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Getting More iPhone Home Screens – And Keeping Them

Extra iPhone screens in iTunes.

Extra iPhone screens in iTunes.

A couple of weeks back, I wrote Temporarily Get More iPhone Home Screens Via Cunning Bug Exploit, but had heard staying away from the iTunes Applications tab within my iPhone was probably a Very Good Idea. Reader Larry Pressnell noted that since the most recent iTunes update, his extra screens have been accessible in iTunes.

Since I needed to add some apps to my device, I decided to take the plunge earlier and, sure enough, my experience mirrored Larry’s: 11 home screens were shown, and extra ones were dimmed—see the grab above. Interestingly, items could be dragged from these ‘extra’ screens to the standard ones, with no problems, and a full sync didn’t find my extra pages vanishing into the ether. Whether this has anything to do with Voice Memos (the app used to get extra screens in the first place) being the last app on my final page, or the fact I’ve yet to update my iPhone OS to the latest point release, I’ve no idea.

Are you having fun with extra pages and managing to successfully rearrange your apps in iTunes? If so, let us know in the comments!

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Craig Grannell

Craig Grannell is Cult of Mac's designer and an occasional contributor. He also runs iPhoneTiny.com, a Twitter-driven reviews site for iPhone apps and games. Follow Craig on Twitter @CraigGrannell and visit his website, Snub Communications.

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2 comments

    Upgraded to 3.1.2 yesterday and was pleasantly surprised by how well app arrangement through iTunes worked. IPhone 2G

    I’ve been adding apps, getting the greyed out pages for the extras, but when I sync, I get voice memo pushed to home screen 2 on its own and all the other screens pushed down. It’s only when there’s a blank spot on one of the other pages that it stops doing that, it adds voice memo to that blank spot. Hope that makes sense. It’s a better visual than a description. It’s frustrating and very weird. I don’t use voice memo and wouldn’t miss it if it disappeared (which stocks seems to have), but it wants to stay accessible no matter what I want to do.

    Any ideas?

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