> Doesn’t help if you have pages of apps and have to swipe five or six times to get to the App Library
There’s another hidden feature: swiping on the row of dots near the bottom of the screen lets you scroll through the pages at speed.
Om iOS 16, you have to turn off the search field on the home page, since it replaces the dots. Fortunately, you can still swipe down to reveal the old search field.
You don’t have to turn the search field off at all. Just swipe the search field.
This is a great example of how discovery works. Before replying, I just tried swiping and it worked.
Edit: normal swiping between screens switches the search field to dots. This got me to thinking, how much of this is a discovery problem (which I’m increasingly finding harder to believe) to one of users not paying attention.
Swiping on the search field works (I had already forgotten that), but when you have a lot of pages, as I do, the feedback is much worse, as it does not expand the field to accomodate all the dots. It’s amazing what difference such small details make.
Edit: The feedback is unimportant if all you want is to swipe to one end, if course; which is what prompted this subthread.
There’s another hidden feature: swiping on the row of dots near the bottom of the screen lets you scroll through the pages at speed.
Om iOS 16, you have to turn off the search field on the home page, since it replaces the dots. Fortunately, you can still swipe down to reveal the old search field.