Jailbreak users get to have all of the fun with the iPhone’s Springboard. They are able to customize nearly every aspect of it with fancy themes, wallpapers, and even folders. They even have a way to include 5 applications per row and a 5-row keyboard. To counter that, or at least make us non-jailbreak users feel an itty bitty bit more equal, Apple will be giving us a couple more pages to allow more applications on the iPhone or iPod touch.
The current iPhone OS only supports a maximum of 9 pages, each containing 16 applications. If you do the math, that adds up to 144 total applications, but we can’t forget about the 4 applications on the dock. If you include those, users are allowed to carry up to 148 applications on their device at once. Not too shabby, but we want more!
Recently noticed by one eagle-eyed iPhone user, iPhone OS 3.0 beta 2 bumps the maximum pages up to 11, allowing users to add another 32 applications to their arsenal. With this release, we will have a nice round number of 180 possible applications.
Now all of you application junkies have something to look forward to in the iPhone OS 3.0 update.
[via Loop Blog]
Gotta love Categories. Never worry about that.
Oh and by the way, you can have 5 applications per column as well. 25 applications per page with all 3 turned on.
Thank God, it’s about time Apple added more pages. Still, 25 apps on a page and categories sounds even better. Does that slow performance on a jailbroken device?
You know, there could very well be more than just 2 extra pages. The user that took that screen shot may have only added two pages to his phone. I would hope that Apple allows more than just 11 pages. They could easily allow as many pages as the set of dots above the doc would fit. Possibly 15 or more. Certainly, with the new Spotlight feature, finding apps could be pretty easy.
I would still love to see them create a way to organize the apps via iTunes so that it’s not such a headache to arrange apps on those pages.
I guess it is possible, but if you were the guy who just noticed that there was an extra page, wouldn’t you keep on adding applications to find out just how many more?
I guess that depends on how many I had. I’m kind of an exception I suspect. I currently have 359 apps installed in iTunes. Quite a few have been unchecked so as to not install when syncing.
Something else I would like to see is a way to “remove or not sync” the default apps from Apple. I have replacements for quite a few of them, but I still have to have them taking up space on the springboard.
If your device is jailbroken, you can use the BossPrefs application to hide icons.
I’ve tried Categories…Its horribly slow and bloated…
Its easier to use 5-icon wide SpringBoard and 5-icon Dock.
I hope there is a better Icon organizer in v3.0
Good site, admin.
As ever, thanks to everyone who took part. ,
More than anything else, I hate looking stupid. ,
The maximum amount of pages so far is 11, i’ve added more applications than the device can allow and they show in iTunes, but don’t show on the iPhone. The only way to see these or use the extra applications is to find them through spotlight.
For me that isn’t good at all because if you forget the name (and lets face it, with so many apps you may just) then there’s no way of knowing what that app is.
As Dave M said, they could easily allow more pages just look at the bottom of the screen, there’s plenty of room for more dots these could even go over on the the next page after the max per screen has been reached.
Anyway lets hope for the avid app junky (me) that apple allow for more pages of apps than 11.
Still not enough, why not allow a scroll down pages