iOS "app library" has been a huge improvement to the iPhone experience for me for this reason. I don't keep any apps on the home screen anymore, just widgets fo

iOS "app library" has been a huge improvement to the iPhone experience for me for this reason. I don't keep any apps on the home screen anymore, just widgets for the weather, quick contact buttons, etc. (I also have a widget to show my 'Today' mailbox from Mail.app, but it never updates properly, so I'll probably get rid of that.) For a long time I've had notifications turned off for all social media apps using their internal settings, but the newish "notification summary" feature has helped to cut down on noise from other apps that like to send stray notifications.