iPhone homescreen evolution 2

This is a follow-up to my initial iPhone homescreen evolution post from 7.5 years ago. I won’t go as much into details and link to all the apps in the app store this time.

My current homescreen

August 2021
August 2021

Thanks to App Library introduced in iOS 14 I have a single homescreen. I even have only 1 folder, grouping apps used for biking. From top left to bottom right:

I have notifications turned off on most apps. All group chats are muted.

2014–2021

March 2014
March 2014

That’s where it ended last time.

July 2014
July 2014

I kept the idea of having a single homescreen, with the least used apps tucked away in themed folders. Overcast must have come out around that time, as I replaced the Podcasts app with it. Tinder made a comeback. Also, the spacing between the app icons and names apparently increased ever so slightly.

October 2014
October 2014

Tinder got replaced by the Pumped 2 game. Again, there was a slight shift of spacing between the app icons and names…

November 2015
November 2015
June 2016
June 2016

Still having a single homescreen, but with just 1 folder and 1 app. It seems I kept it like that for about 1 year, surprisingly.

October 2016
October 2016

Here, the idea was an empty first homescreen, and having all other apps ordered by most to least used on subsequent homescreens. No folders. For a while I was using the Ecoute app instead of the default Music app, but then both started sucking equally.

February 2017
February 2017
August 2017
August 2017
September 2017
September 2017
October 2017
October 2017
December 2017
December 2017

That’s an evolution of the previous concept, still with the ordered apps starting on the second homescreen. But there are no additional homescreens and all the remaining apps are squeezed into 1 folder.

April 2018
April 2018

I briefly tried having an additional folder dedicated to games only.

March 2019
March 2019

I got rid of Google apps and all Facebook apps except WhatsApp. I also experimented with having fewer apps in the dock.

October 2019
October 2019

I started taking into account the one-handed phone holding reachability by moving the most used apps to the bottom right area instead of the top left. The most notable app change is replacing the broken Everyday with Dayli. And again, another difference in spacing between the app icons and names. The designers at Apple sure have no higher priorities.

December 2019
December 2019
January 2020
January 2020

Whaddya know? The spacing between the app icons and names is back to what it was in early 2019.

September 2020
September 2020
October 2020
October 2020

My first experiments with the newly introduced App Library and widget stacks. I tried having a full-width weather widget to see the multi-day forecast. In the end, it was eating up too much space, and not that accurate anyway.

December 2020
December 2020
January 2021
January 2021

I’m finally free of all Google and Facebook apps, including WhatsApp. I still have massive FOMO, partially justified, because I know I’m missing out on many things organized in WhatsApp groups and upcoming events published on Instagram. But I stand by my opinion that the Facebook company should not exist and that Google’s business is fundamentally invasive.

April 2021
April 2021

I use a black wallpaper on my homescreens because that’s what works best with all app icons. On the phone’s lock screen I do have a picture wallpaper though.