How To Use Folders on the iPhone 4

Having a lot of apps on your iPhone home screen can create a cluttered appearance and make for cumbersome and confusing navigation. Fortunately, with the iPhone 4 and its use of the iOS 4.0, apps can now be grouped together under a single icon on your home screen. This creates the organizational functionality of a folder, permitting users to organize their apps as they deem fit, saving space on their home screens in the process. This page will provide you with information on how to use folders on the iPhone 4.

To create a folder on the iPhone 4, you must first enter editing mode on the home screen. To accomplish this, tap and hold an icon until it starts to display a shaking motion and the delete option is habilitated in the upper left hand corner of the app. Then, simply drag the selected app over to another app that you wish to include in a single folder. Upon doing this, a folder will display on the screen containing both apps.

You may repeat this process, dragging apps over to the newly created folder, until the folder is filled. Each folder will hold a maximum of 12 apps. To select the position that each app will have within its folder, simply hold the app over the folder until the folder opens. Once open, you may drag the app into the position that you wish it to have.

When you have finished creating folders and arranging the apps within them, leave edit mode by pressing the "home" button.

Once a folder is created, it will by default have the name of the first app that was dragged into it. To change the name of the folder, enter edit mode as described in step one, and tap the folder name. This will activate the touch keyboard, with which you may change the name of the folder.

You may also rearrange the position of the apps within each folder at anytime. To remove a particular app from a folder, simply drag it out of the folder onto an empty area of the home screen. If you prefer to delete an app altogether, select the delete button on the upper left hand portion of the app.

Folders on the iPhone do not have delete buttons the way that apps do. To delete a folder you must enter edit mode and either drag out or delete all of the apps housed in that folder. Upon doing so, the folder will be automatically deleted.

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