Comments on: What’s on YOUR iPhone Home Screen?

By: michealsullivan

michealsullivan — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 21:05:50 +0000

It was amasing to see such beautiful home screens

By: theruffian

theruffian — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 09:23:02 +0000

I’m waaaay late on this post but it was so interesting I had to post, the iPhone has really changed my life organizationally. Like a lot of posters here I organize my apps by function and frequency of use. On the permanent bar are The Weather Channel, Safari, Messages, Phone. Home screen mostly native apps except for Weather and of course Stocks, also InrixTraffic, ProCamera, Pandora, Skype, and Battery Level (love the badge). Second screen is productivity apps like Evernote, ToDo’s, and Bill Tracker. Third screen is for what I consider reference apps like Wikipedia, Yelp, SnapTell, RedLaser, Superpages, and City Search. Next screen is news and media (and the TiPB badge). After that nothin but apps for the kids and games.

By: Brian

Brian — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 22:01:54 +0000

Yeah I wish you didn’t have to jail break your phone to get themes and cool backgrounds! Are they ever going to release some quality apps for that?

By: Brandon C. Butler

Brandon C. Butler — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 01:23:03 +0000

My screens are color coordinated. I hate when they change an icon. Does this make me a nerd or OCD?

By: Ouriel Ohayon

Ouriel Ohayon — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 11:17:55 +0000

Hi Rene, here is a little gift, a live version of your second screen with clickable icons and a few stats

http://bit.ly/ReneRitchieTiPb

you also have an embedded version on the same link if you want to use it on your blog!

And if you are interested here are my favorite apps http://myap.ps/ouriel

Ouriel Ohayon AppsFire.com

By: Sunny

Sunny — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 18:34:55 +0000

Organized by most frequently used and jumps to other categories (just a tad bit OCD)… JB w/customized theme: http://bit.ly/FaXz8. Theming is part of the JB appeal, I do believe.

By: Gregory Foster

Gregory Foster — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 13:41:54 +0000

Most useful by category on first page, most useful by category following 5 pages.

By: racemase

racemase — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 11:43:36 +0000

Just for your information: I’ve started a small homescreen project on posterous. Feel free to have a look: http://bit.ly/mdb7p

By: mark

mark — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 07:19:58 +0000

Delete Jaadu.
Install RemoteTap.
Marvel at it.
Thank me.

[I'm not affiliated.]

By: DaveInStereo

DaveInStereo — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 03:29:05 +0000

Maximizing. Minimalist. Jailbroken.

http://daveinstereo.posterous.com/maximizing-minimalist-jailbroken

(Mods plz 2 delete TwitPic one. Thanks!)

By: DaveInStereo

DaveInStereo — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 03:22:54 +0000

Maximizing. Minimalist. Jailbroken.

http://twitpic.com/jwze2/

By: tech911

tech911 — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 01:43:36 +0000

I keep mine to a minimum as well…high quality wallpapers, otherwise, no themes, just status bar notifications, SBSettings, cyntact, my name replaces the AT&T icon on status bar, and upcoming calendar events on lockscreen.

By: fastlane

fastlane — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 01:40:19 +0000

You’d never know my iPhone was jailbroken by looking at it (unless there’s a status bar notification). No trashy themes or backgrounds – just SBSettings and Backgrounder with icons hidden. Only three home screens with first one still Apple default (use those the most).

By: tech911

tech911 — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 01:34:52 +0000

Mine are also organized by most used on the first page and second page, then pages 3 and 4 are all games. Using five-row springboard as well as five-icon dock, from left to right starting at top: clock, weather max, BofA, accounts, billminder, convert, docs2go (which was just updated yesterday to support full excel support!), istudiez pro, voice notes, awesome note, navigon, google maps, google earth, star walk, compass, iPod, pandora, kindle, pictures, camera genius…and on the dock: phone, messaging, calendar, email, safari. Very organized, very few default apps, and with wallpapered backgrounds (haven’t made the jump to 3.1…I see no need to lose all of the functionality of jailbreak, I have my MMS, the rest can wait.)

By: SpiceRak2

SpiceRak2 — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 01:20:14 +0000

My pages are set by category then priority: Page one – absolute essentials, including news and banking, maps, email. After that, it’s pages of utilities, entertaiment then games.

Oh yeah…also on page one: Bookmark for TiPB.

By: tweger01

tweger01 — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 22:52:22 +0000

For the sake of sounding like Truth:

who cares? This is a "how do I have things listed" post. There's no themes or custom anything, just what order you have them in.

By: kingbernie

kingbernie — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 22:39:26 +0000

iphone homescreens are so boring... all the same, no agenda, no sms or email preview, no cool background.

only Apple could take a boring (but at least clean) interface like that of the iPhone and sell it to so many people. Thumbs up for their Marketing dept, they reinvented the wheel

By: Ramhen

Ramhen — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 21:44:29 +0000

HTC HERO SENSE UI BABY!!!

By: ursush

ursush — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 21:32:23 +0000

Also, I move Phone from bottom bar to back page and bring SMS to bottom bar. I access the phone with double click of Home to Favourites. (I should say this is not my primary phone … work pay for the other one which is used more often.)

By: ursush

ursush — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 21:30:15 +0000

First thing to change is drag Settings to bottom bar and ditch Safari to last page. I have bookmark to Bloglines and BBC Sport on home page that are my front door to Safari.

Other home page certs are Jaadu VNC, Spotify (testing), Copilot (for EU), WunderRadio (for BBC 5 Live radio etc), iMapMyFitness, iPeng (for Squeezebox control), Midomi (not Shazam), Maps, The Weather Channel (not standard weather app), Dublin Bus/Dublin Rail (a kind of Irish equivalent for NYC City Subway maps or HopStop), Yelp! (with monocle, fun but not useful for me) and finally, Camera.

On holidays I had Lonely Planet, Accuterra, HopStop, Navigon (for US) and NYC Maps on front page.

By: frog

frog — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 20:57:09 +0000

Mines as it shipped.

By: chrstphr.ross

chrstphr.ross — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 20:23:31 +0000

I’ve kept my screen default, aside from the whole theme thing on my jailbroken phone. Plus i have a 6 icon dock now, which is awesome.

By: JT

JT — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 20:12:51 +0000

Due to business purposes the home screen is for the standard apple apps…never know who is peering over your shoulder. Then when the coast is clear page 2 is for most common apps. sportacular, mlb at bat, echofon(twitter app) skype , my fantasy teams, facebook, NYC Subway maps, and Golfshots GPS(best app paid for to date)

By: kilsey

kilsey — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 20:05:09 +0000

I always set the first 2 pages relative to the ones I use most often.

Page 1: http://twitpic.com/jv7x2 Prowl is set up to send push notifications for Deliveries and IMs to my non-work accounts Pkt Weather conveniently displays the temperature in the push notification badge (very handy!) Kindle and Byline for reading, and SimplyTweet for Twitter for now. The rest should be self-explanatory

Page 2: Includes App Store, Settings, iDisk, Nike+, Daily Burn apps, RedLaser, pCalc, TomTom, NY transit apps (3), Where To? Yelp, Chase, and Mint

By: Bryan

Bryan — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 19:56:20 +0000

doh now I look like a spammer, here’s a link to my home screen http://bit.ly/1L2pPW

By: Bubba

Bubba — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 19:55:35 +0000

Also forgot , facebook, twittelator, slingbox and beejive. Guess I don’t have but a few default apps on the homescreen

By: Bryan

Bryan — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 19:55:16 +0000

Discover Simple, Private Sharing at Drop.io

By: Bubba

Bubba — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 19:53:02 +0000

Cycorder, MLB@bat,kindle, weather channel,snapture,pandora,simplify music 2 and AT&T navigator … The rest are default

By: firesign

firesign — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 19:50:54 +0000

people still listen to leo laporte? wow.

By: cardfan

cardfan — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 19:47:17 +0000

Umm..alphabetical order here with default home screen. Lots of apps but use spotlight most of time.

By: johaen8

johaen8 — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 19:35:16 +0000

My home page is the default, with the Contacts app added to the bottom (3G here). Eveery page after that is all my apps in alphabetical order. I’m so boring.

By: ich bin ein iPhoner

ich bin ein iPhoner — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 19:18:54 +0000

My first screen is factory default. Second page is the apps I use almost daily. Fourth is games. Also, I organize each screen (except the first) by colour to optimize the aesthetics.

By: sting7k

sting7k — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 19:18:16 +0000

I'm in the same boat as Bin75 right now, black screen most of the time.

But when it's responding the first page is most used apps. Second page is frequently used apps and settings. Then third page randomly assorted apps, 4th page all news, 5th page more random, 6&7 games, 8 unused stock apps.

By: icebike

icebike — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 19:03:56 +0000

I have no full screens.

I organize by App function/purpose, with the first page being reserved for the most used.

Calendar, clock, news apps (news junkie) and weather. Thats it.

This method or organization makes for a lot of scrolling, which just shows how outdated the Springboard concept really is. It was never designed with the App store in mind. It needs menus, lists, categories, etc. (And in my experience searching for apps via the search is not a good substitute for a proper method of organization.)

By: Bin75

Bin75 — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 18:59:29 +0000

I usually have a black screen since the 3.1 update. Hardly ever see an incoming call anymore and yet no help from apple.

By: Dexter

Dexter — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 18:46:29 +0000

Forget which apps you have on the Home screen. Let’s talk about the LOOK of it. This is where jailbreaking shines. Nothing can touch the screens and themes they have available when you jailbreak your iPhone.