In this day and age, our phones are our lives. So the way I see it, a cluttered phone=a cluttered life. That’s why I started the subreddit iOSsetups. Time and Time again, redditors post to the subreddit a brand new home screen with a caption like “I can’t stop re-organizing my iPhone since I found this subreddit!”. Organizing your phone can be a difficult proscess if you’re not experienced, especially if you have a lot of apps. I’m here to help you through the overwhelming proscess of organizing your iOS device.

Step 1: Notifications

You probably get a lot of notifications on your phone. Some of them are important, and some of them aren’t. Over time, your notifications can get a bit out of control. There’s an easy fix. Go to Settings – >Notifications Here you will find a list of apps. Click on each app and change settings for each individual app depending on what you deem appropriate for that app alone. Tip: turn notifications off for games and pre-installed applications that you do not use.

Step 2: Apps and Homescreen layout

Next we’re going to re-organize our apps on our home screen. This is because having apps all over the place hinders our ability to access them quickly. Go to Settings – >General – >Reset – >Reset home screen layout – ->Reset home screen This will move all of your pre-installed apps back to the way that they were when you first set up the phone, and then move all of the apps you downloaded from the app store in alphabetical order. After you get back to your home page, hold down on an app until all of your apps start to wiggle. Go through all of the apps that you have and think to yourself: “how often do I use this?” if the answer is once a month or less, think to yourself: “do I really need this?” if the answer is no, delete the app. This will not only de-clutter your phone but also free up storage. Remember to be honest with yourself during this proscess. The next thing we are going to do is re-organize the layout. There are several effective methods, more can be found here

For the purpose of this article, I’m going to be using a method I think is somewhat easy. The jist of this method is: Use four folders at the top row of your home screen. Position your 4 most frequently used apps on the dock for easy access, and position other frequently used apps on the rows below your row of folders: (Utilities, productivity, photo and video, and social) Try to keep your most frequently used apps the bottom right 4 apps on your home screen (bottom left of your a lefty) so that you can access them quickly with your dominant thumb. Example of this method:

Step 3: Share your setup

If you feel comfortable, share your setup on the internet. A good environment to share your setup is the r/iOSsetups subreddit.

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