I think you run out of space before you ran out of the number of apps you could 
have. Smile. I mean memory space or disk space as we used to say. 50,000 apps! 
How absurd.
Mary


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> On Nov 20, 2016, at 5:45 PM, Sieghard Weitzel <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Hi Mary,
> 
> It's been 9 apps I think ever since iOS 7, but I don't know why it's 9 and 
> not, for example, 12 or 16, one would think a folder could have 4 across like 
> a home screen and also at least 3 or 4 rows, maybe Apple made it an easy 3 by 
> 3 grid to make it easier to see all the apps on a page at a glance. Below is 
> a link to an article which contains a handy table showing how many 
> apps/folders can be on a home screen on the various devices and how many home 
> pages there can be and how many pages in a folder. The quick answer is that 
> for the 6S and 6S Plus and I assume also the 7 and 7 Plus one could have 
> almost 50 thousand apps on  a device if one put only folders everywhere and 
> filled up said folders completely.
> 
> https://www.lifewire.com/how-many-apps-allowed-iphone-2000752
> 
> Regards,
> Sieghard
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of 
> Mary Otten
> Sent: Sunday, November 20, 2016 5:31 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Nine apps per page in a folder on an iPhone 7 Plus, why?
> 
> I am probably wrong, but it seemed to me that we used to have 12 A per page 
> in folders. But I have been trying to move some apps around and noticed that 
> I can only have nine apps per page in a folder now. Why? Has anyone ever seen 
> a discussion on this? It seems like there is a lot of space going unused, and 
> while I know my phone is big, I would think even you could have 12 on an 
> iPhone SE. There must be a reason. But I sure don't know what it is.
> Mary
> 
> 
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