iTunes 9.0.2 adds extra home screens to app management

NO JB REQUIRED! I get 16 pages by using this tactic!
If u wanna make iPhone show more than 11 pages, just drag an app from the first page (must be a default app. eg. voice memos, weather…etc) to the last page. Then drag another app from either page 2~9 and the default app you drag will be place into the next page which you can’t see. At last, drag an app from second page and fill up the empty space of the default app. Before restarting your iPhone, check! your first page has to be full, also the last page. After all the double check, restart your iPhone or iPod Touch. You’ll get an extra page! Enjoy!
P.S. Remember not to use iTunes to mange your app’s position, or you will get back to 11 pages!

i dont understand how there still isnt alphabetical listing.. that seems like it would make the most sense (and should probably be on by default)

Not an app launcher or substitute for springbox, but appbutler.com (iphone.appbutler.com) allows you to place spacers icons and category icons onto your home screens that will allow you to arrange apps in a way that is more logical for you.

The one problem that I have had is that because the spacers and category icons are bookmarks that get saved by Safari, they must be named as it impossible to add an unnamed bookmark to the home screen. To get around this all my icons are named ".".

By the way, I am in no way affiliated with these people, just a fairly happy user.

Why do you need a "shelf"? Just delete them and then drag them back over to the proper page from the master list on the left?

But like most everyone, I'd still prefer to be able to create named folders on the Home screen.

In fact, I'd eliminate the multiple swipe icon screens for the following layout:

1) A "Home" screen with icons and folders.
2) Swipe left from Home for the search screen.
3) Swipe right from Home for the "multitasking" running applications screen. (grin)

I'd like to be able to change the icon of an app.

I have a great app that I "updated" yesterday. The only real change to the app was a ridiculous icon that is very embarrassing.

Get info shows the icon but it isn't editable. I may have to delete the app if I can't fix this.

This is something that you don't do everyday — and probably the most important thing for apple to achieve is an intuitive user interface. A lot of non-geeks use iPhones and they should be able to use this feature without having to think. A slight loss of efficiency is worth the absolute intuitiveness of this interface.

"being able to assign my own tags and categories to apps (combined with an auto-sort function) seems nicer"

Agreed 110%.

At the very least the iPhone should be able to present apps in Genre view like iTunes 9 already does.

What's interesting about that view is not only can you pick placeholder icons for each genre, but there are 20 genres in total...the *exact* number of total apps that can fit on one home screen.

So I almost wonder if Apple is planning to introduce this feature as part of OS 4.0. They've got to do something.

desktop management is better than nothing, but the implementation is poor. why are we limited to one column of home screens? it'd be much better if got a layout similar to the "Featured Galleries" on the right side of this page. 12 screens, 3 across x 4 high would show all of the home screens w/o the need to drag/scroll between screens 1 and 6 (for example) in the current layout.

why can't I scroll up and down to change pages on the phone itself? and why can't I continue to scroll right to get back to page 1? doesn't make sense to scroll all the way back (to the left) form the last page to the first. why does it have to snap to one page at a time, why can't we snap to the next column of apps instead of the whole page.

while I'm at it.. provide a user defined option to show the icons at 75%, so I can squeeze another row or column onto each page.

I would like to see a theme list. Where I could arrange screens then save as a theme and then arrange new ones. This way I could have a set of apps that I want for traveling, a set for regular work, and a set for whatever else... Many sets/themes and I could easily select a set, sync, and go.

Are you saying we can find the hidden apps from Spotlight? So I can hide apps that I don't want there... like the useless ones from Apple that I never use... STOCKS!