I put most of my icons in folders and only leave the ones I use really often either separate or out of the dock.
-- Cheryl May the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable to You, Lord, my rock and my Redeemer. (Psalm 19:14 HCSB) On Jan 10, 2013, at 9:32 AM, "Lauren Simmons" <[email protected]> wrote: > Thank you Cheryl. Did as you suggested and I'm just fine now. The trick is, > from, let's say page #2, double tap on the app then hold > till you are prompted that you can move the icon, and you now simply slide > your icon all the way off to the left edge of the device. > Sliding the icon to the left moves it to previous page. There will be no > verbal confirmation of the change; simply look for the icon > to confirmed it has been moved. Like you stated, one must have room on Home > screen #1 so that the app icon can take up that space. I > then double tapped and moved my icons around on Home screen #1 to change the > order of icons in an effort to make the most important > icons very easy to find on top row of Home screen EG: Settings, calculator, > reminders, etc. > > I was also able to delete the additional 3 empty Home screens by single > tapping anywhere on the screen and holding until I heard the > quiet tone, and I then pressed the Home key once to delete the extraneous > blank Home screen. One must repeat this process until all > unwanted Home screens are removed. > > Thank you very much for the precise instructions and the nudge in the right > direction. > > LS > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Cheryl Homiak" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2013 6:19 AM > Subject: Re: Using the App switcher > > > Okay, what you must have done was double tap and moved your icons. If you > held them down just right, they would have been moved to > other pages. If you have a current backup, I think you could fix this more > easily just by connecting to your computer or using > iCloud (whichever you are doing) and doing a "restore from backup" but don't > do that unless you have a pretty current backup. > > Otherwise, the only way I know of to do it is to double tap and hold each > item until it says moving app and then keeping your finger > on the iPod and moving the item. When it says "cjamgomg page" (may not be > exact words) just hold there till it changes pages. Just > remember that if a page gets too full that page either won't accept something > moved or will move something else off the page onto > another one. This can be kind of slow and tiresome process so if you get > frustrated take a break and rest your fingers. This is a > real quicky explanation because i'm in a hurry so somebody else may post > something more detailed and/or you may be able to find a > podcast on it. That's such an awful feeling - to have everything organized > and then have everything come out of its folders and > spread over several pages. For some reason that happened to me on one of my > devices during the 6.0 upgrade and I wasn't happy at > all! > > -- > Cheryl > > May the words of my mouth > and the meditation of my heart > be acceptable to You, Lord, > my rock and my Redeemer. > (Psalm 19:14 HCSB) > > > > On Jan 9, 2013, at 11:51 PM, Lauren Simmons <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Thank you Cheryl as this definitely works on the IPodTouch 5th just as you >> described, but now I've done it! I became a little too >> bold and tried it on the Home screen. I ended up with 4 pages on the Home >> screen rather than my normal 2 pages. If you can help >> with >> this I'd appreciate it. To be precise, I'd say I need help moving icons from >> X page back to page 1 of Home screen. >> >> LS >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Cheryl Homiak" <[email protected]> >> To: <[email protected]> >> Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2013 5:36 PM >> Subject: Re: Using the App switcher >> >> >> Okay, I have an iPhone and I haven't seen the iPod you have so I hope this >> helps. >> >> When in the app switcher on the iphone, you double tap and hold on any >> application in there. You'll hear a sound effect, kind of >> ascending tones, and it should say "editing apps". Then you double tap any >> application to remove it from the app switcher; it may >> say "double tap to delete" but don't worry; it isn't really deleting the >> app. When you've deleted the ones you want to delete, >> you >> can either double tap "dismiss app switcher" or you can press home which >> takes you to the normal mode of the app switcher where >> you >> open apps; another press of home takes you back to the home screen. I would >> think it would be similar on your ipod. >> >> Hth. >> >> -- >> Cheryl >> >> May the words of my mouth >> and the meditation of my heart >> be acceptable to You, Lord, >> my rock and my Redeemer. >> (Psalm 19:14 HCSB) >> >> >> >> On Jan 9, 2013, at 9:59 AM, "Lauren Simmons" <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> Hi all, >>> >>> How to I close any apps found within the Apps Switcher? For example, if I >>> quickly press the home key twice I'll open the App >>> Switcher and find that there are 4 items in there: Settings, weather, App >>> store, and Safari. >>> >>> I'm assuming these apps are using up resources, so I would like to close >>> them. >>> >>> I'm using an IPodTouch 5th. ...Can't believe the reliability of these Apple >>> products--they're very stable. >>> >>> LS >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" >>> Google Group. >>> To search the VIPhone public archive, visit >>> http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. >>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>> [email protected]. >>> For more options, visit this group at >>> http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. >>> >>> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google >> Group. >> To search the VIPhone public archive, visit >> http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected]. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. >> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google >> Group. >> To search the VIPhone public archive, visit >> http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected]. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. >> >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google > Group. > To search the VIPhone public archive, visit > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google > Group. > To search the VIPhone public archive, visit > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google Group. 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