If you're an avid smartphone app user, it's likely your iPhone has loads of apps installed on it. Managing these apps becomes difficult as the number of apps grows. Luckily, your iPhone offers various ways to manage your apps.

One of these is to hide the unwanted home screen app pages. We'll show you how to do this on your iPhone.

Organizing Home Screen Pages

If you have loads of apps on your iPhone, sorting through various homepage screens to find the app you need can be tiresome.

Up until the release of iOS 14, clustering apps into folders was the easiest way to manage the installed apps. When iOS 14 released, it allowed users to move apps from their home screens to App Library.

This meant you could remove the unwanted app pages from your home screen to keep your iPhone a bit more organized.

How to Remove iPhone's Home Screen Pages

Follow these steps to remove pages from your home screen:

  1. Tap and hold on an empty area on any page of your home screen. Wait for the apps to jiggle.
  2. Tap the dot icons at the bottom of the screen. These dots represent the pages on your home screen.
  3. In the page preview, tap the circles to hide the pages. Unticked pages will be hidden from view. Then, tap Done.
  4. Once you're back in the home screen view, tap Done.

To unhide pages, repeat the process and tick the pages you want to reappear. Note that hiding pages will not affect your apps. You can still access your apps through the App Library.

Why Hide iPhone's Home Screen Pages?

iPhone Showing-Social Networks App Folder

There are many reasons you should consider hiding your home screen pages. Here are a few of them:

You Don’t Have Time to Organize Them

If you don’t have the energy to organize them into neat categories, you have the option to hide all of the apps that you don’t always need.

You Want a Neat Home Screen

A chaotic home screen can be an eyesore. Now that you can customize your iPhone’s home screen page, you can go minimalist without much effort.

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Just keep the essential apps or pop some widgets and get rid of all the rest---and voila, you now have a clean home screen.

You Want to Focus

While you can still see app notifications from the Notification Center---unless you've disabled them---the red icons on your apps can easily tempt you to check on them for new notifications. Hiding home screen pages save you from getting curious to check them out.

You Don’t Need Them Now

Suppose you have apps that you will need in the future or apps you only use in certain situations; you can simply hide them until you need them.

You Want to Compartmentalize

Most of the time, you access certain apps depending on what you're doing, the tasks at hand, and the time of the day. For example, if you are working, you might not want to be tempted by your social media apps to check for new updates.

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You can hide and unhide pages depending on the “mode” you are in. You can have a page dedicated to work and a page dedicated to social media. You can also create dedicated pages for hobbies and lifestyles like fitness and baking.

Personalize Your iPhone's Home Screen

The ability to hide home screen pages helps you become more organized, efficient, and productive. This is because you can customize your home screen the way you want, and this way it only has the items that you really need.