{"id":31280,"date":"2021-01-11T16:35:29","date_gmt":"2021-01-11T21:35:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=31280"},"modified":"2022-01-13T16:31:11","modified_gmt":"2022-01-13T21:31:11","slug":"is-ios-14s-app-library-for-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/11\/is-ios-14s-app-library-for-me\/","title":{"rendered":"Is iOS 14&rsquo;s App Library for Me?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/techreflect.net\/2021\/01\/09\/is-app-library-ios-for-me\/\">Chris Hynes<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/techreflect.net\/2021\/01\/09\/is-app-library-ios-for-me\/\">\n<p>You find names appearing under icons to be irritating, especially since you&rsquo;ve long since memorized what all your app icons look like.<\/p>\n<p>When you click on something that looks like a folder, you&rsquo;ve always wanted it to launch the app under finger than open a folder like it does in the home screen.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>You like when you have something that looks like a folder and clicking a big icon behaves differently than a small icon.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>You were hoping for another place to search for apps that doesn&rsquo;t tell you what folder the app is in.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Some good points, made sarcastically. I actually kind of like App Library. It sure beats swiping through an unsorted folder nine apps at a time. The small vs. large icon distinction probably breaks some rules but works well in practice.<\/p>\n<p>The weirdest thing for me is that Recently Added doesn&rsquo;t seem to be based on when I actually purchased or manually downloaded the app. It&rsquo;s as if half of the apps shown are there because they happened to be the last ones migrated from my previous iPhone.<\/p>\n\n<p id=\"is-ios-14s-app-library-for-me-update-2021-01-22\">Update (2021-01-22): <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/rjonesy\/status\/1352008507747307520\">Ryan Jones<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/rjonesy\/status\/1352008507747307520\">\n<p>This is maddening. Spotlight vs App Library<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p id=\"is-ios-14s-app-library-for-me-update-2021-06-02\">Update (2021-06-02): <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jessesquires.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/01\/ios-14-app-library\/\">Jesse Squires<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.jessesquires.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/01\/ios-14-app-library\/\">\n<p>I think App Library is one of the best features added to iOS in the past few years.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>I only have one major complaint about the existing folders &mdash; why is there no &ldquo;Developer&rdquo; category?<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Finally, why is App Library still not available on iPad? App Library is essentially the iOS equivalent of Launchpad on macOS. As the iPad continues to evolve into a more desktop-like experience, it is baffling that App Library is iPhone-only. (And the same goes for home screen widgets, which are also missing on iPad.)<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>There&rsquo;s one main bug I continue to encounter: phantom notification badges. A folder in App Library will have a notification badge, but when I tap to open the folder, none of the apps have a badge.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chris Hynes: You find names appearing under icons to be irritating, especially since you&rsquo;ve long since memorized what all your app icons look like. When you click on something that looks like a folder, you&rsquo;ve always wanted it to launch the app under finger than open a folder like it does in the home screen. 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