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Customizing icons, organising into folders and creating homepages on your iPhone.

What better way to put the 'I' into your iPhone than by customizing your beloved device?

Additionally, creating multiple Home Screens makes switching between personal and professional profiles a synch. Now with iPhone 4 Apple have added the ability to create folders, giving you a new way to organise your apps and keep your new device free from clutter. As you'd expect, Apple has made doing both tasks extremely straight forward:

To rearrange the icons on your Home Screen:

  • Click and hold onto a Home Screen icon until they all start to wiggle
  • You can click and drag icons to new locations - or into the main shortcut tray at the bottom of the screen
  • Press the Home button to stop the jiggle and save your new icon layout
  • You can create up to nine Home Screens to accommodate all your Applications and Shortcuts. You can also change the arrangement or the actual functionality of the four main shortcuts in the Dock at the bottom of the screen that are usually reserved for Phone, Mail, iPod and Safari.

To create additional Home Screens:

  • When you are rearranging icons (see above) drag an icon to the right edge of the screen and a new screen will appear
  • Drop your icon (and any more you want to transfer) onto the new screen and press the Home button to save your new arrangement
  • You can navigate back and forth between screens by flicking your finger from right to left (and vice versa)
  • The small dots at the bottom of the screen show how many screens you have and the highlighted dot indicates the screen you are on

Note: You can reset your iPhone 3G to the original default layout at any time by clicking on Settings, selecting General, clicking Reset and selecting Reset Home Screen Layout

You can have up to nine Home Screens on your iPhone

To organise into Folders

  • To create a folder just touch and hold an app until it wiggles, then drag it onto another app.
  • You're done! Intelligently, iPhone 4 renames the new folder you have created according to what type of apps you have stored in it.
  • For example – put all your work-related apps into one folder and your games into another.
  • Also, you can create folders and organize app using iTunes, then sync it all back onto your Phone.

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