Hi Tai,
The recent question about moving apps reminded me of your question
about searching for apps and increasing the number of home screens on
your iPhone or iPod Touch. I'll answer this in two parts. First,
there is a bug in the current OS that causes the iPhone or iPod Touch
to lock up when you type letters into the Search Field with VoiceOver
turned on. The number of characters that can be typed before your
device locks differs from user to user, and you might find that this
number changes (for either better or worse) after you apply an OS
update. It may also change if you restore your device from scratch.
The bug only occurs when VoiceOver is enabled when you type into the
search field, and the way to get around it is to type your search
terms into another app and then use the rotor gesture to either cut or
copy and paste them into the search field. I'll paste in instructions
from an earlier list post, that has been slightly streamlined.
<begin excerpt>
From: Esther
Date: 10 January 2010
Subject: A workaround for the iPhone OS 3.1.2 search bug
Hi all,
Many people have noted that when you try to run a Spotlight search on
the iPhone or iPod Touch with VoiceOver turned on that the screen that
the screen locks after you've typed a few letters. (The Spotlight
search screen is the one you reach by clicking the "Home" button once
from your main home screen. You'll hear "Search iPod (or iPhone),
text field, is editing". After you type in a few letters the screen
will lock, and take some time to recover. This only happens when
VoiceOver is enabled, and is a bug in OS 3 that has been reported to
Apple by a number of us. The workaround is to take advantage of
VoiceOver's support for copy, cut, and paste to paste your search term
into the edit field. For example, start at the main home screen for
your device and do the following.
1. Double tap the "Notes" app to open it
2. Flick right to the "Add" button and double tap anywhere on the
screen to create a new note
3. Type in your search terms on the "New Notes" screen
4. Use the rotor (e.g., twist two fingers clockwise) to set to "Edit"
5. Flick up and double tap to "Select All"
6. Flick up and double tap to "Cut"
7. Click the Home button to return to the main Home page, then click
the Home button a second time to move to the Spotlight search screen.
9. Use the rotor (e.g., twist two fingers counter clockwise) to set to
"Edit"
10. Flick up and double tap to paste in your search terms
11. Touch or flick through the list of matching results below the
search field and double tap to navigate to the search item of your
choice
<end excerpt>
In response to your second question, it is possible to get more than
eleven screens of apps displayed on your device by a procedure that
was outlined in "How to Get More Than 11 Pages of Apps (No
Jailbreak)", posted on the Apple iPhone School web site by Douglas on
January 28, 2010:
<http://www.appleiphoneschool.com/2010/01/28/how-to-get-more-than-11-pages-of-apps-no-jailbreak/#comments
>
<begin excerpt>
1. Create 11 pages of apps by dragging apps to all pages. There can be
blank spots.
2. Fill the first page & last page full of apps.
3. Drag the Voice Memos app to the very last page and last location in
the bottom right. (Not on the dock)
4. Move one app up from the dock so the Voice Memos app gets bumped
off. Hit the home button so they stop wiggling.
5. Hold down power button and turn off. Turn back on.
That’s it! When iPhone boots up it should create a new page. It seems
the best amount is 19 pages. That way you can still see all the dots.
I’ve also heard that it doesn’t work on older firmware. I’m using 3.1.2.
<end excerpt>
This is a bit tedious because you need to move the "Voice Memos" app
to the last page so that it is in the fourth column (furthest to the
right) and fourth row -- the bottom right corner for the displayed
apps that change with every screen and are positioned above the four
apps that appear in the dock (that get displayed on every screen). If
the first screen of apps is completely filled (not including the
"Voice Memos" app on that page), and the last screen of apps is also
completely filled with apps, with the "Voice Memo" app occupying row
4, column 4, then if you move the app that is currently in column 4 in
the dock up, it will boot the "Voice Memos" app off the last page. If
you then power down and restart your iPhone or iPod Touch, the "Voice
Memos" app will reappear on the first page of apps, you'll have a new,
mostly blank, page after that, and you will find that you now have an
extra page of visible apps (e.g., if you had the maximum of eleven
pages of visible apps before you went through these steps, you will
now find that your last page is number twelve). You can go through
this process of moving the fourth app you had in the dock back down
into the dock, moving the "Voice Memos" app off the first page and
moving in some other app to completely fill the first page, then
moving the "Voice Memos" app to row 4, column 4 of the last visible
page again. This isn't so hard, because you can just move the app
across the page in row 4, and hold the "Voice Memos" app at the lower
right edge of the screen until the pages stop updating because you've
reached the last visible screen. Then, when you lift your finger from
the app, it will be in the fourth column on the last page. If you
move the app that is in column 4 of the dock up, it will boot the
"Voice Memos" app off the last page. Then, power cycling your iPod
Touch or iPhone again will send the "Voice Memos" app back to the
first page, add another mostly blank page after the first page, and
increase the number of visible pages of apps by one (e.g., you might
have thirteen visible pages now).
You can go through this exercise of arranging to keep the first and
last pages of apps filled, with the "Voice Memos" app moved to the
bottom row and last column of the 4 by 4 grid of changeable apps on
the last visible page of apps, then booting it off the page by moving
the app in the last column of the dock up into the column 4 row 4
position. When you turn the iPhone or iPod Touch off and on again,
you'll continue to add an extra page up to a total of 19 pages for
apps. However, if you fail to fill the first and last page when you
power cycle your iPhone, you'll return to 11 pages for apps. Also, if
you sync apps with your iPhone or iPod Touch, you'll similarly be
returned to 11 pages of visible apps. It is convenient to organize
your apps with a different category on each page and not require full
pages of apps, but this is probably more work than it's worth!
Alternatively, you can type however many letters of the app name that
your iPhone will permit before locking up (and it might be just one
letter), and then flick down the list of entries till you find you
matched app to double tap.
HTH
Cheers,
Esther
Tai Blas wrote:
Hi all. I have so many apps that they will no longer fit on my
twelve home
screens. I am running Jaws with Windows XP and am wondering how I can
rearrange my apps so that a particular app can be on one of my
screens.
Also, how can I find an app that is not on one of the home screens? I
thought I could use the search feature for this but it crashed the
last time
I tried. Any help is greatly appreciated.
Thanks.
Tai
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