The App Library is pretty good, and I’ll probably take the time to hide all the non-essential app icons that are not taking up valuable on-screen real estate at some point. It’s a dumb extra step, but it can be made a bit more seamless going forward by another new Android-inspired feature that lets you configure if newly-installed apps even appear on the home screen in the first place. So they’ll still appear in the App Library, but not on any home screen page.
But Apple users can better approximate this useful interface by hiding app icons from the home screen. Why not just have a real All Apps screen? It’s a good question. Available to the far right of the right-most home screen, the All Apps screen automatically organizes all of the apps on your handset into very large folders. But with iOS 14, Apple is adding something called the App Library that acts as a sort of a poor man’s All Apps screen (like we see in Android). Home screen folders still exist, of course, as does the ability to create multiple home screen pages. With this release, iOS 14 is evolving further to better address the underlying need of each feature/ So I’m going to focus only on that here.Īs you may know, Apple slowly evolved the home screen interface in previous iOS releases to address the explosion of available apps with folders, and it added a feed to the left of the left-most home screen that contained widgets. There’s a lot going on here, but the biggest changes in iOS 14 are arguably related to the home screen, which is the previously static interface that Apple’s customers use to launch apps. But in bringing widgets to the Home screen and expanding their capabilities to include multiple sizes, Apple has, sort of, brought that feature that Windows phone users still lament to its flagship mobile platform.
#DROPSYNC FOR IPAD INSTALL#
OK, I wasn’t going to install iOS 14 this quickly.