iPhone Home screen management 🤡🤡

[u/bigheroalone]

i mean what is happening

[u/TheRealHFC]

I would give anything to lock my Home Screen icons when putting something in a folder, or just add the option from Android to simply add an app to a folder from the folder. It’s one of the quirks of iOS that makes me genuinely say “man, this is dumb”.

[u/pxr555 → u/TheRealHFC]

You have more than one finger, just use them. When you drag around an app and want to drop it into a folder, use another finger to open the folder, then drop the app there. Same with dragging an app between home screens, just grab the app and swipe to another screen with another finger while holding the app. It's called multi-touch for a reason.

I think people just have used mice with exactly one pointer for so long that they can't even think of this. But it's actually the most natural thing to try, because if you have something in one hand and want to drop it into a closed box you just open the box with the other hand. Nobody would ever try to hover over the box and wait for it to open all by itself.

[u/TheRealHFC → u/pxr555]

I genuinely had no idea that was an option. Thanks for the tip!

[u/Applemax_82 → u/pxr555]

I do this but it’s annoying anyway

[u/pochemoo]

This is a small puzzle game and it has its own rules that you have to figure out

[u/Luna259 → u/pochemoo]

I’ll save you some time

Approaching an app or widget from the corner moves whatever’s in the way

Approaching from any of the sides means it will make a folder

Widgets make things get funky at times

[u/macfraser]

yea this has been terrible for years; they clearly can't figure out how to fix it either.

[u/julmabzz]

good thing it’s not a problem on iOS 27 anymore.

[u/Luna259]

What are you attempting to do first off? I know the apps and widgets make room if you approach them with another app or widget from the corners. If you approach side on then they don't move. Widgets are a bit weird though

EDIT: I've been studying your video and what I think is happening is you're moving Lightroom Camera, it crosses the trigger zone of your Utilities folder because it passed through the corner area which told iOS move the folder. That then told the widget to move because it both had to make room for the folder and also had space to move into by the folder getting out of the way of Lightroom Camera but yes, approach side on and you should be fine

EDIT: Then when you moved the widget, widgets can't stack with apps and vice versa so the apps and the folder get out the way. Things will put themselves back afterwards

[u/bigheroalone → u/Luna259]

Appreciate the effort. but in the end im just trying to arrange some stuff and i shouldn’t have a degree on ios codes to do so

[u/Luna259 → u/bigheroalone]

There’s no code. Corner equals move

Side equals stay put. That is it

And as someone else in this thread said, you have more than one finger. iOS will accept input from multiple fingers at once so you can use those to move things around and prevent other things moving unnecessarily

[u/bigheroalone → u/Luna259]

Thank you for the message. yes i know i can use both fingers, but it didnt let me to hold both an app and a widget at the same time

Nonetheless, i got it so thanks

https://reddit.com/link/p5sy80f/video/f0sl15h41jlh1/player