The iPhone app organizer I would love to see
Back in September I blogged about how an app organizer would have been a nice (and logical) addition to iTunes. Gizmodo posted a concept video today showing how that functionality could be integrated into the existing iTunes design.
I can’t find much more information about the creator of the video (YouTube user svdomer09) but I like the way he thinks! A lot of people would say that it’s already easy to drag and sort apps on the iPhone or iPod touch interface, but being able to do that on the computer seems like it would be a major timesaver for someone with pages of applications.
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This is how they should have done it since day 1. Maybe if we all reblog the video enough Apple will catch on.
It’s a great idea, but one I won’t hold my breath on.
I’ve got 5 pages of apps, a tool like that would be so handy to have.
Thanks
I agree, we need to keep spreading this video until Apple does it. Im gonna post it on my blog.
This what we need! I had my iPhone for four months now and its got around 50 apps on it. The other day I tried organizing them, after 2 minutes i said forget this!
Totally agree, I have felt that this was sorely needed since I finally picked one up at Xmas. I tried to reorganize my apps last week and it got very messy very quickly LOL. I have ten pages of apps is that normal/not very many/too many?
The most important interface for iPhone would be speech recognition based commanding to launch an app or browse the app pages.
Ugh, yes, this is a much needed feature. But knowing how stubborn Apple can be about its original designs/interfaces, it may be years before anything like this happens. They still won’t let go of the one-button mouse. C’mon!
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A great concept and one I think would certainly improve the user experience. Now if you actually had a multi-touch on the MBA…….I run away with myself.
This is an awesome idea – definitely something I’d love to see.
I’d love to be able to see all 9 available screens at once for organizing. 3 rows of 3? Two rows (5 & 4)? Just makes sense to be able to group my games, reference, news, social, etc. apps together as I want them.
Such a simple concept and would be SO useful! Thanks for shedding light.
I hate to go against the flow here but I will. I think apple has already made iTunes way too bloated and this will just add to the problem. Also not every user of iTunes uses the iPhone or the touch and to thrust this onto all users would be too much.
GOD YES! Apple really needs to do something like this. I am constantly pushing apps off the 9th page by accident. It’s near to impossible to move an app from one page to another without accidentally moving an app one a page full of apps.
I have 9 pages of apps with 15 apps per page so that I can move from page to page without accidentally moving an app. This means I can only have 139 apps instead of the 148 maximum.
A system like the one shown in the video would make life a billion times better!
Please Apple, do something like this!
Robert: Guess what, if you don’t use an iPhone/iPod Touch, then you would not see the interface to move apps around. Simple as that.
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I could really use this, it’s such a pain trying to organise apps with a little over 5 pages, I’d hate to have 10 to deal with.
Nice video. But seriously if you actually need this then what the really need is to clean some of the crap off your phone.
This is great! And badly needed. I disagree that it would further bloat iTunes. It could just be functional if you’ve attached an iPhone/iTouch to the computer. The “Applications” section of my library never showed up until I hooked up my iPhone.
darrin is right on. What we need is a folder based system (did I really say that?) or some other way to view categories of apps.
Or, how about a multi-function app that would tie all of this amazing functionality together? I guess that’s Apple’s job, hopefully they are watching/working…
I would rather just have folders. My 7 pages of finding stuff would just be a two click/tap process if I could sort it into folders.
Anyone else down to about two or three apps they actually use daily anyway? Most apps I download, including the games, are played/used once or twice and then forgotten. People are making great apps; I’m just not using them.
I would love this! With 9 pages of apps… it is hard to find where the apps are.
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I find it a bit of a nuisance when there is a app at the far back page that I want to move all the way to the front. So this program would be nice. However, I would like a way to do these same functions ON my iPhone without having to sync it.
Nevertheless, kudos on the great idea in this video.
definatly need this especially when i have 10 pages of apps
I own over 400 apps and while I have slowed down, am obviously not done yet. I don’t want to delete any so need a way to organize on iTunes as well as on my iPhone.
I jailbroke once and has Categories and G the Gold launcher but want Apple to fix this. My tunes have categories and genres and I can rate them. That would be enough.
anything would be better than what we have currently. C’mon Apple!
Wonderful!
All it needs now is a little slide out tray at the bottom with all of your applications.
While that tool is good for sorting stuff, if you want to start from scratch it’d be very nice, and then you sort later on when new apps arrive.
I can’t believe how unbelievably difficult Apple makes it to organize apps. The implementation in the video is absolutely perfect. Apple, please?!???
just what I was looking for 2thumbs & 2 big toes up
has anyone checked out the sinful repo for iphone off the chain
check out http://www.makeuseof.com/dir/movement-organize-iphone-apps/
it looks very much like the thing on this video, too bad it’s only available on mac
but they say itunes 9 might do something like that too.