed I may check out Windows !
I really hate the App Library at the end of the Home Screen. It’s utterly useless. Also, I would hide some apps so that my toddler son would not mess and make phone calls. But he managed to find the app and call the unsuspecting people. No thanks to the App Library.
Once again, the arrogance of Apple assumes they know better how to organise my life than I do. And like more morons who provide advice, “learn to live with it” is not helpful, it’s what a cognitive deficient person says.
Why not give it shot? Because I’m sick of Apple changing workflow and adding things to my working area without permission. They’ve been doing this junk since iTunes added shortcuts to my desktop with every update because Apple programmers were too stupid to figure out that if I wanted one on my desktop, there would already be one there.
Apple making decisions for users while simultaneously refusing to fix broken things like watches that have to be unpaired to update and iMessage failing to properly sync is exactly why my next phone won’t be one of their overpriced trash heaps.
As a company, Apple sucks. As technology, Apple is literally years behind other companies. They have rabid fanboys willing to pay thirty bucks for a screen rag and a thousand bucks for a monitor stand because Apple users are morons.
I hate the App Library andI did not ask for it! Guess I’ll have to leave Apple. This is total bullshit that I can’t delete it! I won’t recommend these phones and their practices to anyone!
i unfortunately dont like the app library. but i need to disable it…coz its very disturbing..n it feels very awkward to keep the app library. so i request apple company to bring further update to hide the app library and a main thing that i also need to hide a particular app like instagram and whatsapp….so i also request for the same
THANKS FOR MAKING THIS PHONE…IN MY EYES THIS IS THE BEST PHONE EVER USED IN MY LIFE♥️♥️
I find the App Library totally annoying, so much so I’m considering changing brands. Why do you insist on giving me something I don’t want and won’t use. I am an apple shareholder so this doubly pisses me off…!
I just scrolled down and see all negative comments about your unwanted library. Take the hint, make it a choice, I don’t like paying for things I don’t need.
I do not appreciate this feature at all.. I was finally able to hide my applications from preying eyes only for the App Library to expose all my applications by just scrolling to the left
I agree with every negative comment that’s been made about the forced upon us APP Library. I am an organized person and do not appreciate having someone else organize my private life. Please allow those who do not want, nor need, this stupid APP Library, to remove it!!!
Hate the App Library. I can organize my phone to my own specifications. Your way of thinking doesn’t necessarily work for everyone. Please let me hide it.
The App Library suddenly appears on my iPad (bottom bar with select favorites) and it is most UNWANTED!! Life was much simpler with a very reliable ANDROID PHONE that I owned before the two month ago purchase of an iPhone…that is where this App Library originated and pops up on my iPad!
Why does Apple feel they need to now run my life by telling me what it “thinks” I need, as in an “library app”!! To me the App Library IS clutter!!
HEY APPLE…ALWAYS BE COURTEOUS AND ALLOW NEW FEATURES TO BE DELETED for those of us who think it IS clutter and have no use for such…it is an eyesore at the bottom of every screen page!!!
I am 79 years old. This ap library is ridiculous. Your customers should have the ability to choose to have / use it. Why are you forcing your users to learn a new system, if they are satisfied with the one that they are now using? Is this for the customers benefit, or for some other use by apple? I am approaching purchase of another I phone. If heavy handed applications continue to be loaded and forced on me, I intend to move to google or Samsung for a new phone.
The app library is nonsense because one can organise the apps oneself in folders. And my folders are much more useful and logical than the library’s. Apple should offer the option to remove or hide the library.
Agreed with so many above!
HATE the App Library and wish it could be disabled.
It’s ugly and clunky.
It should be able to be hidden just like any other Home Screen page. Stupid it’s not.
Oh my apps sorted and in boxes on my home screen. I only have one home screen because I have combined them into these boxes. I don’t need the library I don’t like the library and I want to know how much space the library is taking up on my iPad and my iPhone. Can you help me with this?
I do not like the App Library and I don’t want it on my Phone It should be our choice if we want this one our phone I have no problem with organizing my Home Page and Do not like the way it organizes so I want it gone!!!
Wow, I’ve never met so many people that I’ve liked! Especially not at once. Apple get the eff out of my business. I don’t come to your house and arrange your drawers. Stay out of mine. I liked the way I had my folders set up and hidden, I didn’t need you lousy library. Now I have to look at your ugly and pathetic arrangement every time I open my phone, and it makes me ill.
I do not like the App Library and I don’t want it on my Phone It should be our choice if we want this one our phone I have no problem with organizing my Home Page and Do not like the way it organizes so I want it gone!!!
once again Apple has put stuff that some don’t want I would say most don’t want and you can’t get rid of it you cannot check it you can’t delete it you can’t get rid of it and that’s my major great with Apple. I think we should have control of our own content. Not Apple deciding where we want it what we like I have photos I know where I put them I don’t need Apple putting in all those other additional folders I don’t want to clutter my phone just disgusting.The other thing I don’t like the tracking app for the Covid virus that should’ve been an opt in not mandatory and you should be able to remove that. Sometimes Apple just doesn’t get it
I’ve been using folders, that I’ve organized & labeled for my use. This App Library isn’t even close to how I’ve organized my 2 pages of folders. It’s just a nuisance, and I wish I could remove it. Not everyone has messy homes screens & has to search for apps. Leave well enough alone. Stay out of my life!!!
What I liked about my first iphone was this raw but effective side. With each update, I see features appear which only brings me frustration. If it’s to end up with an iPhone that looks more and more like an Android from the 2010s, I don’t see the point in continuing to buy from them. This iPhone will be my last.
THE MESSAGE IS CLEAR APPLE. ABSOLUTELY NOBODY LIKES YOUR APP LIBRARY. PERIOD. Either give people the option to disable it and stop dictating how your customers use their hard earned Apple devices or be prepared for a mass exodus to Android. Always remember the customer is king!
the app library is fine but if someone is using my phone i dont need them to be easily able to access every app on my phone they should do a face id or pin to unlock it it just needs to be harder to access then a simple swipe and if people dont want to have that extra security they should have the option to disable it simple stop making this craph hard and make it good
The App Library is completely pointless for a large number of users and the suggestion that you can just ignore it isn’t helpful. It’s messy, it’s there and we do not want it. Apple initially allowed users to turn it off, so the functionality exists, all they need to do is restore it.
Many comments here say that you can’t delete apps from the App Library. Unfortunately, this is true, even though some will tell you it is the way to do it. Another stupid move by the engineers who think Cupertino is the center of the universe This is now the only way to delete apps in iOS 14: go to the App Store, open your account, long press the app you want to delete, and choose delete from the drop down menu. Too bad apple employees don’t scour comment sections like this one, find out how dumb they are, and do us all a favor by revealing their secrets that would make us less frustrated with their mistakes.
Seams like a lot of waisted space that I don’t have because apple keeps asking me to purchase more. Phone will not back up for months after deleting hundreds of photos that Idid not want to lose but had to make a decision to reduce costs. I should be the one to decide what block the App Library stores together. This library stores same app in double places that can’t be rearranged or deleted. I use multiple apps together when flying a drone etc.
I think this page is useless.
Hi
The app library is so bad, because my baby use my phone and i want hide some app, not with age in screen time (because we cant use screen time to hide an app, just we can hide app with age of use…
Please in last version of ios fix this problem that we can disable app library or use screen time to hide one app.
Thanks
I really dislike this being forced on me.
I like my phone just the way that I had it set up.
Very, very upsetting.
Guess my next upgrade will not be a forced application I-Phone
As a minimalist user I, too, loathe the App Library. I have all my Apps on a single page, so with the Widgets and App Library that I have two completely useless pages for every one that actually serves me, a level of redundancy that is very difficult to live with. I understand that it’s a function built for super-users (or slobs, as I like to think of them), but it’s an untidy, unhelpful arrangement that makes everything worse. I can’t understand why Apple would impose both these useless things when a simple one-off button would resolve things. Steve Jobs would have hated the App Library. It’s AWFUL.
I do not like the app library because even though i have important apps hidden from page view, a spiteful family picked up my phone, went to app library and deleted many apps…and data cannot be restored. That is why i hate the app library page. The Apple Achilles Heel. Thanks-NOT
I do not like the app library because even though i have important apps hidden from page view, a spiteful family picked up my phone, went to app library and deleted many apps…and data cannot be restored. That is why i hate the app library page. Even if you never go to it and pretend its not there- it becomes an achilles heel to anyone with an iphone. It probably takes up memory on your phone also. Some things just aren’t as good in real life- as it looks on the drawing board. Make the app library go away- if i need something can download it from app store.
Not sure how all of this works even reading thru but I wanted to learn how to turn up the sound on another IPhone8+ that isn’t ringing loud at all. How to fix it and also, how to delete apps that I don’t use permanently from my iphone
Hi, I am one of the many Iphone users who HATE your new AppLibrary. Of course it’s possible to ignore it but why not let it be a possibility you can choose or NOT choose. I and many others have easily made a personal library by connecting Apps and give a personal name to the App “folder”. The names you have given the folders with my apps are not logic. With your future IOS you must give us a possibility to hide or delete the App Library completely. Please.
Kind regards
When Library app is on your iPhone it takes up your storage space. Because you can’t Delete apps from this location. If I personally wanted to keep the app I would. But I prefer not to have all these apps on my I phones storages space. I payed for my phone. You don’t control me. If this Persist I’ll have to get a new cell phone that’s not an apply.
I hate this app library. Every time my system is updated I lose something I want and get something I don’t want. I did figure out how to get my home screen back after many frustrating days!
Please get rid of the Apple library or let the user decide what items to delete completely from the phone. This is a stupid function to not let the user/owner of the phone decide which apps to completely removed from the iPhone. I been buying Apple products since 2003 and buying iPhones since the first iPhone. It is getting old that apple seems to keep screwing up some good functions and replacing them with unacceptable options like the stupid Apple Library. Particularly the not letting the user delete things from his or hers own phone. Apple fix this fast.
So is there no way to PERMANENTLY delete an app from your iPhone now? When I try to delete an app, I click on “delete app” and it tells me it is only removing it from the Home Screen and into the App Library! I DONT WANT IT IN MY APP LIBRARY… I want it off my phone! I never thought I would leave apple products but I’m considering it bc like so many others that ave commented here, I’m sick of Apple making features I don’t like but can’t opt out of!
I discovered the only way to truly delete an app in iOS 14 is to go to the App Store, open your account, long press the app you want to delete, and choose delete from the drop down menu.
The alphabetical list already existed in settings.
This “app library” without editing mobility is another “apple is in control” not the phone owner. Chaos and mess is the biggest contribution from the “app library” …
Apps library seems shady as hell…why not allow people to permanently delete apps…I’m sure there is a reason for this that benefits big tech…give me a minute it’ll come to me…
I absolutely hate the app library. For some reason it just took some apps and put it in the library and others not. Why can we as consumers not have a choice before Apple install things on our phone with the update. Is it because we all have to have the same to make it easier for Apple to not have to service different levels of the software. Why can we not choose if we want to use all these new applications that come out with each update, why do we have to install them? Just ask the question do you want to use the app library yes or no. On no leave my screen the way it was please.
I hate when Apple introduces upgraded apps and features that you’re forced to use like the Apple Library. I am paying for my iPhone (upgrade programme payments), music subscription, and a storage plan every month. Apple is into me for a lot of money, and therefore, I should be able to decide how my phone works best. Every app and feature should come with the possibility of deleting or disabling…especially the Apple Library!
All of my home screens are visible. When Apple threw everything into the App Library, some of my apps, including Safari, disappeared from the Home Screen and can only be seen in the App Library. How can I restore these apps to the Home Screen?
I hate that Apple has decided what I should and shouldn’t get to have on my phone. I don’t want the App Library. I didn’t ask for it and I want it GONE.
I still don’t like it. It takes up space. I already have all the apps i want to use on my home screens. It is a useless item that someone thinks is so cool. They have no ideal what cool is. JUST GET RID OF IT>!!!!!!!!!!!
Now I have to add five or more Bible apps so my wife doesn’t see Tinder or my sports bet and poker apps as “Recently Added.” Shine up that “trouble ticket” real nice Apple engineers, turn it sideways and find a place for it before I do it for you.
If I’m using apps to try and cheat on my wife or gamble I don’t need them appearing at the top right of the screen of the “App Library” feature. Fix it Nerds!
The idea of an Apps Library is not without attraction. BUT the only thing about the current implementation that makes sense to me is the alphabetical list.
Who “organized” this? It’s hard to imagine anything less user-friendly than categories with their names and contents imposed by Apple’s design team with no user modification capability.
“Suggestions” for what? All of the “suggestions” apps are included elsewhere; why this redundancy?
“Recently added”? On my phone only one app in that category is less than five years old. Like the “suggestions” apps, each is included in other categories. Again, why?
“Productivity and finance” go together? Maybe for bankers or investment advisers. For most people I know, productivity would not be grouped with finance.
Of the 12 App Library categories, on my phone seven contain fewer than three apps each. Of the remaining five, one is the redundant “recently added”. And I am left guessing where most of my apps can be found. For example, to see all apps that have fallen into “productivity and finance” I must open it (amazing how it then resembles a home screen, but takes longer to get to). BTW, in my universe only five – maybe six – of the dozen apps are actually related to either productivity or finance. As I understand the current limitations of this feature, I cannot move any of them to a more suitable group. How does this improve my phone experience?
“it’s hidden; if you don’t want to use it, don’t swipe to the right of your home screens” – come on, you never accidentally swipe (or simply touch) the screen and go to an unintended place? Really? I read a lot of fiction, so my willing-suspension-of-disbelief capability is strong, but not that The idea of an Apps Library is not without attraction. BUT the only thing about the current implementation that makes sense to me is the alphabetical list.
Who “organized” this? It’s hard to imagine anything less user-friendly than categories with their names and contents imposed by Apple’s design team with no user modification capability.
“Suggestions” for what? All of the “suggestions” apps are included elsewhere; why this redundancy?
“Recently added”? On my phone only one app in that category is less than five years old. Like the “suggestions” apps, each is included in other categories. Again, why?
“Productivity and finance” go together? Maybe for bankers or investment advisers. For most people I know, productivity would not be grouped with finance.
Of the 12 App Library categories; on my phone seven contain fewer than three apps each. Of the remaining five, one is the redundant “recently added”. And I am left guessing where most of my apps can be found. For example, to see all apps that have fallen into “productivity and finance” I must open it (amazing how it then resembles a home screen, but takes longer to get to). BTW, in my universe only five – maybe six – of the dozen apps are actually related to either productivity or finance. As I understand the current limitations of this feature, I cannot move any of them to a more suitable group. How does this improve my phone experience?
“it’s hidden; if you don’t want to use it, don’t swipe to the right of your home screens” – come on, you never accidentally swipe (or simply touch) the screen and go to an unintended place? Really? I read a lot of fiction, so my willing-suspension-of-disbelief capability is strong, but not that strong. And let’s be clear: it’s “hidden” only because you’re not looking at it.
Going to the apps library accidentally would be less of an issue if it were easier to get away from it (like one simple left swipe from anywhere on the screen).
A suggestion for users: to make it a bit harder to accidentally fall into the App Library, create an additional home screen between the library and the screens you use by parking an unused app there. (There’s probably at least one Apple-provided one you never use.) Not as good as making the library go away or hide for real, but it does help me.strong. And let’s be clear: it’s “hidden” only because you’re not looking at it.
Going to the apps library accidentally would be less of an issue if it were easier to get away from it (like one simple left swipe from anywhere on the screen).
A suggestion for users: to make it a bit harder to accidentally fall into the App Library, create an additional home screen between the library and the screens you use by parking an unused app there. (There’s probably at least one Apple-provided one you never use.) Not as good as making the library go away or hide for real, but it does help me.
I had my apps organized the way I wanted. I hate the new App Library you have introduced now I have a clutter and unnecessary duplication. Please give us the option to delete the App Library.
The app library is a total waste of space and causes confusion there is a redundancy to having abs listed in two places one place is enough to find your app without having to go to the library to find it first and then switch over to the main portion it seems ridiculous
This makes no sense. I have a IPhone 12pro. I received a notice that new 14 is ready for install. Instead no issues but no App Library is on my phone. When I did his update to new 14 and he his has the 12 mini. This makes no sense. You all make these changes with no concern of some of us aren’t techies.
I think it’s terribly arrogant to tell your customers to learn to live with the app folders. My phone was already set up with folders to my liking and a system I know quite well. This is one of many iphones over the years…have my 5th ipad, apple watch, and one of several imacs. You should treat loyal customers better than this. This is America…we make personal choices…I’ll never use your big folders that hold miniature apps. Sometimes hard for older people to see. Please revise this and give the CUSTOMER a choice.
The App Library targets only few disorganised people that need somebody else to clean for them. For the rest of us, Apple already offers folders that you can name as you wish, creating your own Library.
Please, Apple, show condescension toward your users, and allow App Library to be turned off. It’s at your fingertips, one click away
Really hate the App Library. I have my phone organized already. This feature is useless and not happy that I can’t delete it. It should be up to the phone holder to be able to keep features on the phone if wanted or not, not Apple. Please get rid of it or put a feature where we can delete if we want.
Thank you
I understand the value of the App Library. I do not use it. I do not like it. It is annoying when I forget to stop swiping and reach the AL by mistake. I have all my apps categorized and grouped by type of app. All organized on three home screens. I really would like to be able to at least hide the AL screen. Someone please advise iPhone IOS developers that not all users need this feature.
Almost every single ‘update’ Apple has done since the iPhone 4 has turned the iPhone more and more into a droid. It’s terrible. And this latest App Library is just another example of a huge mistake Apple is making. It’s worthless and annoying. Whoever keeps doing this crap needs to be fired!!!
I really hate this feature and it’s more annoying that apple makes it mandatory!
I already have my apps organized I don’t need apple to help me do that. It’s my phone! Let me have control!!
Get rid of this app or make it optional. Stop trying to control users!!!
the app library is a disorganized mess apps are mixed with apps they should not be with. and there needs to be a way to disable it or make it a linked list instead of icons scrambled on a page with poor organization you cannot change.
“So if you don’t like the App Library, all you need to do is avoid swiping past your last Home screen and you can totally forget it exists.”
Nope. I have my Home Screen already organized to my liking (with folders) and don’t want any additional (and useless) home screens to accidentally swipe by. I have swiped by it enough times to not forget it exists.
Like all new features, there should always be an option to disable it. 100% of the time. Don’t force new features on people, especially when it now makes their phone less organized than before.
Yet another pointless and arrogant apple intervention that there’s no escape from. Meanwhile the development teams create more bugs with each release.
I have my icons organised into folders – a bit like the library but I control it!
I regret ever getting on the apple train to frustration and my next phone will have better hardware and a better price,
It angers me when I’m told how I must use my phone or laptop. I can appreciate that some people might find the App Library useful (although it’s already pretty easy to arrange apps on the iPhone anyway!). Just introduce this as a feature for someone to use, if the wish! Please don’t contaminate my phone – and this goes for every iPhone user that I’ve spoken to. Not one can see any use whatsoever with a library – all apps are already there on the screen; why do they need to be shown twice!? Madness! Please remove this as soon as possible OR just simply provide an option to switch it on or off. It’s just pointless….
I hate that apple sends things in updates that I DO NOT want and it can’t be deleted. Why do you think your in control of my phone? In the next update allow to delete the App Library
I hide my news apps in utilities to avoid sports results until I can watch them. I can’t remove them from full prominence in App Library. Apple, give us freedom not what you think is best for us.
App Library is the most useless thing ever made by Apple but hey, if TC likes it, keep it! For me and many, many other users just add a switch. Many thanks.
This new upgrade is awful. This library is another feature am stuck with. Same as the unnecessary adds on first page.
I forgot to unplug my phone to avoid the update. Please stop forcing us have to keep unnecessary garbage on our phones. There should be delete options.
This is horrible. My 3 year olds iPhone was nicely cleaned up and locked down and now with this update and the app library he has a ton of new non removable buttons to get into apps I don’t want him in. Apple FAIL!
App Library is totally unnecessary. I, like a lot of people, have my apps sorted into folders and when I swipe around my phone am annoyed when this page shows up. I’m used to swiping to MY last page for certain apps and App Library needs to be an option not a mandatory addition.
App Library makes me want to trade my IPhone for ANDROID phone. Just got the IPhone SE like it a lot but this Library is worthless to me and very annoying
Don’t like the app library feature. It is useless to me. If it stays and becomes a permanent fixture in iphones I will change to another phone when I upgrade next time.
App Library? Awful and pointless. The problem is: the developers have to come up with something new to justify their existence and the existence of a new phone. No point in a new phone if there isn’t something new about it, right???
If Apple organized this library in an even somewhat logical way it might be useful. What I see on my phone is a stupidly confusing jumble that just adds to the overhead bloat in their operating system. It is less than useless.
Make this optional to show the App Library! It’s useless and confusing to those of us who don’t download thousands of unnecessary apps. I have my select needed apps organized into a few pages and this is just in the way. Clearly it’s not that necessary if you can choose to NOT add new apps to it.
As usual, the software babies are adding the sweet stuff that does really nothing to software that they are allowed to rewrite. Oh to get them out of Microsoft; Apple and now they have even begun to show thier ugly head in Linux.. OMG what ever happened to I pay for it, I should have more control than those app babies floating around the ether.. Alas, go for a walk and get an old flip phone and stop doing business on the new fancy ones or PC’s that try to run and nose their way into your life.
Just my opinion, thanks
This feature is annoying me. I have my home screens organized according to my needs and my carpets made se do to those. The library is way more messier and dumb, mixing my bank app with reading apps I won’t embrace it or like it. All I want is to delete it forever. They should ask first and make it optional.
I absolutely hate the App Library. It’s immediately hating and interrupting my motion of knowing when I’m at the end of my apps. I struggle to see the differences between them and used the end of my app pages to, “know” where i am and where an app is located based on the number of swipes. Please put in a way to disable it. If i wanted my apps in boxes, i would have them in them already.
The App Library, another useless feature that we cannot delete, is most definitely not “tucked away” as I read on one of Apple’s posts. IOS 14 is a continuation of the whittling away of the usefulness of the phone, while all functionality slowly slips into the control of Apple. Sad, but true.
I really dislike the App Library. I already have my apps organized in folders, so the App Library is useless to me. Please provide option to disable/delete in next iOS update.
Just repeating what everyone else is saying: why is this mandatory?
I had to reread several of your paragraphs to even understand what problem this was solving. There are folders. Who is downloading so many apps they are unable to store them in folders that this must be required? Ugh.
The App Library is really annoying to me and most everyone I have asked about it. Those that like it should be able to keep it but those of us that really hate it should be able to delete it!
i don’t like the app library.. i wish there was a option to not have it on your home screen, i hope y’all can fix it in the next update where you can get rid of it if you don’t want it, thanks.
Everyone does not won’t the App Library. Do you care about what we want? You need to give us an option to remove the App Library or not. This is not good business. Remove the App Library or give the users the option to remove it. Simple as that.
I hate the Apple library. It doesn’t organize apps the way it should and only creates confusion.
I’ve always created my own app library by grouping icons that are related. All my apps are on one page. For those of us who are organized, we should have the option of disabling or hiding the app library. Just give us the choice.
I just love how they went from minimalist user experience to filling every aspect with so much clutter — the App Library, widgets, more things when you access to the quick menu from the top right as well as on the left-most page.
I have no idea why they decided becoming more like android and as the right idea. At least on Android, you can decide what stays ok go.
The App library isn’t an improvement. Its just anothe layer of complexity. My home screens work better than the app library.
I can’t help but think that develpers don’t get it. We don’t change around the controls to automobiles every year. We don’t change the gas inputs from a pedel to a lever. We don’t move the strearing wheel. The benefits of a new feature that replace an old feature need to be weighed against the learning cost. We have enough realy new technologies to learn. Tweaking known systems and then deleting the old way of doing it just adds to the cost without any real benefits.
Embrace a duplicate of every app that’s already neatly organised on my phone? Embrace uneditable folders with apps organised at the whim of some ADHD kid who thinks my list of contacts are ‘productivity and finance’? The only thing stupider than this stupid ‘feature’ is you trying to sell it as something to be ‘embraced’! Some ideas are just stupid from the outset. This is one of them.
I have apps like a banking app and a dating app that I want to keep hidden now its is easy to find, app library is stupid take it off, people by iphones because they dont change now you are messing with that for no reason
This App Library is a huge nightmare if you try to hide anything. Hiding the home screens? Great. Your kid swipes left? All kinds of weird stuff they don’t have business looking at. Now my wife thinks I’m a freak for my top seven apps all being hookups and porn. I request the option to modify or turn it off, please. Thank you.
Please, remove it as soon as possible. This is far away from useful feature. I like to organize my apps as I want. Please remove this! Or let us hide it!!!
Please develop a program to reverse whatever this IOS release did to install this new App Library and restore my previous home screens. I don’t need this feature and would like it reversed as soon as possible.
DO NOT LISTEN TO THE TALHA GUY!, he is giving everyone false information. If you do as he suggest you will undo all your folders and will need to reorganize your home screen
I’m really unhappy with apple messing with my phone and not giving me the option to turn changes off…I’m upgrading soon and it won’t be to another iphone – it’s my phone and I want total control of it.
Hate this new library feature.. My phone was clean and organized before, now if I swipe by mistake which is easy to do I get this stupid library feature, update immediately with a disable feature for those who don’t want or need it as I only use one page for all my apps, don’t mess with a good thing!
I have always organized my home screen by folders but kept scrolling and getting the App Library. I moved an app I don’t use to the next screen which moved the app library to another screen. At least I don’t see it any more
Already have my apps organized in their folders.. the library feature is just confusing it.. please add a feature where it can be deleted on your next software update. thanks
I don’t want someone else organizing my apps. I have them organized the way I want them to be organized and this Apple Library has no rhyme or reason as to how they are organized now. I want the ability to go back to the way I have always had my apps on my phone. We should have the OPTION as to whether or not to have it. It is more time consuming.
Apple needs to get rid of this crap. People already had the ability to create folders on their Home Screen and sort apps the way they wanted them. Now this is just extra junk to take up more memory on the phone and not needed.
The app library is covering up my desktop photo. I always swipe to an empty screen when I want to show someone this photo. It is an unnecessary feature. Those of us who like organized screens, have organized screens. I also do not need any more widgets automatically loaded. Who is the test market for these new features? it sure isn’t ordinary users. I agree with the others, allow the option to remove the display.
I really don’t want to “learn how to embrace” the App Library. If people want the option of using it, then great – give them the option to use it. BUT… give us all the OPTION to disable it.
Please let me be able to think for myself. Personally, I find this App Library quite offensive, annoying and completely pointless. I actually can’t even think of any use for it! Just please please please give me the option to either use or disable it – that’s all I ask!
I don’t like App Library at all, it would be nice if I have option to disable. I talk to many friends and many people they don’t like either. If this not resolved I would like change my device to different company.
Can’t stand it .don’t want to live with it .I don’t like the fact that anyone can see my apps in a flash .I’m seriously thinking of getting a Samsung .loved my iPhone before this daft App Library showed up NOT HAPPY AT ALL .. and you can’t even get rid of it .
Apple should have given the choice if I want to have “App Library” instead of dumping it on my iphone. Apple should implement a choice as to if I want this feature.
Totally useless don’t want it … Apple please send out another update to disable this feature. I have set up my screens as I like them and am happy that way … please like the majority GIVE us the option to keep or remove it …..
I don’t like this App Library, and should not have to keep some thing on my phone that I have no use for, looks like I will be going back to android if Apple continues to control what is on our phones
Can you make the app library a delete apps insteas hiding it. Can also delete the apps inside the library. Sometimes may not useful for that. So i change my mind to deleted the apps but i cant. May cause of bigger usage on my storage.
The App Library is awesome! Not having one is the reason I left Apple to go to Android on the first place. Who the heck wants to scroll through 10 screens to find an app. It always looked and felt horribly disorganized. I shouldn’t have to spend 30+ minutes making folders. I came back because it felt like Apple finally put their head on right. Now, I keep my notes to the left, only a battery, weather, and calendar widget on my Home Screen and use the App Library for everything else. How refreshing! If Apple were to ever get rid of it, then I would be leaving again. Why would t someone like organization? Also, you don’t have to use the library in the first place, so why is everyone upset? Don’t like it. Don’t use it.
I’ve never seen a set of reviews of anything that had such a high percentage of negatives, as in you are the 1% positive. This thing is not benign. Because of the App Library, it is IMPOSSIBLE to delete an app. So when something goes wrong with an app, and you try to delete it and reinstall it, you’re stuck.
Correction: you can delete apps. However, it cannot be done through the App Library. I discovered the only way to truly delete an app in iOS 14 is to go to the App Store, open your account, long press the app you want to delete, and choose delete from the drop down menu. Too bad the author doesn’t read the comments and supply info like this.
Absolutely HATE the new App Library … absolutely Useless and redundant. Taking up memory and space on my phone for no reason. I am researching other phones as I now HATE my IPHONE
This update was a bunch of fluff that really did very little to improve the experience FOR ME. Yes before you get your panties in a bunch I said, “for me.” iOS 13 I swiped right and I had my weather, maps, ect… iOS 14 I swipe right I have my weather, maps, ect. iOS 13 I swiped left and there were all my apps in folders named and organized how I wanted them. iOS 14 I swipe left and there are all my apps in folders named and organized how I wanted them. App library is pointless and not customizable. Then I had to spend a bunch of time putting things right like disabling PIP. Seriously, if I have to leave a video I don’t want it following me. It feels like a desperate ex girlfriend stalking you. I left the video for a reason. The most annoying thing with no fix is every time I connect to Bluetooth I get a popup on the bottom suggesting an app. I wish I waited a few updates with hopes they give more options to turn a lot of this non-sense off.
Why should I learn to live with it? I didn’t ask for it. I don’t need it and I don’t want it. How hard is it to build an option to hide or disable? I pay a premium amount to have this phone and I am forced to use it they way they want me to use it instead of the other way around. I should be able to control what I want visible. Instead Apple says here it is, its awesome and it is clearly not. Oh by the way you cant control it the way you want. Just live with it. Most people organize their phone screens the way they want anyway. Why did Apple need to organize my apps for me? It does an awful job as well. This was nothing more than a reason to give a developer something to do. And not one time during that process did someone go ‘wait maybe we should make this able to be hidden or disabled in case users don’t want it.’
I had my Home Screen totally sorted into my own alphabetical folders but stupidly I decided to try the App Library and to remove
all apps from the Home Screen. If there was a way to change the names of the App Library folders and sort them, I would stay with it but there isn’t so I’m about to start putting all my apps back into my own folders again on the Home Screen which will take me hours.
The App Library is by far one of the dumbest things Apple has created. My home screens were already organized the way I like them! The way that works & fits my life. The App Library had created categories that I, the consumer can’t customize……and it has inappropriately categorized most of my apps. The apps that I frequently use are no longer on my Home Screen. It just doesn’t make sense. The App Library should be for optional use. I absolutely despise it!
Agree with all previous comments. The “App Library” is worthless. Since it has no value Apple needs to add capability to hide or delete it. After spending 52 years as a Systems/Software Quality Assurance Engineer the first thing that is apparent is this software was designed without defining any requirements for WHAT it was supposed to do in its intended environment. It was just coded and released without any user input.
BTW, for a “large nominal feeI” would be happy to help Apple establish meaningful requirements to design against.
Yes, please give the option to HIDE AWAY OR DISABLE the APP LIBRARY sceen…
It is irritating for users whom do not want certain app to be shown at that screen…
Understand!!!
I actually took the time to read apples entire article about why we need an “App Library”. It makes no sense. Something else on my phone I don’t want or like. Your organizing is horrible and I am unable to change it. Why don’t you make it more easy for people to learn how to use their home page instead of “making” people have more crap on their phone we don’t want. Another poor move by apple.
I just got my son set up and had apps deleted and hidden in parental controls because of dangerous choices and now because of this App Library he can get to all of it. What the hell Apple? We should be able to disable it.
Why all the faded pink when I write this. It’s creepy.
Now this App Library makes me so angry. I felt insulted.
I don’t want it near my iPhone. It’s badly designed and puts apps anywhere but the right place so it is just as hard to find them on library.
I want to go back to the previous upgrade so I can get rid of it.
The App Library thing is total crap. Please have an option to remove the apps library from the home screens display and Apple should stop trying to run peoples lives.
I hate the apps library! I’ve created my own folders which make more sense then how Apple categorizes them.
Apple should give the user an option to remove Or disable the apps library.
We should have the option to disable the the App Library.
You have the option to disable the homescreen spotlight search for a particular app but this is now pointless as it is searchable in the App Library.
I use my iPhone for work a lot and tend to have it open so I can show other colleagues pics or messages or allow them to use it professionally etc.. and as such I have certain Apps that I want to hide and I can do this by hiding these apps within the folders. (You have to physically go through pages within folders to find the apps)
Now – you can just swipe to the App Library and they are visible and there is no way of hiding them.
It doesn’t make sense. Apple goes out their way and have the option to hide pages so they are not visible, but yet they still show in the App Library? What is the point..
“One of the reasons Apple introduced the App Library was because some users felt frustrated at how cluttered their Home screens had become. In previous versions of iOS, you were forced to give every app a place on one of your Home screens, leaving you with countless screens of messy apps.”
That’s BS. I organized my own home screens, so there was no clutter. Every app was in its own little section with similar apps. These feature is years to late and now is just doubling what I’ve already done and more than likely many others have probably done. This was done for the lazy.
“It’s understandable why you might want to hide or disable the App Library. But you should consider learning to embrace it instead.” ~ Does this guy work for the Apple Propaganda of Dictatorship? Why not just write “It’s understandable why you might want to hide or disable the App Library. But you should just be quiet and accept what you are given, Apple knows best for you and your life.”
The “App Library” should be named the “Half-Baked Library.” I looked at it and how it divvied up and organized my apps made such little sense that I can’t find my apps in the library.
I have carefully put my apps into relevant folders and grouped folders into relevant pages of like apps such as office, photography, travel, travel destinations, news, reading, health, games, etc. I can find my apps, even ones I rarely use in seconds. I also use a folder in the dock to have extra apps available without having to swipe to another screen.
The “App Library” is useless as far as I’m concerned, mostly because human beings are smarter than Apple’s AI and humans aren’t permitted to edit what the Apple AI decides to do with the “App Library.”
I sincerely hope that this never comes to iPad. As any sensible person would do, I have organised my apps into folders. I never lose anything. Updated my iPhone, and it’s chaos. I had a ‘Maps’ folder. For maps. Those maps are now arbitrarily spread over THREE categories (Education, Travel, Health & Fitness). I have a folder for soft synthesisers, and they’re now everywhere. Probably the dumbest idea since the removal of the headphone jack socket…
The App Library thing is total crap. So is the small banner nonsense for incoming calls. At least for the incoming calls you can put it back to be a full screen the way it was before. As far as I can see Apple has totally missed the mark with this entire IOS update. There is nothing useful in it at all. The App library is garbage, the badge notification for incoming calls is terrible and the widget thing is stupid and useless. Just let people use their phones the way they want to and stop putting this dumb useless crap on them!
What the hell is this stupid “App Library” on the right side of my Home Screens?
I got all my apps in folders, organized by type of app. Why did this non-sense on the right side show up? How do I get rid of it? This is stupid. It doesn’t look good. It makes everything unorganized. There’s just a bunch of random apps in little sections of non-sense. I don’t want my apps organized by some automatic process which has nothing to do with anything; I want my apps organized by the way that I HAVE THEM organized.
So Apple apparently finally hired some Indians to screw up everything, just like how Microsoft did the same thing with many features in Windows 10.
Great. I wonder if it really is the same Indians that Microsoft used to have. Apple apparently hired them now.
Everybody! Welcome to this great company going down the drains, just like how Microsoft went down the drains.
Phones are also used by real people that have real jobs to do, and also do not think that there way is the only way to do things, and also do not try to make all others do things the way they personally do. therefore it is extremely stupid to write new (and very confusing) ways to do things without being able to retain the way that an individual may like it.
Just think about a blind person, each day they go to the kitchen and put something in the bin – to do this they open the lower cupboard door, pull out the bin, lift the lid and insert the rubbish and put the bin back and shut the door. all learnt very well and works well. some do gooder comes along and decides to make it better (better for who) they decide that when he goes to bed the next thing he will do is come to the kitchen to go to the bin, so they change things and open the door and shif the bin out, looks good so far. but when the blind man goes to open the door it is already open so he runs into the door, falls into the bin, can’t get out and well you know the rest.
even if he survives he will not want to be told – “it is better for you, get used to it, it can’t be changed back, this progress & do it my way” all are cop-out and lack of knowing what people really want because it is mixed up with the complacency of people thinking they can do nothing about it, and therefore do not voice their disgust about. having no or even minimal complaints does not mean that people in general like it. why do you think people hate upgrading their phone operating system!
2 years ago I began using the folder option to organize my apps and I was able to label and organize according to my wishes resulting in all my apps on 1 screen. Now comes the App Library and I can’t get rid of it and Apple’s solution is that I learn to live with it. I think you he App Library is a good attempt at organization but the forced placement is disgusting. I hope that Apple allows for the opt out in 14.0.2. We should be able to decide if we want to use it.
For years now I’ve had my Apps in delegated
Folders which ” I have Named”.
I find the App Library totally unnecessary & an annoyance when when using my Apple 8 Plus since updating.
I always arranged my folders along the top of my Home Screens and Single Apps like Phone, Recorder & Flashlight on the bottom together with One Folder containing Apps for email, message, camera & settings .
I DEPLORE A APP COVERED HOME SCREEN and simply arranging Apps into Folders named to suit myself, leaves the Home Screen able to be filled with whatever Screenshot or Photo that I choose. And which I change as the mood inspires.
Currently 75 Apps are on my 5 screens. First 2 are News Apps & Weather and the following screens 3, contain the Rest.
Lot’s of Folk complement me on the look of my device, with the uncluttered look and are amazed that it is indeed an iPhone.
I started doing this on my little SE which I still keep updated _ UNTIL NOW. I intend to delete iOS 14 from it and go back to 13.7. Just to rid this App Library.
Apple Should Have Made The App Library with the ability to be HIDDEN. And if not removable should have made it the CUSTOMERS CHOICE to be able to NAME the Folders within the library.
Many thanks from the Land Down Under
John
The App library adds nothing. It’s attempt to organize my apps showed a major lack of knowledge of the most basic apps when placing them where “it wanted them to be”. Most 5th graders could do a better job. No, it does sit quietly off screen to the right. Half the time it can be easily, accidently be swiped back in. If people love it, great! But for those who dont, let us turn it off…meaning out of sight…forever.
I like how no one in the comments wants to “embrace” this crap “feature.” Dan Heyler, you should consider the audience you are targeting with you clickbait title. Did you not expect to be a top search result for people who hate this feature? I know that fanboys love everything apple, regardless if the fruit is rotten or has worms in it. Obviously your article has drawn only those that don’t like it. Telling readers to “embrace” it or just not use it seems to fuel that dislike. Can we get a thumbs down for this article?
More control you want. There are people that aren’t brainless they can think with a clear mind. This is more socialist propaganda you want to control what people do and think.
Yeah. I’m one of those people who can organize for themselves. The App Library is stupid. Especially if you have allot of apps. Default organization is as bad if not worse than no organization. I’m never going to find what I need quickly just by going to the “productivity folder” when I have literally 30+ apps I. That category. With the App Library all I gain is a screen that I keep landing on when I “accidentally” or even with intent swipe right to accomplish some other task.
Why not give it a shot? Because I want my phone setup my way, that’s obviously too much to ask of apple though, thanks for forcing something I don’t want upon me. Good business model, no wonder droid rules the market…
I already know how to organize my apps in folders. I have many apps and only two home screens. I certainly don’t need Apple to decide for me how to. So, the way it sits now – there in a option for me to let Apple control how I want to organize my apps, but no option to tell Apple I don’t want them controlling the organization of my apps. So — I want to “learn to embrace” it. I want it to go away.
I have learned how to organize my application all along – i find it frustrating i am being forced to keep the APP Library feature in IOE 14 as i find it a waste of space and do not like it. Apple should have allowed you to hide it, if not wanting us to remove it.
Why not make it an option for us rebels who don’t want to ’embrace’ that extra useless Entire page of apps.
I have my apps all lined up the way I want them, thank you very much. I don’t need Apple to sully my iPad with a useless, full-page app that I know I WILL NEVER USE.
It’s in my way and it is annoying every time I swipe too far. I look at it for approximately 0.005 seconds and swipe back. I hate it, i really do.
Hello….. kids and crazy obsessive people with access to phone with or without permission. Please allow me the responsibility to dictate my experience and have creative power over my content. How about a password protected toggle option and allow the opportunity to hide and protect app access. Why strip me of my privacy?
I don’t use it, I don’t like it, I can click on search and type 2-3 letters of the app I’m searching for and it pulls right up quickly nothing is better than that and it just makes more sense to me than using an app library, sometimes I swap to view it and I look at it but have never even wanted to use it, by default, I rather go to search and type the three letters!! Plus what they show is usually not what I’m looking for at that time so it never gets used.
I have 4 apps pages, 2 sets of 2 the same. How do I get rid of one each???? 4 apps pages id ridiculous.
I have a concern if we can download an app, why can’t it be disabled, especially the account of money we pay for service we should be able to activate and deactivate apps, my library is full and I want to clean it up, how do I delete apps that I do not want on my phone, it is cluttering up my storage, please fix this!
Far beyond useless Trash App Library is, says everyone that loves Freedom of Choice!
I don‘t need or want Tyrants doing my thinking or organizing for me. App Library is a despicable intrusion that needs to offer an Option to abort it. If you (or Apple) do not understand the importance of Options, you and they are nothing more than Tyrants, and ASAP, l will exercise my Option to trash, iPhone, and go with the many Freedom- loving alternatives that are available.
This worse than useless unremovable App Library feature interferes with normal use. It is the worst part of an iPhone. I won’t jailbreak my phone for privacy reasons. I suggest everyone call Apple Tech support (800) 692- 7753 frequently to tell them you want the App Library to be GONE!
Thanks for this useful article. I am belong to the App Library hater group. I find this feature pointless and misleading. I also wished Apple would let us decide if App Library should appear at all on our interface, the same way they let us decide if an app should appear on our home screen.
App library groups is a perfect example of Apple forcing users to accept a HORRIBLE addition to their already lame UI and not providing the flexibility to turn it off or alter it. Painfully bad.
The most unorganized infriendly app – the apple App Library!!!!!
I hate the library app. How to get rid of it?
Worst idea ever, now can’t open up an app folder without bring up an app cos you touched it by mistake, my desktop was always neat and tidy all apps in folders of MY choosing, how dare they decide what I want !!!!
Reminds me of the work IT person who used to change our work screen remotely because that wasn’t the way she had her own screen grrrrrrr!
My home screens are not messy. The app library is a duplication of the home screen and a waste of space.
Thank you, Dan! That was extremely helpful. I was so upset when the App Library changed, and your simple but clear instruction helped me a lot!
I hate the App Library. I want to organize my own way and it doesn’t include all those boxes. Like the government, you think you can tell us what is best for us
even if it isn’t. Please give us the option to take those boxes off the screen.
Just updated my iPad to 15.3 and I hate all the bull shit. Split screens, App Library and now I have a folder at the bottom on my screen where I had my email, safari and teext. How do I go back to my old settings
I REALLY dislike the App Library, recently bought a new iPhone and have no choice but to use it. Requiring its use is very paternalistic by Apple.
I used to have all my icons arranged as to how I want and use them. Now I have to spend time looking for icons I really use. You have forced Library on your users. At least allow those who do not want Library the option of switching it off.
the iPas App Library on my iPad is a total nuisance. Previously my apps were displayed and I just clicked on them. now the App Library obscures part of the visible screen and serves no useful purpose. If Apple keep bringing in apps that are functionally irrelevant and can’t be removed I may check out Windows !
I really hate the App Library at the end of the Home Screen. It’s utterly useless. Also, I would hide some apps so that my toddler son would not mess and make phone calls. But he managed to find the app and call the unsuspecting people. No thanks to the App Library.
Apparently that was a stupid idea (the App Library ) according to everyone!
Once again, the arrogance of Apple assumes they know better how to organise my life than I do. And like more morons who provide advice, “learn to live with it” is not helpful, it’s what a cognitive deficient person says.
Why not give it shot? Because I’m sick of Apple changing workflow and adding things to my working area without permission. They’ve been doing this junk since iTunes added shortcuts to my desktop with every update because Apple programmers were too stupid to figure out that if I wanted one on my desktop, there would already be one there.
Apple making decisions for users while simultaneously refusing to fix broken things like watches that have to be unpaired to update and iMessage failing to properly sync is exactly why my next phone won’t be one of their overpriced trash heaps.
As a company, Apple sucks. As technology, Apple is literally years behind other companies. They have rabid fanboys willing to pay thirty bucks for a screen rag and a thousand bucks for a monitor stand because Apple users are morons.
Can’t wait for my pixel 6 to get here.
Total BS, I DO NOT WANT THIS HOME LIBRARY APP PERIOD!!!!!!
Very intrusive like Siri telling me it is time to go to bed !!!WTF
I hate the App Library andI did not ask for it! Guess I’ll have to leave Apple. This is total bullshit that I can’t delete it! I won’t recommend these phones and their practices to anyone!
i unfortunately dont like the app library. but i need to disable it…coz its very disturbing..n it feels very awkward to keep the app library. so i request apple company to bring further update to hide the app library and a main thing that i also need to hide a particular app like instagram and whatsapp….so i also request for the same
THANKS FOR MAKING THIS PHONE…IN MY EYES THIS IS THE BEST PHONE EVER USED IN MY LIFE♥️♥️
I find the App Library totally annoying, so much so I’m considering changing brands. Why do you insist on giving me something I don’t want and won’t use. I am an apple shareholder so this doubly pisses me off…!
I just scrolled down and see all negative comments about your unwanted library. Take the hint, make it a choice, I don’t like paying for things I don’t need.
I do not appreciate this feature at all.. I was finally able to hide my applications from preying eyes only for the App Library to expose all my applications by just scrolling to the left
I agree with every negative comment that’s been made about the forced upon us APP Library. I am an organized person and do not appreciate having someone else organize my private life. Please allow those who do not want, nor need, this stupid APP Library, to remove it!!!
Hate the App Library. I can organize my phone to my own specifications. Your way of thinking doesn’t necessarily work for everyone. Please let me hide it.
The App Library suddenly appears on my iPad (bottom bar with select favorites) and it is most UNWANTED!! Life was much simpler with a very reliable ANDROID PHONE that I owned before the two month ago purchase of an iPhone…that is where this App Library originated and pops up on my iPad!
Why does Apple feel they need to now run my life by telling me what it “thinks” I need, as in an “library app”!! To me the App Library IS clutter!!
HEY APPLE…ALWAYS BE COURTEOUS AND ALLOW NEW FEATURES TO BE DELETED for those of us who think it IS clutter and have no use for such…it is an eyesore at the bottom of every screen page!!!
I am 79 years old. This ap library is ridiculous. Your customers should have the ability to choose to have / use it. Why are you forcing your users to learn a new system, if they are satisfied with the one that they are now using? Is this for the customers benefit, or for some other use by apple? I am approaching purchase of another I phone. If heavy handed applications continue to be loaded and forced on me, I intend to move to google or Samsung for a new phone.
Absolutely hate the disorganisation of App Library….someone else’s filing system never works for everyone…..get rid of it or hide it!
The app library is nonsense because one can organise the apps oneself in folders. And my folders are much more useful and logical than the library’s. Apple should offer the option to remove or hide the library.
Agreed with so many above!
HATE the App Library and wish it could be disabled.
It’s ugly and clunky.
It should be able to be hidden just like any other Home Screen page. Stupid it’s not.
Time to take a lesson from android! App library out of sight accessible at the touch of a button. And get rid of the widget page as well!
Oh my apps sorted and in boxes on my home screen. I only have one home screen because I have combined them into these boxes. I don’t need the library I don’t like the library and I want to know how much space the library is taking up on my iPad and my iPhone. Can you help me with this?
I do not like the App Library and I don’t want it on my Phone It should be our choice if we want this one our phone I have no problem with organizing my Home Page and Do not like the way it organizes so I want it gone!!!
Wow, I’ve never met so many people that I’ve liked! Especially not at once. Apple get the eff out of my business. I don’t come to your house and arrange your drawers. Stay out of mine. I liked the way I had my folders set up and hidden, I didn’t need you lousy library. Now I have to look at your ugly and pathetic arrangement every time I open my phone, and it makes me ill.
I do not like the App Library and I don’t want it on my Phone It should be our choice if we want this one our phone I have no problem with organizing my Home Page and Do not like the way it organizes so I want it gone!!!
No more iPhones for me then! If I can’t do away with this stupid library I’ll just have to do away with my iPhone
once again Apple has put stuff that some don’t want I would say most don’t want and you can’t get rid of it you cannot check it you can’t delete it you can’t get rid of it and that’s my major great with Apple. I think we should have control of our own content. Not Apple deciding where we want it what we like I have photos I know where I put them I don’t need Apple putting in all those other additional folders I don’t want to clutter my phone just disgusting.The other thing I don’t like the tracking app for the Covid virus that should’ve been an opt in not mandatory and you should be able to remove that. Sometimes Apple just doesn’t get it
Hate the App Library. Want it to go away. I like how I set up my phone not how others think I should set up my phone.
Take App Library away!!!! PLEASE!!!!!!
I’ve been using folders, that I’ve organized & labeled for my use. This App Library isn’t even close to how I’ve organized my 2 pages of folders. It’s just a nuisance, and I wish I could remove it. Not everyone has messy homes screens & has to search for apps. Leave well enough alone. Stay out of my life!!!
What I liked about my first iphone was this raw but effective side. With each update, I see features appear which only brings me frustration. If it’s to end up with an iPhone that looks more and more like an Android from the 2010s, I don’t see the point in continuing to buy from them. This iPhone will be my last.
THE MESSAGE IS CLEAR APPLE. ABSOLUTELY NOBODY LIKES YOUR APP LIBRARY. PERIOD. Either give people the option to disable it and stop dictating how your customers use their hard earned Apple devices or be prepared for a mass exodus to Android. Always remember the customer is king!
the app library is fine but if someone is using my phone i dont need them to be easily able to access every app on my phone they should do a face id or pin to unlock it it just needs to be harder to access then a simple swipe and if people dont want to have that extra security they should have the option to disable it simple stop making this craph hard and make it good
The App Library is completely pointless for a large number of users and the suggestion that you can just ignore it isn’t helpful. It’s messy, it’s there and we do not want it. Apple initially allowed users to turn it off, so the functionality exists, all they need to do is restore it.
Many comments here say that you can’t delete apps from the App Library. Unfortunately, this is true, even though some will tell you it is the way to do it. Another stupid move by the engineers who think Cupertino is the center of the universe This is now the only way to delete apps in iOS 14: go to the App Store, open your account, long press the app you want to delete, and choose delete from the drop down menu. Too bad apple employees don’t scour comment sections like this one, find out how dumb they are, and do us all a favor by revealing their secrets that would make us less frustrated with their mistakes.
Seams like a lot of waisted space that I don’t have because apple keeps asking me to purchase more. Phone will not back up for months after deleting hundreds of photos that Idid not want to lose but had to make a decision to reduce costs. I should be the one to decide what block the App Library stores together. This library stores same app in double places that can’t be rearranged or deleted. I use multiple apps together when flying a drone etc.
I think this page is useless.
Hi
The app library is so bad, because my baby use my phone and i want hide some app, not with age in screen time (because we cant use screen time to hide an app, just we can hide app with age of use…
Please in last version of ios fix this problem that we can disable app library or use screen time to hide one app.
Thanks
I hate library app! It was not actually organising apps. you can see your apps evry where! In library homescreen! Its really annoying!
Agree with all of above comments hate the App Library. Big clunky and not necessary.
It should be the users choice to have a “library “
Apple=big brother.
I really dislike this being forced on me.
I like my phone just the way that I had it set up.
Very, very upsetting.
Guess my next upgrade will not be a forced application I-Phone
As a minimalist user I, too, loathe the App Library. I have all my Apps on a single page, so with the Widgets and App Library that I have two completely useless pages for every one that actually serves me, a level of redundancy that is very difficult to live with. I understand that it’s a function built for super-users (or slobs, as I like to think of them), but it’s an untidy, unhelpful arrangement that makes everything worse. I can’t understand why Apple would impose both these useless things when a simple one-off button would resolve things. Steve Jobs would have hated the App Library. It’s AWFUL.
I loathe the new App library. It organises my Apps in an illogical and unintuitive way. It should be possible to opt out of it.
I do not like the app library because even though i have important apps hidden from page view, a spiteful family picked up my phone, went to app library and deleted many apps…and data cannot be restored. That is why i hate the app library page. The Apple Achilles Heel. Thanks-NOT
I do not like the app library because even though i have important apps hidden from page view, a spiteful family picked up my phone, went to app library and deleted many apps…and data cannot be restored. That is why i hate the app library page. Even if you never go to it and pretend its not there- it becomes an achilles heel to anyone with an iphone. It probably takes up memory on your phone also. Some things just aren’t as good in real life- as it looks on the drawing board. Make the app library go away- if i need something can download it from app store.
Not sure how all of this works even reading thru but I wanted to learn how to turn up the sound on another IPhone8+ that isn’t ringing loud at all. How to fix it and also, how to delete apps that I don’t use permanently from my iphone
Hi, I am one of the many Iphone users who HATE your new AppLibrary. Of course it’s possible to ignore it but why not let it be a possibility you can choose or NOT choose. I and many others have easily made a personal library by connecting Apps and give a personal name to the App “folder”. The names you have given the folders with my apps are not logic. With your future IOS you must give us a possibility to hide or delete the App Library completely. Please.
Kind regards
When Library app is on your iPhone it takes up your storage space. Because you can’t Delete apps from this location. If I personally wanted to keep the app I would. But I prefer not to have all these apps on my I phones storages space. I payed for my phone. You don’t control me. If this Persist I’ll have to get a new cell phone that’s not an apply.
I hate this app library. Every time my system is updated I lose something I want and get something I don’t want. I did figure out how to get my home screen back after many frustrating days!
Please get rid of the Apple library or let the user decide what items to delete completely from the phone. This is a stupid function to not let the user/owner of the phone decide which apps to completely removed from the iPhone. I been buying Apple products since 2003 and buying iPhones since the first iPhone. It is getting old that apple seems to keep screwing up some good functions and replacing them with unacceptable options like the stupid Apple Library. Particularly the not letting the user delete things from his or hers own phone. Apple fix this fast.
It really would be nice if we could get the needed upgrades without crap like the app library
So is there no way to PERMANENTLY delete an app from your iPhone now? When I try to delete an app, I click on “delete app” and it tells me it is only removing it from the Home Screen and into the App Library! I DONT WANT IT IN MY APP LIBRARY… I want it off my phone! I never thought I would leave apple products but I’m considering it bc like so many others that ave commented here, I’m sick of Apple making features I don’t like but can’t opt out of!
I discovered the only way to truly delete an app in iOS 14 is to go to the App Store, open your account, long press the app you want to delete, and choose delete from the drop down menu.
The alphabetical list already existed in settings.
This “app library” without editing mobility is another “apple is in control” not the phone owner. Chaos and mess is the biggest contribution from the “app library” …
App Library, Although new and unique would love to have the ability to arrange apps to my preference and able to disable something I did not want
Apps library seems shady as hell…why not allow people to permanently delete apps…I’m sure there is a reason for this that benefits big tech…give me a minute it’ll come to me…
I am glad to see that I am not the only one who hates library app and the ignorance that Apple in forces on its users
I absolutely hate the app library. For some reason it just took some apps and put it in the library and others not. Why can we as consumers not have a choice before Apple install things on our phone with the update. Is it because we all have to have the same to make it easier for Apple to not have to service different levels of the software. Why can we not choose if we want to use all these new applications that come out with each update, why do we have to install them? Just ask the question do you want to use the app library yes or no. On no leave my screen the way it was please.
I hate when Apple introduces upgraded apps and features that you’re forced to use like the Apple Library. I am paying for my iPhone (upgrade programme payments), music subscription, and a storage plan every month. Apple is into me for a lot of money, and therefore, I should be able to decide how my phone works best. Every app and feature should come with the possibility of deleting or disabling…especially the Apple Library!
All of my home screens are visible. When Apple threw everything into the App Library, some of my apps, including Safari, disappeared from the Home Screen and can only be seen in the App Library. How can I restore these apps to the Home Screen?
I hate that Apple has decided what I should and shouldn’t get to have on my phone. I don’t want the App Library. I didn’t ask for it and I want it GONE.
I still don’t like it. It takes up space. I already have all the apps i want to use on my home screens. It is a useless item that someone thinks is so cool. They have no ideal what cool is. JUST GET RID OF IT>!!!!!!!!!!!
Now I have to add five or more Bible apps so my wife doesn’t see Tinder or my sports bet and poker apps as “Recently Added.” Shine up that “trouble ticket” real nice Apple engineers, turn it sideways and find a place for it before I do it for you.
If I’m using apps to try and cheat on my wife or gamble I don’t need them appearing at the top right of the screen of the “App Library” feature. Fix it Nerds!
I also hate, hate, hate the library. Having Hypersensitivity it bombards my senses. Please let us disable this.
The idea of an Apps Library is not without attraction. BUT the only thing about the current implementation that makes sense to me is the alphabetical list.
Who “organized” this? It’s hard to imagine anything less user-friendly than categories with their names and contents imposed by Apple’s design team with no user modification capability.
“Suggestions” for what? All of the “suggestions” apps are included elsewhere; why this redundancy?
“Recently added”? On my phone only one app in that category is less than five years old. Like the “suggestions” apps, each is included in other categories. Again, why?
“Productivity and finance” go together? Maybe for bankers or investment advisers. For most people I know, productivity would not be grouped with finance.
Of the 12 App Library categories, on my phone seven contain fewer than three apps each. Of the remaining five, one is the redundant “recently added”. And I am left guessing where most of my apps can be found. For example, to see all apps that have fallen into “productivity and finance” I must open it (amazing how it then resembles a home screen, but takes longer to get to). BTW, in my universe only five – maybe six – of the dozen apps are actually related to either productivity or finance. As I understand the current limitations of this feature, I cannot move any of them to a more suitable group. How does this improve my phone experience?
“it’s hidden; if you don’t want to use it, don’t swipe to the right of your home screens” – come on, you never accidentally swipe (or simply touch) the screen and go to an unintended place? Really? I read a lot of fiction, so my willing-suspension-of-disbelief capability is strong, but not that The idea of an Apps Library is not without attraction. BUT the only thing about the current implementation that makes sense to me is the alphabetical list.
Who “organized” this? It’s hard to imagine anything less user-friendly than categories with their names and contents imposed by Apple’s design team with no user modification capability.
“Suggestions” for what? All of the “suggestions” apps are included elsewhere; why this redundancy?
“Recently added”? On my phone only one app in that category is less than five years old. Like the “suggestions” apps, each is included in other categories. Again, why?
“Productivity and finance” go together? Maybe for bankers or investment advisers. For most people I know, productivity would not be grouped with finance.
Of the 12 App Library categories; on my phone seven contain fewer than three apps each. Of the remaining five, one is the redundant “recently added”. And I am left guessing where most of my apps can be found. For example, to see all apps that have fallen into “productivity and finance” I must open it (amazing how it then resembles a home screen, but takes longer to get to). BTW, in my universe only five – maybe six – of the dozen apps are actually related to either productivity or finance. As I understand the current limitations of this feature, I cannot move any of them to a more suitable group. How does this improve my phone experience?
“it’s hidden; if you don’t want to use it, don’t swipe to the right of your home screens” – come on, you never accidentally swipe (or simply touch) the screen and go to an unintended place? Really? I read a lot of fiction, so my willing-suspension-of-disbelief capability is strong, but not that strong. And let’s be clear: it’s “hidden” only because you’re not looking at it.
Going to the apps library accidentally would be less of an issue if it were easier to get away from it (like one simple left swipe from anywhere on the screen).
A suggestion for users: to make it a bit harder to accidentally fall into the App Library, create an additional home screen between the library and the screens you use by parking an unused app there. (There’s probably at least one Apple-provided one you never use.) Not as good as making the library go away or hide for real, but it does help me.strong. And let’s be clear: it’s “hidden” only because you’re not looking at it.
Going to the apps library accidentally would be less of an issue if it were easier to get away from it (like one simple left swipe from anywhere on the screen).
A suggestion for users: to make it a bit harder to accidentally fall into the App Library, create an additional home screen between the library and the screens you use by parking an unused app there. (There’s probably at least one Apple-provided one you never use.) Not as good as making the library go away or hide for real, but it does help me.
I had my apps organized the way I wanted. I hate the new App Library you have introduced now I have a clutter and unnecessary duplication. Please give us the option to delete the App Library.
I also hate this feature. I swipe to this screen by accident about 20 times a day.
The ‘App Library’ is gross and domineering. The most useless add-on ever. What a gross thing that Apple has forced on their poor, loyal consumers.
The app library is a total waste of space and causes confusion there is a redundancy to having abs listed in two places one place is enough to find your app without having to go to the library to find it first and then switch over to the main portion it seems ridiculous
This makes no sense. I have a IPhone 12pro. I received a notice that new 14 is ready for install. Instead no issues but no App Library is on my phone. When I did his update to new 14 and he his has the 12 mini. This makes no sense. You all make these changes with no concern of some of us aren’t techies.
I think it’s terribly arrogant to tell your customers to learn to live with the app folders. My phone was already set up with folders to my liking and a system I know quite well. This is one of many iphones over the years…have my 5th ipad, apple watch, and one of several imacs. You should treat loyal customers better than this. This is America…we make personal choices…I’ll never use your big folders that hold miniature apps. Sometimes hard for older people to see. Please revise this and give the CUSTOMER a choice.
Another ugly, useless, ridiculous, redundant feature that justifies the jobs of some bored bunch of middle-managers.
I want it gone more than I want back the easy text editing capabilities of the first iPhone.
The App Library targets only few disorganised people that need somebody else to clean for them. For the rest of us, Apple already offers folders that you can name as you wish, creating your own Library.
Please, Apple, show condescension toward your users, and allow App Library to be turned off. It’s at your fingertips, one click away
I also hate it. Unnecessary and annoying.
Really hate the App Library. I have my phone organized already. This feature is useless and not happy that I can’t delete it. It should be up to the phone holder to be able to keep features on the phone if wanted or not, not Apple. Please get rid of it or put a feature where we can delete if we want.
Thank you
I understand the value of the App Library. I do not use it. I do not like it. It is annoying when I forget to stop swiping and reach the AL by mistake. I have all my apps categorized and grouped by type of app. All organized on three home screens. I really would like to be able to at least hide the AL screen. Someone please advise iPhone IOS developers that not all users need this feature.
Almost every single ‘update’ Apple has done since the iPhone 4 has turned the iPhone more and more into a droid. It’s terrible. And this latest App Library is just another example of a huge mistake Apple is making. It’s worthless and annoying. Whoever keeps doing this crap needs to be fired!!!
I really hate this feature and it’s more annoying that apple makes it mandatory!
I already have my apps organized I don’t need apple to help me do that. It’s my phone! Let me have control!!
Get rid of this app or make it optional. Stop trying to control users!!!
the app library is a disorganized mess apps are mixed with apps they should not be with. and there needs to be a way to disable it or make it a linked list instead of icons scrambled on a page with poor organization you cannot change.
“So if you don’t like the App Library, all you need to do is avoid swiping past your last Home screen and you can totally forget it exists.”
Nope. I have my Home Screen already organized to my liking (with folders) and don’t want any additional (and useless) home screens to accidentally swipe by. I have swiped by it enough times to not forget it exists.
Like all new features, there should always be an option to disable it. 100% of the time. Don’t force new features on people, especially when it now makes their phone less organized than before.
Yet another pointless and arrogant apple intervention that there’s no escape from. Meanwhile the development teams create more bugs with each release.
I have my icons organised into folders – a bit like the library but I control it!
I regret ever getting on the apple train to frustration and my next phone will have better hardware and a better price,
It angers me when I’m told how I must use my phone or laptop. I can appreciate that some people might find the App Library useful (although it’s already pretty easy to arrange apps on the iPhone anyway!). Just introduce this as a feature for someone to use, if the wish! Please don’t contaminate my phone – and this goes for every iPhone user that I’ve spoken to. Not one can see any use whatsoever with a library – all apps are already there on the screen; why do they need to be shown twice!? Madness! Please remove this as soon as possible OR just simply provide an option to switch it on or off. It’s just pointless….
I hate that apple sends things in updates that I DO NOT want and it can’t be deleted. Why do you think your in control of my phone? In the next update allow to delete the App Library
I hide my news apps in utilities to avoid sports results until I can watch them. I can’t remove them from full prominence in App Library. Apple, give us freedom not what you think is best for us.
Agree with everyone-hate hate the library. Let ME choose how to organize my stuff – not some programming idea
App Library is the most useless thing ever made by Apple but hey, if TC likes it, keep it! For me and many, many other users just add a switch. Many thanks.
This new upgrade is awful. This library is another feature am stuck with. Same as the unnecessary adds on first page.
I forgot to unplug my phone to avoid the update. Please stop forcing us have to keep unnecessary garbage on our phones. There should be delete options.
This is horrible. My 3 year olds iPhone was nicely cleaned up and locked down and now with this update and the app library he has a ton of new non removable buttons to get into apps I don’t want him in. Apple FAIL!
App Library is totally unnecessary. I, like a lot of people, have my apps sorted into folders and when I swipe around my phone am annoyed when this page shows up. I’m used to swiping to MY last page for certain apps and App Library needs to be an option not a mandatory addition.
I am sick and tired of all the changes apple makes to our phones. I don’t need them and I don’t want
them.
I don’t want the clutter of the App Library. Get it off of my phone
Steve Jobs never would have approved this.
App Library makes me want to trade my IPhone for ANDROID phone. Just got the IPhone SE like it a lot but this Library is worthless to me and very annoying
Don’t like the app library feature. It is useless to me. If it stays and becomes a permanent fixture in iphones I will change to another phone when I upgrade next time.
App Library? Awful and pointless. The problem is: the developers have to come up with something new to justify their existence and the existence of a new phone. No point in a new phone if there isn’t something new about it, right???
No point in having App Library. I want to arrange things in my own way. I don’t like everything in 2 place, its called clutter in my opinion.
If Apple organized this library in an even somewhat logical way it might be useful. What I see on my phone is a stupidly confusing jumble that just adds to the overhead bloat in their operating system. It is less than useless.
Make this optional to show the App Library! It’s useless and confusing to those of us who don’t download thousands of unnecessary apps. I have my select needed apps organized into a few pages and this is just in the way. Clearly it’s not that necessary if you can choose to NOT add new apps to it.
As usual, the software babies are adding the sweet stuff that does really nothing to software that they are allowed to rewrite. Oh to get them out of Microsoft; Apple and now they have even begun to show thier ugly head in Linux.. OMG what ever happened to I pay for it, I should have more control than those app babies floating around the ether.. Alas, go for a walk and get an old flip phone and stop doing business on the new fancy ones or PC’s that try to run and nose their way into your life.
Just my opinion, thanks
This feature is annoying me. I have my home screens organized according to my needs and my carpets made se do to those. The library is way more messier and dumb, mixing my bank app with reading apps I won’t embrace it or like it. All I want is to delete it forever. They should ask first and make it optional.
I absolutely hate the App Library. It’s immediately hating and interrupting my motion of knowing when I’m at the end of my apps. I struggle to see the differences between them and used the end of my app pages to, “know” where i am and where an app is located based on the number of swipes. Please put in a way to disable it. If i wanted my apps in boxes, i would have them in them already.
The App Library, another useless feature that we cannot delete, is most definitely not “tucked away” as I read on one of Apple’s posts. IOS 14 is a continuation of the whittling away of the usefulness of the phone, while all functionality slowly slips into the control of Apple. Sad, but true.
I really dislike the App Library. I already have my apps organized in folders, so the App Library is useless to me. Please provide option to disable/delete in next iOS update.
Just repeating what everyone else is saying: why is this mandatory?
I had to reread several of your paragraphs to even understand what problem this was solving. There are folders. Who is downloading so many apps they are unable to store them in folders that this must be required? Ugh.
Once again apple adding something which is unnecessary and annoy to its users.
Don’t like this new Apple Library App
The App Library is really annoying to me and most everyone I have asked about it. Those that like it should be able to keep it but those of us that really hate it should be able to delete it!
i don’t like the app library.. i wish there was a option to not have it on your home screen, i hope y’all can fix it in the next update where you can get rid of it if you don’t want it, thanks.
App Library – hate it!
Learn to embrace it? Uh, no. This is an entirely nonsensical feature that no one actually wants. They need to change this. Fast.
Everyone does not won’t the App Library. Do you care about what we want? You need to give us an option to remove the App Library or not. This is not good business. Remove the App Library or give the users the option to remove it. Simple as that.
I hate the Apple library. It doesn’t organize apps the way it should and only creates confusion.
I’ve always created my own app library by grouping icons that are related. All my apps are on one page. For those of us who are organized, we should have the option of disabling or hiding the app library. Just give us the choice.
I just love how they went from minimalist user experience to filling every aspect with so much clutter — the App Library, widgets, more things when you access to the quick menu from the top right as well as on the left-most page.
I have no idea why they decided becoming more like android and as the right idea. At least on Android, you can decide what stays ok go.
The App library isn’t an improvement. Its just anothe layer of complexity. My home screens work better than the app library.
I can’t help but think that develpers don’t get it. We don’t change around the controls to automobiles every year. We don’t change the gas inputs from a pedel to a lever. We don’t move the strearing wheel. The benefits of a new feature that replace an old feature need to be weighed against the learning cost. We have enough realy new technologies to learn. Tweaking known systems and then deleting the old way of doing it just adds to the cost without any real benefits.
App Library sucks I don’t want it. Next update if it’s not and option to remove it I’m done with Apple products
Embrace a duplicate of every app that’s already neatly organised on my phone? Embrace uneditable folders with apps organised at the whim of some ADHD kid who thinks my list of contacts are ‘productivity and finance’? The only thing stupider than this stupid ‘feature’ is you trying to sell it as something to be ‘embraced’! Some ideas are just stupid from the outset. This is one of them.
I have apps like a banking app and a dating app that I want to keep hidden now its is easy to find, app library is stupid take it off, people by iphones because they dont change now you are messing with that for no reason
This App Library is a huge nightmare if you try to hide anything. Hiding the home screens? Great. Your kid swipes left? All kinds of weird stuff they don’t have business looking at. Now my wife thinks I’m a freak for my top seven apps all being hookups and porn. I request the option to modify or turn it off, please. Thank you.
Please, remove it as soon as possible. This is far away from useful feature. I like to organize my apps as I want. Please remove this! Or let us hide it!!!
Give us the option to use App Library or Disable it.
Please develop a program to reverse whatever this IOS release did to install this new App Library and restore my previous home screens. I don’t need this feature and would like it reversed as soon as possible.
DO NOT LISTEN TO THE TALHA GUY!, he is giving everyone false information. If you do as he suggest you will undo all your folders and will need to reorganize your home screen
I’m really unhappy with apple messing with my phone and not giving me the option to turn changes off…I’m upgrading soon and it won’t be to another iphone – it’s my phone and I want total control of it.
Hate this new library feature.. My phone was clean and organized before, now if I swipe by mistake which is easy to do I get this stupid library feature, update immediately with a disable feature for those who don’t want or need it as I only use one page for all my apps, don’t mess with a good thing!
I have always organized my home screen by folders but kept scrolling and getting the App Library. I moved an app I don’t use to the next screen which moved the app library to another screen. At least I don’t see it any more
Already have my apps organized in their folders.. the library feature is just confusing it.. please add a feature where it can be deleted on your next software update. thanks
I don’t want someone else organizing my apps. I have them organized the way I want them to be organized and this Apple Library has no rhyme or reason as to how they are organized now. I want the ability to go back to the way I have always had my apps on my phone. We should have the OPTION as to whether or not to have it. It is more time consuming.
Apple needs to get rid of this crap. People already had the ability to create folders on their Home Screen and sort apps the way they wanted them. Now this is just extra junk to take up more memory on the phone and not needed.
I don’t like this additional library screen. I only use 1 screen with folders and do not want this feature. stupid
I am not a fan of the App Library. I find it to be a needless distraction and there should be an option to hide it.
The app library is covering up my desktop photo. I always swipe to an empty screen when I want to show someone this photo. It is an unnecessary feature. Those of us who like organized screens, have organized screens. I also do not need any more widgets automatically loaded. Who is the test market for these new features? it sure isn’t ordinary users. I agree with the others, allow the option to remove the display.
Thank you so much, after iOS 14.1 was installed two of my home screen disappeared and you showed me how to get them back. Thanks
I really don’t want to “learn how to embrace” the App Library. If people want the option of using it, then great – give them the option to use it. BUT… give us all the OPTION to disable it.
Please let me be able to think for myself. Personally, I find this App Library quite offensive, annoying and completely pointless. I actually can’t even think of any use for it! Just please please please give me the option to either use or disable it – that’s all I ask!
I don’t like App Library at all, it would be nice if I have option to disable. I talk to many friends and many people they don’t like either. If this not resolved I would like change my device to different company.
Can’t stand it .don’t want to live with it .I don’t like the fact that anyone can see my apps in a flash .I’m seriously thinking of getting a Samsung .loved my iPhone before this daft App Library showed up NOT HAPPY AT ALL .. and you can’t even get rid of it .
I hate the apps library, it’s useless and I have no need for it please redo it and give us the option to delete or hide it.
App library useless and irritating…
Apple should have given the choice if I want to have “App Library” instead of dumping it on my iphone. Apple should implement a choice as to if I want this feature.
App Library is totally useless and hogging up space. I don’t understand why anyone would want this on their phone.
You can delete App Library option by simply taping on “reset Home Screen layout” in general – reset – reset Home Screen layout
that did not work, now i have to reset all my home screen!
that doesnt seem to work
Totally useless don’t want it … Apple please send out another update to disable this feature. I have set up my screens as I like them and am happy that way … please like the majority GIVE us the option to keep or remove it …..
Total POS that I had to spend an hour figuring out how to rearrange my phone I’m always hesitant to upgrade my phone and here’s a reason why.
I don’t like this App Library, and should not have to keep some thing on my phone that I have no use for, looks like I will be going back to android if Apple continues to control what is on our phones
Can you make the app library a delete apps insteas hiding it. Can also delete the apps inside the library. Sometimes may not useful for that. So i change my mind to deleted the apps but i cant. May cause of bigger usage on my storage.
I do not want the library where anyone who picks up my phone before the screen locks can find all of my financial apps in a flash.
The App Library is awesome! Not having one is the reason I left Apple to go to Android on the first place. Who the heck wants to scroll through 10 screens to find an app. It always looked and felt horribly disorganized. I shouldn’t have to spend 30+ minutes making folders. I came back because it felt like Apple finally put their head on right. Now, I keep my notes to the left, only a battery, weather, and calendar widget on my Home Screen and use the App Library for everything else. How refreshing! If Apple were to ever get rid of it, then I would be leaving again. Why would t someone like organization? Also, you don’t have to use the library in the first place, so why is everyone upset? Don’t like it. Don’t use it.
I’ve never seen a set of reviews of anything that had such a high percentage of negatives, as in you are the 1% positive. This thing is not benign. Because of the App Library, it is IMPOSSIBLE to delete an app. So when something goes wrong with an app, and you try to delete it and reinstall it, you’re stuck.
Correction: you can delete apps. However, it cannot be done through the App Library. I discovered the only way to truly delete an app in iOS 14 is to go to the App Store, open your account, long press the app you want to delete, and choose delete from the drop down menu. Too bad the author doesn’t read the comments and supply info like this.
Absolutely HATE the new App Library … absolutely Useless and redundant. Taking up memory and space on my phone for no reason. I am researching other phones as I now HATE my IPHONE
This update was a bunch of fluff that really did very little to improve the experience FOR ME. Yes before you get your panties in a bunch I said, “for me.” iOS 13 I swiped right and I had my weather, maps, ect… iOS 14 I swipe right I have my weather, maps, ect. iOS 13 I swiped left and there were all my apps in folders named and organized how I wanted them. iOS 14 I swipe left and there are all my apps in folders named and organized how I wanted them. App library is pointless and not customizable. Then I had to spend a bunch of time putting things right like disabling PIP. Seriously, if I have to leave a video I don’t want it following me. It feels like a desperate ex girlfriend stalking you. I left the video for a reason. The most annoying thing with no fix is every time I connect to Bluetooth I get a popup on the bottom suggesting an app. I wish I waited a few updates with hopes they give more options to turn a lot of this non-sense off.
Why should I learn to live with it? I didn’t ask for it. I don’t need it and I don’t want it. How hard is it to build an option to hide or disable? I pay a premium amount to have this phone and I am forced to use it they way they want me to use it instead of the other way around. I should be able to control what I want visible. Instead Apple says here it is, its awesome and it is clearly not. Oh by the way you cant control it the way you want. Just live with it. Most people organize their phone screens the way they want anyway. Why did Apple need to organize my apps for me? It does an awful job as well. This was nothing more than a reason to give a developer something to do. And not one time during that process did someone go ‘wait maybe we should make this able to be hidden or disabled in case users don’t want it.’
I had my Home Screen totally sorted into my own alphabetical folders but stupidly I decided to try the App Library and to remove
all apps from the Home Screen. If there was a way to change the names of the App Library folders and sort them, I would stay with it but there isn’t so I’m about to start putting all my apps back into my own folders again on the Home Screen which will take me hours.
The App Library is by far one of the dumbest things Apple has created. My home screens were already organized the way I like them! The way that works & fits my life. The App Library had created categories that I, the consumer can’t customize……and it has inappropriately categorized most of my apps. The apps that I frequently use are no longer on my Home Screen. It just doesn’t make sense. The App Library should be for optional use. I absolutely despise it!
Agree with all previous comments. The “App Library” is worthless. Since it has no value Apple needs to add capability to hide or delete it. After spending 52 years as a Systems/Software Quality Assurance Engineer the first thing that is apparent is this software was designed without defining any requirements for WHAT it was supposed to do in its intended environment. It was just coded and released without any user input.
BTW, for a “large nominal feeI” would be happy to help Apple establish meaningful requirements to design against.
Yes, please give the option to HIDE AWAY OR DISABLE the APP LIBRARY sceen…
It is irritating for users whom do not want certain app to be shown at that screen…
Understand!!!
Thanks guys you saved my life :))))
Dear Apple,
Please stop force-feeding us stupid stuff we do not want!!!!!!!
Invent all the features you desire, BUT GIVE US CHOICE!!!!!!!!!!!
This App Library is junk. Please delete it!
I actually took the time to read apples entire article about why we need an “App Library”. It makes no sense. Something else on my phone I don’t want or like. Your organizing is horrible and I am unable to change it. Why don’t you make it more easy for people to learn how to use their home page instead of “making” people have more crap on their phone we don’t want. Another poor move by apple.
I just got my son set up and had apps deleted and hidden in parental controls because of dangerous choices and now because of this App Library he can get to all of it. What the hell Apple? We should be able to disable it.
Why all the faded pink when I write this. It’s creepy.
Now this App Library makes me so angry. I felt insulted.
I don’t want it near my iPhone. It’s badly designed and puts apps anywhere but the right place so it is just as hard to find them on library.
I want to go back to the previous upgrade so I can get rid of it.
The App Library thing is total crap. Please have an option to remove the apps library from the home screens display and Apple should stop trying to run peoples lives.
I hate the apps library! I’ve created my own folders which make more sense then how Apple categorizes them.
Apple should give the user an option to remove Or disable the apps library.
We should have the option to disable the the App Library.
You have the option to disable the homescreen spotlight search for a particular app but this is now pointless as it is searchable in the App Library.
I use my iPhone for work a lot and tend to have it open so I can show other colleagues pics or messages or allow them to use it professionally etc.. and as such I have certain Apps that I want to hide and I can do this by hiding these apps within the folders. (You have to physically go through pages within folders to find the apps)
Now – you can just swipe to the App Library and they are visible and there is no way of hiding them.
It doesn’t make sense. Apple goes out their way and have the option to hide pages so they are not visible, but yet they still show in the App Library? What is the point..
Come on man.
People who click on your link are obviously looking to hide or disable this feature being shoved down our throats.
To end your article with “There’s a lot to like about the App Library, so why not give it a shot?” is just a cop out.
Don’t play the part of a patsy
I am sorry but I am not fond of “App Library” because it intrude my privacy. I wish there was a way to get rid of it. It’s very annoying.
apple should let the customer hide app library if they find it annoying. That’s what we pay for – having options
“One of the reasons Apple introduced the App Library was because some users felt frustrated at how cluttered their Home screens had become. In previous versions of iOS, you were forced to give every app a place on one of your Home screens, leaving you with countless screens of messy apps.”
That’s BS. I organized my own home screens, so there was no clutter. Every app was in its own little section with similar apps. These feature is years to late and now is just doubling what I’ve already done and more than likely many others have probably done. This was done for the lazy.
“It’s understandable why you might want to hide or disable the App Library. But you should consider learning to embrace it instead.” ~ Does this guy work for the Apple Propaganda of Dictatorship? Why not just write “It’s understandable why you might want to hide or disable the App Library. But you should just be quiet and accept what you are given, Apple knows best for you and your life.”
There should be an option to remove the apps library from the home screens display. It’s a bloody nuisance and has no benefit in being there.
Totally agree
Apple?Don’t make me go back to Android because of this annoying movement.Make an option to disable App Gallery like you to with Memoji’s
The “App Library” should be named the “Half-Baked Library.” I looked at it and how it divvied up and organized my apps made such little sense that I can’t find my apps in the library.
I have carefully put my apps into relevant folders and grouped folders into relevant pages of like apps such as office, photography, travel, travel destinations, news, reading, health, games, etc. I can find my apps, even ones I rarely use in seconds. I also use a folder in the dock to have extra apps available without having to swipe to another screen.
The “App Library” is useless as far as I’m concerned, mostly because human beings are smarter than Apple’s AI and humans aren’t permitted to edit what the Apple AI decides to do with the “App Library.”
I sincerely hope that this never comes to iPad. As any sensible person would do, I have organised my apps into folders. I never lose anything. Updated my iPhone, and it’s chaos. I had a ‘Maps’ folder. For maps. Those maps are now arbitrarily spread over THREE categories (Education, Travel, Health & Fitness). I have a folder for soft synthesisers, and they’re now everywhere. Probably the dumbest idea since the removal of the headphone jack socket…
What’s wrong with using folders on a Home page to cluster relevant, but little used Apps?
The Library appears to replicate the icons in its own order.
The App Library thing is total crap. So is the small banner nonsense for incoming calls. At least for the incoming calls you can put it back to be a full screen the way it was before. As far as I can see Apple has totally missed the mark with this entire IOS update. There is nothing useful in it at all. The App library is garbage, the badge notification for incoming calls is terrible and the widget thing is stupid and useless. Just let people use their phones the way they want to and stop putting this dumb useless crap on them!
What the hell is this stupid “App Library” on the right side of my Home Screens?
I got all my apps in folders, organized by type of app. Why did this non-sense on the right side show up? How do I get rid of it? This is stupid. It doesn’t look good. It makes everything unorganized. There’s just a bunch of random apps in little sections of non-sense. I don’t want my apps organized by some automatic process which has nothing to do with anything; I want my apps organized by the way that I HAVE THEM organized.
So Apple apparently finally hired some Indians to screw up everything, just like how Microsoft did the same thing with many features in Windows 10.
Great. I wonder if it really is the same Indians that Microsoft used to have. Apple apparently hired them now.
Everybody! Welcome to this great company going down the drains, just like how Microsoft went down the drains.
Phones are also used by real people that have real jobs to do, and also do not think that there way is the only way to do things, and also do not try to make all others do things the way they personally do. therefore it is extremely stupid to write new (and very confusing) ways to do things without being able to retain the way that an individual may like it.
Just think about a blind person, each day they go to the kitchen and put something in the bin – to do this they open the lower cupboard door, pull out the bin, lift the lid and insert the rubbish and put the bin back and shut the door. all learnt very well and works well. some do gooder comes along and decides to make it better (better for who) they decide that when he goes to bed the next thing he will do is come to the kitchen to go to the bin, so they change things and open the door and shif the bin out, looks good so far. but when the blind man goes to open the door it is already open so he runs into the door, falls into the bin, can’t get out and well you know the rest.
even if he survives he will not want to be told – “it is better for you, get used to it, it can’t be changed back, this progress & do it my way” all are cop-out and lack of knowing what people really want because it is mixed up with the complacency of people thinking they can do nothing about it, and therefore do not voice their disgust about. having no or even minimal complaints does not mean that people in general like it. why do you think people hate upgrading their phone operating system!
This is a pointless feature, and the style doesn’t even fit the rest of the OS so it looks like an ugly afterthought.
e.g. the search box at the top of the library view is twice the size of the normal search (if I swipe down on the main home screen).
Why? Is the app library intended for people with poor eyesight?
Yep!
App Library sucks!
Time to bring back the witch trials!
2 years ago I began using the folder option to organize my apps and I was able to label and organize according to my wishes resulting in all my apps on 1 screen. Now comes the App Library and I can’t get rid of it and Apple’s solution is that I learn to live with it. I think you he App Library is a good attempt at organization but the forced placement is disgusting. I hope that Apple allows for the opt out in 14.0.2. We should be able to decide if we want to use it.
Your missing the point. It should be optional not manadatory.
App Library such sucks I want to delete it.
For years now I’ve had my Apps in delegated
Folders which ” I have Named”.
I find the App Library totally unnecessary & an annoyance when when using my Apple 8 Plus since updating.
I always arranged my folders along the top of my Home Screens and Single Apps like Phone, Recorder & Flashlight on the bottom together with One Folder containing Apps for email, message, camera & settings .
I DEPLORE A APP COVERED HOME SCREEN and simply arranging Apps into Folders named to suit myself, leaves the Home Screen able to be filled with whatever Screenshot or Photo that I choose. And which I change as the mood inspires.
Currently 75 Apps are on my 5 screens. First 2 are News Apps & Weather and the following screens 3, contain the Rest.
Lot’s of Folk complement me on the look of my device, with the uncluttered look and are amazed that it is indeed an iPhone.
I started doing this on my little SE which I still keep updated _ UNTIL NOW. I intend to delete iOS 14 from it and go back to 13.7. Just to rid this App Library.
Apple Should Have Made The App Library with the ability to be HIDDEN. And if not removable should have made it the CUSTOMERS CHOICE to be able to NAME the Folders within the library.
Many thanks from the Land Down Under
John
I am dumping all my Apple stock after Ios14. Libraries went by the wayside in early 2000’s. Lets keep it that way clowns
The App library adds nothing. It’s attempt to organize my apps showed a major lack of knowledge of the most basic apps when placing them where “it wanted them to be”. Most 5th graders could do a better job. No, it does sit quietly off screen to the right. Half the time it can be easily, accidently be swiped back in. If people love it, great! But for those who dont, let us turn it off…meaning out of sight…forever.
I like how no one in the comments wants to “embrace” this crap “feature.” Dan Heyler, you should consider the audience you are targeting with you clickbait title. Did you not expect to be a top search result for people who hate this feature? I know that fanboys love everything apple, regardless if the fruit is rotten or has worms in it. Obviously your article has drawn only those that don’t like it. Telling readers to “embrace” it or just not use it seems to fuel that dislike. Can we get a thumbs down for this article?
So Apple thinks I’m too stupid to create folders. Sheesh.
More control you want. There are people that aren’t brainless they can think with a clear mind. This is more socialist propaganda you want to control what people do and think.
Burn the idiot that came up with the idear to add that app library, delete that put of my ios!
Yeah. I’m one of those people who can organize for themselves. The App Library is stupid. Especially if you have allot of apps. Default organization is as bad if not worse than no organization. I’m never going to find what I need quickly just by going to the “productivity folder” when I have literally 30+ apps I. That category. With the App Library all I gain is a screen that I keep landing on when I “accidentally” or even with intent swipe right to accomplish some other task.
It feels like apple is trying to tell me they are better are organizing my things than me.
Not the case and even more annoying is they are requiring it be on the phone.
This is a much more cumbersome form of Spot light. Not a fan
Why not give it a shot? Because I want my phone setup my way, that’s obviously too much to ask of apple though, thanks for forcing something I don’t want upon me. Good business model, no wonder droid rules the market…
It wasn’t very smart about where it chose to place the apps. They are in inappropriate folders in many cases.
I already know how to organize my apps in folders. I have many apps and only two home screens. I certainly don’t need Apple to decide for me how to. So, the way it sits now – there in a option for me to let Apple control how I want to organize my apps, but no option to tell Apple I don’t want them controlling the organization of my apps. So — I want to “learn to embrace” it. I want it to go away.
I have learned how to organize my application all along – i find it frustrating i am being forced to keep the APP Library feature in IOE 14 as i find it a waste of space and do not like it. Apple should have allowed you to hide it, if not wanting us to remove it.
More RESEARCH should have been done.
A very dissatisfied apple supporter.
I like the way I have organized my home screens. I don’t want them changed. How do I stop them from changing with ios14?
I want it gone.