iPhone 101: Two Home screen tricks

Here are two simple but useful tips from TUAW readers David B Alford and Andrew Akker that help you navigate through your iPhone or iPod home screens. David points out that if you tap just to the left or to the right of the dots at the bottom of your screen, you can move a page at a time without having to drag. Tap left, you move left. Tap right, you move right. It's quick and it's easy.

Andrew figured out how to pause his drag Home screen drags. If you start to move between screens by dragging and then tap the dots control during that drag, screen pauses. You'll see bits of both home screens at once, and can interact with them normally by tapping icons. You can see up to 24 icons at once (16 off to one side, 4 along the other side, and 4 in the bar at the bottom).

I've tested both tips extensively and they work great -- two really nice additions to one's Home-screens skills.

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Source: http://www.apple.com/ipodtouch/features.html#customize

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Phaedrus

I found a third.

If you remove all icons from the dock, then put a webclip in it, then delete the webclip, the dock will disappear until the next time you return to the home screen. you can even put items into the nonexistant dock, and they disappear. they come back when the dock comes back.

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Andrew A.

That's not a tip, that's a bug. lol

January 24 2008 at 3:30 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

alan

i can confirm does not seem to work on 1.1.2 on homescreen but in the weather app it works...

January 24 2008 at 6:38 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

StoneRoses

Paging tab in home screen does not work on my 1.1.2 jailbroken iPhone. But it does work in weather app.

Is there anything wrong?

January 24 2008 at 2:21 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

mattbinkowski

Erica,
That left/right paging function has been in place since day one within the weather widget. It's not new to the iPhone UI.

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webmin

Doesn't work on my 1.1.1 updated to 1.1.2 iPhone

January 23 2008 at 11:30 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

doug

This does not work on my jailbroke 1.1.1.

January 23 2008 at 7:36 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

evangelical

yo that swipey thing is not new it. Also works in the weather app and has been for some time

January 23 2008 at 7:34 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Rob Jones

Good tips, I likey.

January 23 2008 at 6:03 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Ryan

I noticed they changed the bottom of the home screen in ipod touch. it now has the iphone dock unlike the leopard looking dock it use to have with the reflective bottom. whats up with that? why not give the touch and iphone both the leopard looking dock. its MUCH better looking, looks a lot more sharp!

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kevin heylen

I've heard this update also works on an unlocked iPhone. Is that true?

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Amit

Is that iPod touch??? I dont see this in my iPhone...

bookmarked @ http://livbit.com

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Pete Zich

That is an ipod touch.

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