Your iOS device is installed with too many apps, and you feel trouble finding apps easily from your iPhone/ iPad/ iPod Touch home screen. App Location of most used apps from the iOS device home screen should be accessible on a single device, but on different home screen layouts on different Apple devices, we can’t find and open the app quickly. But here’s the solution on ways to find apps on iPhone/ iPad/ iPod Touch.
Note: in any case, if you missed or removed the app from the home screen apps, you need to reset the home screen layout from your iOS device. Although you continue to use the hidden apps without unhiding the app from the screen, you can do that by using the below alternate stapes to find apps on iPhone/ iPad and iPod Touch.
4 Ways to Find an App on iPhone
1. Using Spotlight Search
You can use Spotlight Search on your iPhone to quickly find and open apps. Here’s how to do it: make sure the App is whitelisted under Spotlight search from your iPhone settings. Go to the Settings app on iPhone > Siri & Search > Scroll the Apps list > Enable Show App in Search.
How to use Spotlight Search,
- Swipe down from the middle of your iPhone’s home screen to access Spotlight Search.
- Type the name of the app you want to open. As you type, Spotlight will show you a list of suggested apps.
- Tap on the app you want to open from the list of search results.
- The app will open and you can start using it.
That’s it.
Alternatively,
Latest iOS 15 or later iOS users can use the App library on iPhone. Swipe left on your iPhone’s home screen to go to the last page of your home screen pages. See the App Library Screen. Search your App using Search Box appears at the top of the screen.
2. Using Siri
Not all time is useful after prerequisite conditions about the use of Siri. We can efficiently use Siri to open up the app by speech or human voice. But the command should be ideally like this: ” Here I want to open the app store, then commands should be Lunch App Store or Open App Store – Open/ Launch “Name of the app”.
- Start Siri > Say Hey Siri or Press and hold Side Power Button for a long time. and on the Home screen iPhone, Press the home button a long time from any screen on an iOS device. Say your command, Like open Healh app.
3. App Not Showing on the Home screen
In this case, the custom home screen layout might be changed, or wants to refresh all the app positions. Then you can reset or rearrange home screen layout.
In iOS 15 or later:- Go to Settings > General > Transfer or Reset iPhone > Reset > Reset Home Screen Layout.
In iOS 14 & Earlier:- Setting > General > Reset > Reset Home Screen Layout.
4. Still not find the app: Know from app store
Go to the app store on iDevice, and open it. Updates > Purchased > My Purchases > All or Not on This iPhone/ iPad/ iPod. Not on This device apps are removed/ Deleted, all installed apps list.
Apps will be placed on default locations.
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