A Guide to Layout on your iPhone
How the iPhone X changes your layout
The new iPhone X has ditched the home button. With this, organising and positioning your applications is more important than ever. The release is still around 2 months away, but the iPhone X changes a lot.
Screen real estate of an iPhone will be shifted, with a focus on gestures and the way we organise apps on that home screen will change, thanks to this.
For many, the $1000 price point, makes the iPhone X unreachable. But for some that move will change the way we think about our display.
For now, we thought we’d share a few ways you can use your current iPhone display to maximise space, save time and reduce hand strain.
Screen real estate of an iPhone will be shifted, with a focus on gestures and the way we organise apps on that home screen will change, thanks to this.
The Dock ⛵
The most used applications are kept in the dock.
Our recommendations of what to store here:
- The most popular messenger app (iMessages, FB Messenger etc.)
- The browser for quick access (Chrome, Opera, Safari)
- The most used email client (Newton, Apple Mail etc)
- The entertainment service you use most (Spotify, Medium, Quora)
As a rule of thumb, I normally say, the 4 most used apps across your day.
Q: What apps do you have in your dock?
The Central Apps 🥅
The central row of applications consist of apps you use 3–4 times a day.
Our recommendations of what to place here:
- Most-used social media apps (Snapchat, Instagram, Facebook)
- Calendar applications (iCal, Vantage, Calendars 5, Fantastical)
- Most-used storage services (OneDrive, Evernote, Box, Dropbox)
- Entertainment services (YouTube, Anchor, Netflix)
- Most commonly used work comms tools (Slack, Twist etc.)
- Settings (for easy access)
These are the most easy to access apps, that you use here and there.
Q: What apps do you consider worthy of the central rows?
The Stretch 🦊
The top hand corners that you workout the thumb to reach.
These ones are the location neccesary applications:
- Meditation Apps (Mindfulness, Calm, Headspace)
- Alarm Clock (SleepCycle, default Clock)
- Photos (for quick access)
- App Store (for updates and access)
- A folder with additional apps (default iOS Apps)
This should be a landing spot for all those only “once a day” apps.
Q: What will you add to the stretch limits?
The extra Pages
So you are probably wondering, “okay my homepage is a tight selection of apps. Where shall all of my other apps go?!”
Remedy to how many apps you have, and how you use them. For me, I organise them based on their status of review and a folder for basics.
This helps to plot all of my other applications. I will then use search on iOS to find the application with speed. Easy as that!
Let us know in the comments how you go about organising your iPhone home screen, we’d love to hear!
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