Introduction

Congratulations! If you’re reading this right now, you survived of 2020. While last year was full of absolute disasters, Apple still shipped new products, and iOS 14 and iPadOS 14 were anything but disastrous.

If you’re anything like me, you carefully arrange your first iPhone Home screen, stash some commonly used, but less-important apps on the second Home screen, and then every page after that is increasingly chaotic. Too many apps, not enough time.

Thanks to the App Library, you can now quickly hide entire pages of apps on your iPhone and clean things up. iOS 14 has also reworked widgets and now lets you embed them on your Home screens.

There many other big changes in iOS 14. The iPad’s Picture in Picture mode is now available ...

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