slo’s TUESDAY 9/20 poll - Organizing Apps

[Mysterian]

Originally, zero organization. But now I know where they all are so if they were moved I would feel discombobulated and disorganized. LOL

There's probably an app to help get your apps organized.

 

[Kitty 34]

Oops, read the thread before finishing my first cup of coffee, Slo. I thought I read do you have apps like for example games.

As far as organization.....no not organized on my phone.

 

[fla4fun]

Somewhat organized. The ones I use most are on page one, ones I use occasionally on page two, and ones I use once or twice a year on page three.

 

[tvguy]

I utilize my phone for very little; calls, texts and checking email while I’m out of the office primarily. I have as few apps as possible and I hate using them. Like @RedAngie said, they are wherever they decided to go when I downloaded them; mostly all on the home screen because there are so few.

A brief aside for Canadians and travellers to Canada - the ArriveCan app will no longer be needed as of September 30. I will be thrilled to delete that sucker forever!!

I pretty much deleted the majority of the apps on my phone when I retired as they were work related. Things like Okta Verify. The hospital group my Doctors belong to came out with an app during the pandemic that tracked where you were so they knew when you arrived in the parking lot and automatically checked you in. They had you wait in your car until they sent you a message that you could come into the building, but they stopped using that a while ago, too many people objected to being tracked.
I use the flashlight app, but my cell phone is primarily a texting device, and an emergency phone. I do use the map app once in a while.
Just haven't gotten into all the app stuff. And one of my cousins did everything from banking to e-mail on his phone but then had his phone hacked. It took him months to get if fixed as the hacker managed to change all his security questions and personal information in such a way that the bank and G-mail were all convinced HE was the hacker.

 

[mrodgers]

Now phones are big again and I can't use it one handed or my hand will open apps hit with my palm trying to reach an app icon that is over on the left side.

Thus, my most used apps like camera, notepad, calculator, unit converter, and I have a time clock app to track my time outside of the work clock on the right side of 2 separate screens so they are easy to grab with my thumb when only holding with one hand.

I don't use my phone much. I don't surf or do anything recreationally on it. It's a phone to me and has some useful things so I don't have to carry a separate camera, calculator, calendar, watch, etc in my pockets at work. I don't surf the internet or read Disboards on it. I don't use FB much.

It's a communication device between me and my children is it's main use. Else it just sits in my pocket or sits on the couch next to me (sometimes I use it as a TV remote to search on YT for something rather than using the TV remote and TV interface.)

 

[Dan Murphy]

I would say organized as opposed to very organized. And only because I have a number of apps that I don't really use but don't get rid of. I have a lot of room and therefore not under the gun to uninstall.

With any new phone, I turn off the setting that adds icons to the home page when installed. They only go intro my apps pages, in alphabetical order. If I want them on my home page, I'll copy them to there myself. My five most used apps, phone, Chrome, contacts, calendar and messages are locked at the bottom of every home page. I have four folders on the page 2 home page for Google, Verizon, Weather and WDW (WDW folder is used for the apps that I use while there, though not much use of that for too long ) My two home pages are used for my most used apps, in addition to my aforementioned five locked ones, though some of those really should be removed from there and relegated to my general apps pages, or just uninstalled. In the general apps pages, I also have folders for Amazon and Samsung.

In the past, it used to take me several weeks of organizing when I got a new phone to get it the way I wanted it. Now, with Samsung's Smart Switch, setting up a new phone is a breeze. Sets up the new phone about 95% exactly the way the previous phone was set up, apps, folders, locations, settings, almost everything.

Some day I will be very organized.

 

[WDWEPCOT]

Almost exactly this. Everything in single row folders at the top of the screen in categories that make sense to me with the most important ones in the dock for easy access. On the next page I have a row of apps I use daily under the folders. The only exception to this is when we’re doing something like going to Disney or flying. I will pull those apps from their folders and put them on the Home Screen since I’m using them all day for days at a time. Now that we have the ability for widgets on the lock screen I’ll put them there and it won’t bug me having them out and about. My contacts are also hyper organized with full names, nicknames, birthdays, who they are to me or my family, all numbers associated with them and work and home addresses as well. I have all doctors, insurance, customer service lines and numbers for frequented stores and restaurants etc. I get teased about all this but if they need info guess who they ask?

Both DDs do the customized widget thing but DS and DH’s phones are utter chaos. Who keeps their messaging or settings app in the middle of a bunch of gaming apps on page two? Those two. It’s a little surprising with DS because he’s very much like me when it comes to organizing our things. Give us storage containers and we’re happy campers.

Omg - we be twins - we must be related I love this !!! Your awesome !!!

 

[fly girl]

There's probably an app to help get your apps organized.

My brain is my organizational app!!

It's all organized from memorization on where they are in my phone.

 

[Mysterian]

My brain is my organizational app!!

It's all organized from memorization on where they are in my phone.

There's probably another app to help you memorize your apps.

And there may even exist another app to inform us when such new apps are released.

An infinite regress of apps, Fly Girl!

 

[CdnCarrie]

To clarify I have -
Finance folder with my banking apps.
Food folder for food delivery and restaurant review apps.
Hobbies folder with my ancestry app, couple games, city library app, etc.
Communication folder with email, kid's school, twitter, etc but rarely use anything but email .
Travel folder with DL, WDW, Expedia, etc.
Money saving folder with loyalty points app, etc.
Productivity folder with good drive.
News folder with CBC, local newspaper app, etc.
Important stuff folder with health insurance app, utility company app, vet app.
Shopping app for a couple things like Amazon app.

I use my phone for everything. Google and Safari are not in a folder.

 

[Dan Murphy]

I use my phone for everything.

It really is scary as to how much we depend on our phones. I also use mine for everything.

 

[Kathryn Merteuil]

I am somewhere between somewhat organized and organized. I keep the most used stuff on the 1st page, and lesser stuff on page 2 and page 3 is a free for all.

 

[BlueStarryHat]

I don't have a lot of apps, but what I do have is very organized in that I don't like a lot of stuff on my home screen so I put them a swipe over. A swipe, is that what you call it?

 

[disneychrista]

All apps are in folders on one page. Entertainments, Games, Banking, Restaurants, Shopping, Health, News, etc. I people scrolling through screen after screen trying to find the apps they are looking for and I don't understand why they don't have it more organized.

 

[scbruno]

Mine are organized however i use very little of them on my phone.

 

[design_mom]

Slightly organized. I have a few folders where I keep similar stuff. (all of my store apps/loyalty apps, except the ones I use on a weekly basis, are in a folder. All my apps related to work are in a folder, etc.) But in general, they're pretty much wherever they landed. I only have 3 pages though, so I do pretty good job at remembering where they were/recognizing by icon. And there's always the search feature!

 

[leebee]

OK... who is the other person (besides me) who doesn't have a phone??

 

[ronandannette]

OK... who is the other person (besides me) who doesn't have a phone??

Well, I don't have a phone of my own, if that counts. For 16 years I've just used my work cell (and email address) for everything. That's part of the reason I don't have many apps downloaded; I need permission from IT for each one. I guess I'll be kind of screwed for communications (contacts, text-chains, personal e-mails) when I finally leave this employer. The reason I don't spend more time worrying about that is because our current financial plan includes me working there until I'm dead.

 

[mrodgers]

It really is scary as to how much we depend on our phones. I also use mine for everything.

I could lose my phone tomorrow and not even be bothered with it other than it's my communication device to my kids while they are away in school. It's merely a time waster when I'm sitting waiting on something when not being used as a phone.

It's not scary, I think it's sad how addictive people are with their phones. I also don't think people depend on utilizing phones for productive stuff. They are addicted at texting and social media so much they ignore everything important around them like the important information being presented in a meeting to me driving on the same roads as them in which I have to take so much more extra precaution because of everyone's phone addictions.