Neat iPhone App Management System Concept

Giles Turnbull ()

Another video doing the rounds of the blogs this morning, but little wonder because this is another thing that we – all of us – want.

Everyone knows what a pain it is to re-arrange and keep organized your iPhone apps, especially when you have pages and pages of the things. This neat concept video shows an iTunes-based system for keeping things sorted the way you want them, including the option to lock apps in place, or move several of them (or an entire screenful) at a time.

And when I say “everyone”, I mean it. The Apple team must share these frustrations along with the rest of us. So if Apple’s NOT working on something like this for a future iTunes/iPhone release, then I shall buy a packet of Refreshers for the seventh person who comments on this post.

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Giles Turnbull is a freelance writer in England. He writes for the Press Association and The Morning News. He has a website you can ignore and a Twitter account you needn't follow.

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  • http://www.myglasseye.net owen-b

    Been wondering why this hasn’t happened yet for AGES. If you have to reset your phone it’s particularly bloody annoying having to reorganise all those apps manually once they’re back on the phone. Why there isn’t an iTunes-based system I do not know. It’ll either happen in the next update or never, because Apple really don’t like being told what to do.

  • http://www.zeusboxstudio.com ncus

    why not embed the video :-(

  • http://gilest.org Giles Turnbull

    ncus: sorry, technical hiccup. Video is now embedded as planned.

  • http://twitter.com/iphonetiny Craig Grannell

    I got so frustrated with my iPhone mess that I grabbed every screen, sent the grabs to Photoshop and spent half an hour rearranging items there before doing the same on the iPhone.

    This concept is exactly the same as something I’ve mentioned to people for ages now, and I’ll bet hundreds (if not more) people have come up with the same idea. If Apple hasn’t, that beggars belief, because we now clearly need both a means of easily arranging dozens of applications and also a means of more easily accessing them on iPhones.

  • Patric Jernberg

    I love it. Of course it’s anoying it’s not already there, but I truly believe it’s on it’s way in future updates – now that Apple can see how many apps are being downloaded. I guess there’ll be a genre sorting as well, business, games etc.

  • http://www.postmarque.ca troy

    i spent an hour trying to find this post… only to find out it’s not true… my memory plays tricks on me.