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Tip for scrolling through all those iPhone Application icons

Sunday, July 13th, 2008
by lepton

So, your iPhone has that new App Store icon, and you’ve been loading it up with all those great new applications - so many applications that your home screen now has several pages full of icons. Here is a tip to help you scroll through them.

Most of us know we can move from one page of icons to the next by “flicking” a finger to the right or left to move from one page of icons to an adjacent one. But another way to move to the next page is to tap on the page indicator itself. The page indicator is that row of dots at the bottom of the screen that shows how many pages of icons you have.

Tap on the dots, and the iPhone will scroll to the adjacent page. You can tap on the right side of the dots to scroll to the next page, or the left side to scroll to the previous page.

This tip is especially useful while you are rearranging icons, because flicking pages, while it does work, is harder since if you don’t do it exactly right, might rearrange the icons instead of moving to the next page.

Do you know you can rearrange the icons on your Home screen? To do that, simply touch any icon and keep your finger on it for a couple of seconds until all the icons begin to wiggle. Now you can simply drag the wiggling icons around the way you want them. You can move an icon from one page to the next by dragging it off the right or left edge of the screen. You can also delete certain icons by tapping the little “X” that appears on them. And to move from one page to another, try the tap-the-dots tip! When it’s all the way you like it, touch the Home button to stop the wiggling and lock everything into their new places. Have fun!

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