Organizing Apps
Every app you install appears as an icon on your Home screen. As Chapter 1 makes clear, each Home screen holds no more than 20 icons, and you can create up to 11 Home screens. In other words, the maximum number of apps you can have icons for (yours plus the original Apple ones) is 180.
Making an effort to organize your Home screens logically is probably worth your while. Put games on one screen, productivity tools on another, and so on.
Tip
This may be the coolest trick in the book: Just because there are only 180 spots for icons on your Home screens doesn't mean you can't install more than that. You can! You can keep going until the iPhone is out of memory. Only 180 icons show up—but you can still find and open the others by using Spotlight (Spotlight: Global Search). (Once you're into the 200's, that's probably how you'll want to find them anyway.)
Deleting Apps: the iPhone-iTunes Relationship
When you decide you've had enough of a certain program, you can delete it.
In fact, you have two places where this deleting can (and sometimes must) take place: on the phone or on your computer (in iTunes).
On the iPhone. You can delete an app from the iPhone easily enough. Just hold your finger down on any Home-screen icon. After a second, all the icons begin to jiggle; you've just entered Home-screen Editing Mode. A tiny X appears on the top-left corner of every app you've installed. Tap the X on the app you're done with.
The iPhone wants to know two things. First, are you sure? ...
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