Remove apps from the Home Screen

You can take apps off your Home Screen pages without deleting them. They stay installed, and you can still find them in the App Library on your device.

Take apps off your pages

Either:

• drag apps into App Library only in the sidebar, or
• select apps and click Remove from Home Screen.

Only apps can be removed this way. Folders and widgets can't.

When you press Apply, Arrange asks you to confirm how many apps are coming off your pages.

Put apps back

App Library only lists every app that's installed but not on a page, including ones you removed on the device itself. Drag one onto a page to add it back to your Home Screen.

The "App Library" page

iOS and iPadOS insist that every app has a spot in the layout. So when you apply, Arrange puts App Library apps into folders named App Library on one last page.

Hide that page once on your device and it stays out of sight:

1. Touch and hold an empty spot on your Home Screen until the apps jiggle.
2. Tap the page dots at the bottom of the screen.
3. Untick the last page, then tap Done.

Arrange reminds you about this after an Apply that parks apps there.