Clear Out the Clutter on Your iPhone With These Simple Changes

Keep iPhone in order: 11 quick tips

The cluttered environment can make people feel uneasy, and this feeling is not limited to physical space, but also affects your iPhone. Here are some tips for quickly cleaning up iPhone clutter.

1. Reorganize the home screen

The clutter on the iPhone home screen is mainly caused by unorganized apps and undeleted useless apps. Organizing the home screen can effectively reduce visual interference.

You can organize applications by frequency of use to facilitate finding common applications; you can also create folders by categories (such as social media, travel, finance, health) to reduce the number of home screen pages.

If you want to move multiple applications at the same time, you can stack them together and move them. Press and hold an app long, and after it starts to shake, hold the app with one finger and click on other apps with the other finger.

You can also change the display mode and application icon size to change the appearance of the home screen. Press and hold the home screen, click Edit in the upper left corner, and then click Custom.

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Here, you can change the app icon size to a larger size for a cleaner look and set dark, light, or automatic display modes according to your preferences.

3. Disable the app home screen

One way to quickly organize your iPhone home screen is to hide the entire home screen page. You can use this method to hide application pages that are not commonly used but do not want to delete.

To disable the app's home screen, press and tap Edit.

Click "Edit Page" to uncheck the home screen page you want to hide. After hiding the page, the "-" (minus sign) symbol will appear on the page. Click this symbol to completely delete the page and its application.

4. Removing app from home screen

The last step in organizing your iPhone home screen is to remove the apps from the home screen without permanently deleting them. This hides them from the home screen, but remains in the app repository.

To remove an application from the home screen, press and hold the screen, tap the "-" (minus) symbol on the application, and then tap "Remove from home screen".

I used to be too lazy to remove the app completely from the home screen, but now I find this is one of the most effective ways to free up unnecessary space and reduce clutter.

Finally, deleting apps that are no longer used or rarely used can save some iPhone storage space, make room for new apps you want to try, and help you understand which apps are actually necessary for your daily use of.

5. Use minimalist wallpaper

Apart from app tidying up, the simple way to eliminate clutter on home screen is to use simple minimalist wallpapers instead of cluttered and crowded wallpapers. Not only is minimal wallpaper pleasing to the eye, but it won't look messy even if you create more "clutter" pages with app folders, or keep the home screen with more apps.

To avoid clutter, I tend to use simple home screen wallpapers and more eye-catching lock screen wallpapers. You can long press and hold the lock screen to bring up the home screen gallery, or go to "Settings" > "Wallpaper" to change the wallpaper.

6. Removing redundant widgets

Many native and third-party applications offer interesting widgets that facilitate quick access to features and application information. But sometimes, widgets can overcrowd the home screen page. You may also have widgets that are barely used and they will only take up space in the application.

To remove a widget from the home screen, press and click "Remove widget".

You can always add new widgets to see what works best for your home screen. To add a widget, press and hold a part of the home screen, click Edit, and then click Add widget to browse. Stacking widgets saves space and avoids showing too much information at once.

7. Cleaning the Control Center

Starting with iOS 18, the Control Center is a highly customizable part of your phone. You can add native and third-party apps, shortcuts, smart home controls, and more—all of which can create clutter.

To edit the Control Center, swipe down from the upper right corner of the iPhone, and then click the " " button in the upper left corner. Click the "-" (minus sign) to delete the icon, or click "Add Control" to add the required content.

You can add important shortcuts to the lock screen, as well as anything you want to access quickly, instead of scrolling to find in Control Center.

8. Delete duplicate contacts

The cluttered contact list is inefficient. A quick way to clean up this app and search for contacts is to spend some time deleting or merging duplicate contacts. To do this, click the Discover Duplicate notification that pops up in the Contacts tab, and then click View Contacts. You can click "Merge All" to merge duplicate contacts.

You can also update the Favorites tab and clear voicemail to eliminate unnecessary clutter.

9. Part the photo library

One of the main problems I face when opening the Photos app is how overwhelming it is to find the desired photo in a duplicate or unnecessary photo. iOS 18's "Photo" redesign can help, but it's not the perfect solution.

Batch deletion of photos you no longer need, creating organized albums that are beyond the available range, and customizing your collection are all good starting points. You can also use the Custom and Reorder option (located at the end of your photo gallery) to rearrange or hide collections to reduce clutter.

10. Management Notifications

Filtering notification noise can be difficult, especially when you are working hard to be productive.

You can manage notifications by going to Settings > Notifications, selecting the app you don't want to receive notifications, and then turning off Allow notifications. You can also control the type of alerts you receive from each application, or turn off Time-sensitive notifications to prevent non-priority notifications from staying on the lock screen.

Another way to remove noise without prohibiting notifications is to turn on "Focus" and mute notifications in a planned session. You can turn on Focus mode in Settings > Focus, where you can add, customize, sync and schedule focus sessions. Adding "focus" to Control Center can help you start a session quickly, or you can trigger it with automation.

11. Carry "Spring Cleaning"

A good rule of thumb for creating an orderly iPhone experience is to do a symbolic "spring cleaning" as much as possible, retaining those "bringing you happiness" apps, files, contacts, and photos. This can also be extended to applications like "Reminders" and "Calendar" which include removing periodic events you no longer logged or last year's reminder. You can also clean up your Memo app and organize or delete memos that you no longer need.

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Cleaning your iPhone can be a time-consuming but very beneficial process. Using these tips can help you start creating a more organized, cleaner look for your home screen and apps, and throw away things you no longer need.

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