iPhone Ninjary: How Get More Than 11 Home Screens in iPhone 3.0
Daynah from PHP-Princess.net just couldn’t abide the meager 11 pages and paltry 180 apps provided by iPhone 3.0, so she went about forcing Apple’s SpringBoard home screen manager to give her more. How did she do it?
Check the link above for the details, but the but gist is filling up more than the default 11 pages (additional apps will still be hidden), then moving built-in apps to the last spot, then moving in an additional icon to force a built-in app off the 11th screen, the downloading an app to fill in the empty spot, and… presto — 12th page.
Ninja level work-around to be sure, but if you can’t live with 180 visible apps, and decide to experiment, let us know your results!
August 11th, 2009 at 12:44 pm
Although I would probably never need even fill 11 pages, that is pretty kool. KUDOS!!
August 11th, 2009 at 12:45 pm
Umm, why is there push notifications for Facebook??
August 11th, 2009 at 12:52 pm
i’m only @ page #3, but good to know.
tks.
August 11th, 2009 at 12:58 pm
Off course I have 350 apps on my iPhone so that really doesn’t impress me. I do not even use the springboard to launch an app. I use the iPhone FINDER. It is faster than looking for an application amongst all those icons.
Works for me.
August 11th, 2009 at 1:02 pm
@Shadowman
That’s not Push. If you have unread messages or chats, they’ll show up on the badge.
August 11th, 2009 at 1:12 pm
@ MCSwan,
Ummm… Badges are related to Push. They are both notifications.
August 11th, 2009 at 1:14 pm
@Shadowman,
They have Badge notifications because they have they’re iPhone jailbroken. Anytime someone mentions SpringBoard, it means they’re already jailbroken.
August 11th, 2009 at 1:23 pm
Non-push badges are available for apps like Facebook and the App Store. You open it and it displays a badge with the count of untended items after you close it.
It worked that way before iPhone 3.0 as well. And has for me for a while now.
(Note the badge is updated AFTER you open and close the app. Push is not involved in those circumstances.)
August 11th, 2009 at 1:26 pm
Badge notifications will show up without push. Whenever you ignore a notification while the app is open and then quit it, you’ll see the number on the icon. It won’t update.
Best example is go to App Store. If there are updates to your apps and you quit the app, you’ll see the number on the App Store icon. Once again, it won’t update unless you reopen the app.
In the case of Facebook, if you open Facebook and you have a message in your inbox but don’t read it and then close the app, you’ll see a ‘1′ on the Facebook icon.
It’s been this way at least since OS 2.0.
August 11th, 2009 at 1:27 pm
@WHAT!?! WHAT?!?!?!? springboard does not refer to a jailbroken app, it is the standard app that manages the iphones homescreen, it has nothing to do with jailbreaking. your thinking of summer/winter board.
and its not push notifications because unless you open the app the badge will not change. you wont get numbers there automatically if you have unread messages.
if you open the app, DONT read your unread messages and then close it that badge will show up.
August 11th, 2009 at 1:28 pm
That is not push, when you open and close the fb app, if you have unread messages and things like that, the app puts up a badge. It’s been like that since 2.x. The point of this article is that you can get more screens on a non-jailbroken iPhone so I’m pretty sure this is not a jb iPhone. Pretty cool if you ask me but I could never use that many apps personally, lol.
August 11th, 2009 at 1:45 pm
@What:
No, you mean WinterBoard. Springboard is standard.
August 11th, 2009 at 1:47 pm
Lol can some one else answer
August 11th, 2009 at 1:47 pm
Magically, this DID NOT work for me. But it was a nice way to make me download an app!
August 11th, 2009 at 1:53 pm
@WHAT!?! WOW you think you know everything and every piece of info u have mentioned has been WRONG!!!
August 11th, 2009 at 2:08 pm
Daynah mentions specifically in the link that her iPhone is NOT jailbroken. As others have said, notifications have been around since 2.0, PUSH notification is new in 3.0 (and Facebook is particularly annoying with notifications
)
SpringBoard is the default launcher
August 11th, 2009 at 2:23 pm
one word for this, CATAGORIES jailbreak application.
So much getter then multiple pages of applications. A simple menu type system that apple deliver with the iphone out of the box.
August 11th, 2009 at 2:24 pm
I have over 290 apps on my iphone. It is correct, when you fill your pages the apps are still downloaded to your iphone and you can find them by searching using ‘Spotlight’ (accessed by swiping to the right.) You can see how many apps you have by selecting settings, ‘General’ ‘About’ and it will display the number of apps you have loaded on your phone. (I send a list of all my apps to myself in an email so that I can remember the names of the apps that I want to look at when I have time to play with new ones.)
The way to access a list of the apps you have installed: Step 1: Run iTunes and sync your iPhone so that all your latest apps are displayed under ‘Applications’ (click on the left column to see all the app icons).
Step 2: Click on one of the icons on the right side and then using ‘cmd A’ select All the icons.
Step 3: Under ‘iTunes’ menubar … Select ‘Services’, ‘Mail’, ‘Send Selection’
Step 4: Enter your email address that you have on your iphone and you will receive a list of all the apps you have on your iPhone.
Step 5: Using Spotlight Search you can type the name of the apps and find them instantly. Click on the app name that is found and it will run.
I find it is faster just to type part of the name in the search of the apps I use all the time. Apple is going to allow developers to tag their apps with keywords, and I believe that will make it so easy to find our favorite apps by searching with Spotlight.
August 11th, 2009 at 3:10 pm
Running 3.01 did not get 12 screens but stocks has left my home screens
August 11th, 2009 at 4:19 pm
I hate a bunch of icons.
That’s why I love categories.
August 11th, 2009 at 4:23 pm
@WHAT!?! Please research the topic at hand before thinking you know everything. Springboard manages all the apps, etc. If it was only a jailbroken thing, why does the debugger screen in XCode show springboard? I don’t think Apple would add a jailbroken item to the development software.
August 12th, 2009 at 1:36 am
Once again Rene steps in to break up the fight! Darn it Rene! lol! I’ll step back from this rant but in gonna have to tr out this trick here. Does anyone have an idea on what happens when a) you delete/rearrange apps b) update firmware and c) add apps past the page12. Pg 13 and 14 etc after that or what?
August 12th, 2009 at 2:18 am
It’s hard to believe that so many people have so little else in their lives that is more important than the previous comments would suggest.
August 14th, 2009 at 4:53 am
@ truth
mee too hate so many icons on mah iphone it annoys me.. good thing i have a categories nyahaha
August 22nd, 2009 at 11:04 am
Didn’t work for me. It happened just like Niko said, Stocks went to the abyss…
September 6th, 2009 at 11:28 am
Same as Roger as well, my stock, and contact app disappeared, without a 12th screen appearing. Running 3.01. Will not re-appear even with synching.
October 1st, 2009 at 4:54 pm
This sucks! Nothing worked for me and now I gotta go back and re-organize and try to get all my screens back on iTunes (which really really really sucks in organizing icons. It doesn’t even work properly). I wish there was a way to save your phone’s state as is with everything in one easy step (haven’t tried backup) sort of like restore point in windows.
October 12th, 2009 at 7:47 am
This fix works with the latest update of 3.1.2 however the minute you sync with iTunes the extra page or pages goes away and it tries to clutter your non full pages with the other apps on the extra pages.
October 13th, 2009 at 12:39 am
instead of trying the trick with your stocks or contacts. try it with your voice recorder app. Move it to the last page, Bottom Right. Then flip back a page. drag one of those icons over to the last page bumping the voice app off the screen. fill the gap left on the second page with something anything an internet shortcut. make sure all spots are filled, then reboot your device and when you do you will notice that the voice recorder will be on the first page and the second page will be new and contain only the one app that the voice recorder bumped off of the first page. I have tried this up to 20 pages and it worked flawlessly, except for the moment I synced with 3.1.2 in itunes I was back to the standard 11 pages.. so if you dont upgrade to 3.1 you should be fine syncing without losing your pages.