Cool trick to organize your iOS Home screen icons

I find it always a real pain to arrange all the app icons on the different home screens of my iPhone or iPad. In particular it isn't very easy to move apps to a different page especially if they have to be moved to a far away screen. To make matters worse on their way to their final destination the icon order of in between pages is affected as well.

But here is a cool little trick which makes the icon move a lot easier. The basic idea is to use a temporary folder which is placed on the quick bar at the bottom:

Step 1 - Create a temporary folder (or take an existing one) put it on the quick bar




Step 2 - Put it on the quick bar and move to the page with the app you want to move




Step 3 - Move the icon into the temp folder






Step 4 - Go to the page where you want to place the app




Step 5 - Open the temp folder




Step 6 - Move the icon from the tempo folder on to its spot on the page






Last Step - Press home and you are done or go back to step 2 to move another app




Of course there is no need to move the apps one by one this way. For mass editing you can collect all apps from different pages before you drop them off on their new home.