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> I really love the new app drawer. My hundred barely-used apps are now neatly stowed there while I keep a single (Yes, one) Home Screen. I hop between Android

> I really love the new app drawer. My hundred barely-used apps are now neatly stowed there while I keep a single (Yes, one) Home Screen. I hop between Android and iOS every few years and was quite excited for iOS to check this basic functionality box right as I came back. Shame they had to ruin it by forcing the absolutely nonsensical categories on you with no option for a plain alphabetical list. Just give me the UI that shows up when you tap the app drawer search button, but as soon as I swipe to the drawer and without showing the keyboard. It's right there, the functionality I want is available, but as usual Apple screws it up for power users. In fact: do regular users like searching their app drawer for a possibly relevant category and hoping it has what they want? It doesn't help that the available categories and their ordering change every few days and/or whenever you install a new app. And worse yet is that the same application can show up in 3-4 different categories crowding out the one app you're looking for that only exists in one.

antipaul 6y ago
I think it's fine. You get default categories which have advantages* or alphabetical order - which you can also get by swiping down in the app drawer. tap and hold scrollbar to get to the position you need. *in default view, I can tap on the larger icons to open the app right away. Or I can tap on the smaller ones to get all the apps in that category. Then, there aren't that many categories and the predictiveness actually seems quite good
- reificator 6y ago
  > You get default categories which have advantages [snip] in default view, I can tap on the larger icons to open the app right away. Sure, I've heard of homescreen icons before. > or alphabetical order - which you can also get by swiping down in the app drawer. Which means three gestures to get to the alphabetical one including hiding the keyboard. > tap and hold scrollbar to get to the position you need. Yep, that's a positive. Just wish I could get straight there. The app drawer is for the apps I use infrequently. Which means I'm less likely to have internalized their app icons, and I can't view the text in the default view so I have no idea what I'm looking for. The only text I get is the category name, like Other for Phillips Hue or Creativity for Twitch. YouTube? Entertainment. Twitch? Creativity. And Podcasts goes under Entertainment despite the fact that I have an Education category already. The categories make no sense to me and I have no way to rectify that, I already use homescreen folders for categorization, and without text it's a pain to find what I'm after, especially if it's hidden inside the "fourth slot".
MBCook 6y ago
> Shame they had to ruin it by forcing the absolutely nonsensical categories on you with no option for a plain alphabetical list. Swipe down on the app library screen and you get the alphabetical list. Same gesture you used to do a search from any screen.
- reificator 6y ago
  Yep, that's what I was referring to here > Just give me the UI that shows up when you tap the app drawer search button, but as soon as I swipe to the drawer and without showing the keyboard.

antipaul 6y ago

I think it's fine. You get default categories which have advantages* or alphabetical order - which you can also get by swiping down in the app drawer. tap and hold scrollbar to get to the position you need. *in default view, I can tap on the larger icons to open the app right away. Or I can tap on the smaller ones to get all the apps in that category. Then, there aren't that many categories and the predictiveness actually seems quite good

reificator 6y ago
> You get default categories which have advantages [snip] in default view, I can tap on the larger icons to open the app right away. Sure, I've heard of homescreen icons before. > or alphabetical order - which you can also get by swiping down in the app drawer. Which means three gestures to get to the alphabetical one including hiding the keyboard. > tap and hold scrollbar to get to the position you need. Yep, that's a positive. Just wish I could get straight there. The app drawer is for the apps I use infrequently. Which means I'm less likely to have internalized their app icons, and I can't view the text in the default view so I have no idea what I'm looking for. The only text I get is the category name, like Other for Phillips Hue or Creativity for Twitch. YouTube? Entertainment. Twitch? Creativity. And Podcasts goes under Entertainment despite the fact that I have an Education category already. The categories make no sense to me and I have no way to rectify that, I already use homescreen folders for categorization, and without text it's a pain to find what I'm after, especially if it's hidden inside the "fourth slot".

MBCook 6y ago

> Shame they had to ruin it by forcing the absolutely nonsensical categories on you with no option for a plain alphabetical list. Swipe down on the app library screen and you get the alphabetical list. Same gesture you used to do a search from any screen.

reificator 6y ago
Yep, that's what I was referring to here > Just give me the UI that shows up when you tap the app drawer search button, but as soon as I swipe to the drawer and without showing the keyboard.