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After getting my iPhone screens the way I want them, I just noticed that everything has shifted over by one...screwing up my order. I'm looking for what new app made its way to my phone and see something called Freeform. It may be the best app ever, but damn it, if I want it I'll download it. And if it's going to automatically download, shouldn't it put it as the last app installed on the last page!? Instead, it seems to have arbitrarily thrown it in the middle of the second page of my icons.
Why can't I just lock the positions of the icons on the screens? Grrrrr.
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I'm sorry Dave. I'm afraid i can't do that.
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Not being able to lock icons in place or easily reorder their locations is a huge, continual problem.
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That’s Apple speak for “you have too many apps, why don’t you try folders?”.
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After getting my iPhone screens the way I want them, I just noticed that everything has shifted over by one...screwing up my order. I'm looking for what new app made its way to my phone and see something called Freeform. It may be the best app ever, but damn it, if I want it I'll download it. And if it's going to automatically download, shouldn't it put it as the last app installed on the last page!? Instead, it seems to have arbitrarily thrown it in the middle of the second page of my icons.
Why can't I just lock the positions of the icons on the screens? Grrrrr.
Isn't that an app new to iOS 16? I think it's from Apple. No idea why it ended up where it did on your phone. I don't recall it doing anything similar on my iPad. I moved it to the last screen where apps from Apple that I never use end up.
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Shouldn't have ended up in the middle of the second page.
Should have ended up at the bottom of the second page.
Yeah, it's from Apple. It a shared "whiteboard" app. Not sure why people at Apple think it's so hot that it should be bundled. It's very difficult to make anything look half-decent in that app, especially on the smaller screen of an iPhone with a finger vs an iPad Pro with an Apple Pencil. And there are at least a half dozen shared whiteboard apps with much more mature and useful interfaces.
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Shouldn't have ended up in the middle of the second page.
Should have ended up at the bottom of the second page.
Yeah, it's from Apple. It a shared "whiteboard" app. Not sure why people at Apple think it's so hot that it should be bundled. It's very difficult to make anything look half-decent in that app, especially on the smaller screen of an iPhone with a finger vs an iPad Pro with an Apple Pencil. And there are at least a half dozen shared whiteboard apps with much more mature and useful interfaces.
I saw it on my iPhone after upgrading from iOS 15.7. At first I thought it came from having an app of the same name downloaded to my iPad and Apple TV. Not the greatest choice to name an Apple app since the Freeform channel has been in existence since 2018 and using that name for its app for years.
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Yeah, I've learned it was part of the iOS 16 Update. Another reason I should have waited.
Not being able to lock icons in place or easily reorder their locations is a huge, continual problem.
And you'd think it would be easy enough to fix (if they wanted to).
That’s Apple speak for “you have too many apps, why don’t you try folders?”.
Well, they got part of their wish. It's now living in a folder I created a while ago called Unused Apple Apps.
Not the greatest choice to name an Apple app since the Freeform channel has been in existence since 2018 and using that name for its app for years.
Yeah, when I asked my daughter if she knew what it was she mentioned something about some channel. She's still on iOS 15 something.
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Well, they got part of their wish. It's now living in a folder I created a while ago called Unused Apple Apps.
You might check that folder to see if the apps are actually in it.
Back around iOS 11/12, Apple started off-loading seldom used apps.
This is supposed to be a space-saving feature, when Apple thinks you have too much on your phone.
It was enabled by default on my 'Phone, and when wanting to use on of those apps, I had to wait for it to be downloaded.
FWP, I know, but with my poor WiFi and cellular throughput (worse than WiF) that takes awhile except for the very smallest apps or updates.
Interestingly, unlike manually deleting an app, all it's data is still in place, so the 'space saving' can be somewhat minimal.
If an off loaded app is removed from the App Store, or a new version does something one don't like, it's OOL time, that app may never be coming back.
If one needs an offloaded app but has no WiFi, it might be too big for cellular download, again OOL.
So it may be wise to disable Offload Unused Apps:
Settings > App Store > Offload Unused Apps
I have that and Automatic Downloads disabled, but that won't help with an upgrade slips in a new app Apple thinks one needs.
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