Moving Apps and Creating Folders on Your Home Screen

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The iPhone has some very useful apps built in, but you may not need every app that’s on your main Home screen. (For example, if you don’t play games, you might not need the Game Center app there.) Although you can’t delete these apps from the iPhone (the apps that come built in), you can move them off your main Home screen or put them in a folder. You can have up to 11 Home screens and 20 folders per screen containing 12 apps each. So, you can move less frequently used apps to another screen. To do this, tap-and hold on any app for a few seconds until all the icons start to wiggle. Now, tap-and-drag ...

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