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Organize by category

Organize sorts your apps into categories, like Games, Productivity, and Social, and puts each category on its own page or in its own folder. You get a preview to adjust before anything moves, and nothing changes on your device until you press Apply.

How categories are chosen

Setup How apps are grouped Cost
No AI (the default) By each app's App Store category, such as Games, Productivity, and Social Networking. Free, no setup
An AI you set up The AI suggests groups like Kids or Work, and follows any instructions you type. Whatever your AI service charges

To use an AI, set one up first in ⚙︎ Settings › AI for organizing. See Set up AI for organizing.

Organize your Home Screen

  1. Click Organize in the header.
  2. Under Put each category, choose:
    • On its own page: Games on one page, Social on the next, and so on.
    • In a folder: one folder per category, all on your first pages.
  3. Choose your options:
    • Include apps that are in folders now: when ticked, apps already in your folders are re-sorted too. Folders that end up empty are removed. Untick it to leave your folders alone.
    • How many categories: Fewer, Some, or More.
    • Anything the AI should know? (only with an AI): optional instructions, for example "put the kids' apps together, and keep work apps separate."
  4. Click Suggest categories.

Review the plan

Arrange shows Here's the plan: every category with its apps.

  • Drag apps between categories, or click an app to pick where it goes from a menu.
  • Drop an app on + New category to start a new one.
  • Click a category's name to rename it.
  • Click Try again for a fresh suggestion, or Back to change your options.

When the plan looks right, click Arrange my Home Screen.

What happens next

  • The Dock and widgets stay where they are. Anything that isn't being organized keeps its place at the front.
  • Apps that don't fit a category go into Other.
  • With In a folder, a category with only one app stays as a single app rather than a one-app folder.
  • With On its own page, Arrange labels each page with its category so you can see what's where. The labels are only shown in Arrange, because iOS and iPadOS pages don't have names.

Check the result, make any final changes, then press Apply. If you don't like it, press Undo to put everything back.

What's sent where

To look up categories, Arrange sends the IDs of the apps being organized and your country to Apple's App Store. If you use an AI, it also sends the app names, their App Store categories, how many categories you asked for, and anything you typed, to the AI you chose. See Privacy.

If Arrange can't reach the App Store, it says so. Check your internet connection and try again.