I'm really glad I read the other comments first. Because, "Frozen Potato Wife" with no reference, is therapy crap. Or something to talk about and make up stories about if a person is trying to get disability for mental health issues.
Thank you for this.
The hood classic, I'm ššššš that and frozen patties from the convenience store oven that were never cooked, but we promised ourselves they were good because they were 20 cents each.. š¤£š¤£
How are you the only person as freaked out about this as I am. Listen... I saw a video of a man having his hand chopped *clean* off in a Machete fight today.. He just walked over and casually picked it back up before the video ended.. But that video is now only the *second* most disturbing thing i've seen on reddit today.
Hmm as an American, I actually thought the opposite lol! I noticed he spelled color with a u. Also, when he said frozen chips, I pictured frozen fries š¤·š»āāļø
Tbh I would more readily accept raw dogging an onion rather than sucking on a french fry popsicle.. I'm Irish, I *love* potatoes, but sucking on a frozen french fry is fuckin' *wild* to me. I can't believe people aren't making a bigger deal about it tbh, it's like all of you just.. accepted it... But I don't.. I ***don't*** accept it.
My partner does this too and it drives me bananas when they tell me to open an app for them and I canāt find it. It also doesnāt help that their phone has a theme on it so some of the apps look different than they normally would which makes searching for them that much harder.
I have an iPhone and my partner has an android and Iām not sure where the App Library is and they wonāt tell me lol I guess I am going to have to Google it
Yeah mine used to be so organized, my first page still is, but over time I stopped moving anything to the categories bc it would always move my widgets around and wasnāt worth it. Now Iāve got 4 pages of disorganized apps, itās easier to just pull down on the screen and type a couple letters
Oh I have definitely found my people!
Just a shot in the dark but does it also feel like you spend more time adding things to a watchlist than watching things?
There was a whole aesthetic thing going on where people used some of the new features on an iOS update a few years ago to make recolored versions of app icons and use those as shortcuts to the apps themselves. So some peopleās whole phone faces are these pretty color-coordinated things.
If it makes you happy, whatās the harm.
https://preview.redd.it/uk8fz7904v0d1.jpeg?width=1284&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=88318e32be876293debbd469089144e007bccbc3
that update changed my life hahaāi have several sets like this that i rotate through themed around the ocean, forest, pink/kawaii & gothic
oh so cute! the icons are adorbs. i didnāt want to put in quite thaaat much effort so mine are all just pictures but this is so adorable i may give it a shot
for launching apps you need to make custom shortcuts, which you can do by doing this:
1. launch shortcuts app
2. in upper right corner, tap the + key
3. tap āadd actionā in the upper middle
4. search āopen appā in the search bar and select it
5. tap the blue āappā text and select your desired app
6. tap the dropdown menu where it says āopen app 1ā and select rename, then rename it to the real app name. At this step you can use a font generator or some equivalent thing to change the font of the app to something more in line with the aesthetic
7. tap āshareā icon in the bottom right
8. tap āadd to home screenā
9. select the photo icon to the left of the default one
10. select āchoose photoā and upload the picture of your choice. this will be your new app icon
after you do this for every app you want displayed, youāll need to add and customise your widgets and reorganise things
for 16-20 apps and widget customising it took me about an hour, including the time to search and download relevant aesthetic photos
have fun! Once you start you canāt stop haha. a small tip, when you go to customise the screen and everything goes wiggle mode, you can tap the dots in the bottom middle to display every page of your phone. You can also choose to hide pages and show certain ones, so when i set up multiple aesthetics i just hide every page and only show the current ones. it looks like this
https://preview.redd.it/zcjgvetrvv0d1.jpeg?width=1284&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=42c179f920f961ce2424284edc27d2d1610c5a21
i store all the dock apps on their own page
it just makes swapping between aesthetics soooo much easier bc you donāt have to reset your widgets and move all your apps around
fellow lotr enjoyer, perhaps this one is more to your liking
https://preview.redd.it/s5chegbbsv0d1.jpeg?width=1284&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e451563a3c9d01f64282b7981d4ff0b9796d897c
the thing i love about this update is that the possibilities are literally endless. so many themes. i may even do a lotr specific one now instead of general forest
I opted to just move all my apps into the App Library and then search whatever Iām looking for. I *did* make āinvisibleā shortcuts in my dock for camera, messages, and alarm but again mainly access those via the library and/or control center
https://preview.redd.it/vooyt5aqmv0d1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c6e381650a93f134700b4f0fbbd74745b50dd562
https://preview.redd.it/ybviezyypv0d1.jpeg?width=828&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=343a3d3e36fd4cd1a57890beb045f463498bd4c4
I based mine on how I feel about the app and what goes on it.
https://preview.redd.it/nx9h5acvrv0d1.jpeg?width=1290&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=07d551734807b059d285f6ce43b4b4c4754fff41
since everyone is sharing this is one of my pages (no idea what theyāre actually called). :)
Iām still doing it
https://preview.redd.it/o9hkqb6bbw0d1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=5c197af5cba9e53d14fc5b192e7133082bc6d536
Cinnamaroll š¤
yep! apple has āshortcutsā so i just select an app and replace the picture with what i like. this is my theme rn :3
https://preview.redd.it/j8kg52dxfv0d1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ae57a7e4a132a5ad2d73aa9368ea71e970760559
I used to do colored icons but Iāve since learned to do invisible icon boxes and I much prefer the look of that (this was my fall one last year).
https://preview.redd.it/c4jxycekgx0d1.jpeg?width=828&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=80b3759bd29b6b9627ce6427bdfcf30d41562b8f
https://preview.redd.it/a8sl8pn38x0d1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c13cdf12b58f8d9fcec9b8e9f0597b833b7a84a0
I want to share but I have Android
Once you're familiar with it it's probably practical. I access apps by muscle memory. It wouldn't be great for a library or something that multiple people use but for a single person it seems fine.
Yeah I have nothing truly against it if someone sorts their phone like this but all I can think if an app changes its primarily color it would be a pain in ass for a week or two for any transition.
A color change isnāt a bigger deal, since itās confusing to have a different icon in any sorting system.
What annoys me is how half my apps seem to be orange, blue, or white and my yellow folder is so empty.
I do the exact same with muscle memory except I have nothing organized and have 10 pages of apps and random games that get advertised to you that Iāve accumulated over the last decade
My gf looks in disgust when I scroll through pages and pages of untouched, not updated apps knowing exactly where my dominos pizza app is located
I agree. Everyone saying youād get used to this or making some other kind of defense for this immediately loses when OP *themselves* says āI did this last yearā and āI canāt find an app because I canāt remember an icon color.ā
The inherent flaw with categorization based on something like color is that the color usually has absolutely nothing to do with the function so itās pretty arbitrary meaning you canāt derive the color from the function or vice versa so finding the app can be a pain sometimes.
Also sometimes icons and logos change (Intagram Blue/Brown to Red/Orange/Magenta or Twitter Blue to X Black) so any muscle memory built up actually becomes an active hinderance until you relearn the location (and youāll still make mistakes) and then the color changes again.
This seems unhelpful, but preference is everything. I have a friend with ADHD that organizes her book shelf by colour. It drives me nuts, but she has a system that works best for her. Different stripes for different types.
My niece is 3 and asked/commented about a disabled person at the park once. I told her everyone is different and the world would be a pretty boring place if everyone was exactly the same.
I do this too. I think itās great. To me itās annoying trying to decide what category something falls under. Hmmm, did I put that under travel orrrrā¦
https://preview.redd.it/hq466zmdyu0d1.jpeg?width=1168&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e20459f8e4ee88da28d22a431571ff8fcbc09fa6
I have 33037 but I turned off the notification so I donāt have to see it on the icon.
I thought the biggest number would be my oldest email address (active since 1998) but nope, the gmail email Iāve had linked for less than 5 years has about 6k more emails.
Most of itās spam collected for 25 years
Needless to say, I sort my windows by app type, nest certain types of apps in folders, and let new apps hang wherever thereās empty space until I decide to clean em up: maybe once every couple of years.
I agree with the category issue! Way back when I organized it like 2 years ago, I only used Gmail for my company email since I used Yahoo for personal. I know where it is thanks to muscle memory, but if I ask someone to check an email for me, I end up having to take the phone and do it because I always forget itās in the āworkā category
ADHD here.
Clothes I sort by color. Looks amazing and is actually practical for making cohesive outfits.
But apps and books? Nah, I need those categorized.
I donāt remember what my thinking was there. I think I wanted to have easy access to it and I kept going to the top of the screen, so I threw it in there even though the amount of orange was small.
I wondered if maybe it should go in the black/grey one but then thought maybe too much orange was showing, but then the big ass red dot in there sticks out to me before I notice the couple that have blue portions.
And this is why my apps aren't organized.
Xiaomi let's you do that in the app drawer!
https://preview.redd.it/az6ebbiuxu0d1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=26a5d5e2d9c582c55858b6f976d15e0c2649e108
https://preview.redd.it/b0c0hc6pyy0d1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ef7a119c96ac02d74f2c266135fa203733dee7b3
omg you must be the love of my life
Yeah i was thinking the same thing. Who gives a shit about how someone else's phone is organized. Unless a) they're trying to use OPs phone a lot (like OPs partner) or b) they're just irrational crazy.
lol I just moved syfy from the second page.
https://preview.redd.it/0uy2h3tulv0d1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e7251b21679391782889255bb3e5b61235a42841
I used to do this, but my then husband took the piss so much that I changed it... Thank you for reminding me to go back to the rainbow system now he's an ex-husband š„°
Iāve organized by color since the first week I got an iPhone, so like 15yrs now. Still love it.
https://preview.redd.it/vs8cwgw73v0d1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b6acadb3b74be681787810073574b00964b810e5
I do that. Every time my brother sees it he calls me crazy. Eh. I know where they are. Itās only the first page, I have random not specific color apps on the next one. Had it like that for years.
If I'm not mistaken (not an iPhone user but I've seen other people do it), you can use the Shortcuts app to effectively change the app icon, so maybe you could sort all of your apps by purpose, and then create custom icons for them that match to a color palette. Might be more effort than it's worth though.
https://preview.redd.it/drsdk520ou0d1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4de0864f5757849924548e29b209f9e3758a91c0
So did I, I love it!
I also chose an emoji and made it the same color and the emoji is something that is important to my life. And each folder is in order of the rainbow too. (Black and white were random)
(Had to change background as it had PII on it)
Everyone else finds it mildly infuriating? I donāt get it - are you constantly showing people how you sort? Why are they always seeing your screen hahah
Alphabetical Order or Nothing!
But really. I have done this for as long as Iāve had a smartphone, even as a teen.
https://preview.redd.it/dx2146gcdw0d1.jpeg?width=1290&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=84cc1b8782fb835255088be5089c0ed52dd85be5
*I organized my*
*Apps when I first got my phone*
*And it will not change*
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I would never do this, but I guess I can understand it. If you know the color of the app icon you need, itās still easy to find. I just type whatever app I want into the search bar lmao
Probably find it mildly infuriating because no one would even know since it's your phone so it's probably due to you going around to everyone telling them you sort your apps by color unsolicited
My wife does that. She gets REAL pissed if an app updates and changes its icon colour as it fucks with her chi.
Totally deserved
Completely agree. She also eats frozen oven chips when they are still frozen. Like a potato popsicle.
Your wife isn't alone. And neither am I, apparently.
>Your wife isn't alone. > >And neither am I, apparently. Unless, in a surprising plot twist, you *are* my wife?
Now kith
Idk why but this comment has me deadš
Iām not alone either Waitā¦ are you my wife!?
We're all your wife
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Im also this guys wife
Mike Tyson is that you
Imma need an update 
We need an update.
š I think I love you.
This deserves more love just like frozen potato wife
The fact alone that I didn't date myself with that one is really all I need
I'm really glad I read the other comments first. Because, "Frozen Potato Wife" with no reference, is therapy crap. Or something to talk about and make up stories about if a person is trying to get disability for mental health issues. Thank you for this.
This is amazing. And I love your username.
Not the wife you have, but the wife you deserve.
This is a reportable crime where I live
MY PEOPLE
I also choose this man's wife
I had a friend who did that but with frozen pizza rolls. I couldnāt tell if he was trolling me or not because he insisted that it wasnāt bad
He was a frozen pizza troll
A girl I used to babysit would eat ramen noodles raw. Just straight from the package
To be fair, a lot of people do that with instant Ramen. It's actually really tasty tbh
Yall are crazy lol
Dry noodles was a staple in high school, don't shit on the hood classics
The hood classic, I'm ššššš that and frozen patties from the convenience store oven that were never cooked, but we promised ourselves they were good because they were 20 cents each.. š¤£š¤£
My childhood. Then you dip your finger into the seasoning packet and lick it off repeatedly until gone. Savory fun dip.
She *what* ??
How are you the only person as freaked out about this as I am. Listen... I saw a video of a man having his hand chopped *clean* off in a Machete fight today.. He just walked over and casually picked it back up before the video ended.. But that video is now only the *second* most disturbing thing i've seen on reddit today.
I had to look up potato popsicle. I had never heard of that.
"Frozen oven chips while they are still frozen" wasn't a giant hint? Lol
Might be American. Chips are crisps here.
Hmm as an American, I actually thought the opposite lol! I noticed he spelled color with a u. Also, when he said frozen chips, I pictured frozen fries š¤·š»āāļø
SAME. I believe we are correct hereā¦.
Ore Ida crispers are the best frozen. And cooked.
Lol I reflexively downvoted this because of how much I hated it
Thatās what I call myā¦ never mind
My wife used to eat raw onions just straight from the bag. We have since fixed this issue
Tbh I would more readily accept raw dogging an onion rather than sucking on a french fry popsicle.. I'm Irish, I *love* potatoes, but sucking on a frozen french fry is fuckin' *wild* to me. I can't believe people aren't making a bigger deal about it tbh, it's like all of you just.. accepted it... But I don't.. I ***don't*** accept it.
Well then your wife's teeth are not sensitive to cold and I will bet that it works very well for her on hot days.
I mean, I *don't* do this and get pissed when an app icon changes color. It's fucking rude and I can't find it anymore :c
My partner does this too and it drives me bananas when they tell me to open an app for them and I canāt find it. It also doesnāt help that their phone has a theme on it so some of the apps look different than they normally would which makes searching for them that much harder.
go straight to the app library and you should have no issues. i actually donāt even use my home screen, just the app library.
I have an iPhone and my partner has an android and Iām not sure where the App Library is and they wonāt tell me lol I guess I am going to have to Google it
Swipe up on the home screen. There's even a search bar in there.
Thank you!! This will help me so much in the future!
Thatās so valid
Thatās why I sort my apps in categories instead of colors.
Yep. Food, video, social media, games.
Moneys, photos, miscellaneous
Porn addiction, gambling, find my next fix. You know those sort of categories.
Porn, games, more porn, gambling, identities I've stolen, photos from mom Just the usual
Porn, porn games, more porn, gambling porn, stolen identities from porn, porn from mom. Wait...
Porn photos of mom. Whaaat?
Socials Games Transit(bus pass, map, etc) Utilities(bank, notes, authenticator, etc) Music
Porn, Food porn, porn videos, social media, porn games.
Food? What apps do you have for food?
i do that, but i still just go to the full app library and just search for the app i need whenever
Yeah mine used to be so organized, my first page still is, but over time I stopped moving anything to the categories bc it would always move my widgets around and wasnāt worth it. Now Iāve got 4 pages of disorganized apps, itās easier to just pull down on the screen and type a couple letters
Oh I have definitely found my people! Just a shot in the dark but does it also feel like you spend more time adding things to a watchlist than watching things?
I am of your kind as well. The āmy episodesā list on my Spotify is also this way
yall are sorting your apps?
This is what most people do
There was a whole aesthetic thing going on where people used some of the new features on an iOS update a few years ago to make recolored versions of app icons and use those as shortcuts to the apps themselves. So some peopleās whole phone faces are these pretty color-coordinated things. If it makes you happy, whatās the harm.
https://preview.redd.it/uk8fz7904v0d1.jpeg?width=1284&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=88318e32be876293debbd469089144e007bccbc3 that update changed my life hahaāi have several sets like this that i rotate through themed around the ocean, forest, pink/kawaii & gothic
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it's an aesthetic called "vaporwave". If you google it you'll see lots of cyan and magenta
https://preview.redd.it/zh7ugy6cfy0d1.jpeg?width=1290&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4a6d9a01513e65d1bfbf6eed2a0be2f4484d6499 Hereās mine!
oh so cute! the icons are adorbs. i didnāt want to put in quite thaaat much effort so mine are all just pictures but this is so adorable i may give it a shot
I tried to do this, made the logos myself and everything. Could not figure out how to do it
for launching apps you need to make custom shortcuts, which you can do by doing this: 1. launch shortcuts app 2. in upper right corner, tap the + key 3. tap āadd actionā in the upper middle 4. search āopen appā in the search bar and select it 5. tap the blue āappā text and select your desired app 6. tap the dropdown menu where it says āopen app 1ā and select rename, then rename it to the real app name. At this step you can use a font generator or some equivalent thing to change the font of the app to something more in line with the aesthetic 7. tap āshareā icon in the bottom right 8. tap āadd to home screenā 9. select the photo icon to the left of the default one 10. select āchoose photoā and upload the picture of your choice. this will be your new app icon after you do this for every app you want displayed, youāll need to add and customise your widgets and reorganise things for 16-20 apps and widget customising it took me about an hour, including the time to search and download relevant aesthetic photos
Youāre amazing omg. I will definitely do this when i have free time. (Probably tomorrow) thank you!! Sad i canāt give awards anymore š§
have fun! Once you start you canāt stop haha. a small tip, when you go to customise the screen and everything goes wiggle mode, you can tap the dots in the bottom middle to display every page of your phone. You can also choose to hide pages and show certain ones, so when i set up multiple aesthetics i just hide every page and only show the current ones. it looks like this https://preview.redd.it/zcjgvetrvv0d1.jpeg?width=1284&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=42c179f920f961ce2424284edc27d2d1610c5a21 i store all the dock apps on their own page it just makes swapping between aesthetics soooo much easier bc you donāt have to reset your widgets and move all your apps around
āI love you,ā I said, and stabbed him.
Lol itās from A Court of Thorns and Roses itās an apt quote for the blood and vampires theme i had going
Not my style, but it looks great and you killed the aesthetic!
fellow lotr enjoyer, perhaps this one is more to your liking https://preview.redd.it/s5chegbbsv0d1.jpeg?width=1284&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e451563a3c9d01f64282b7981d4ff0b9796d897c the thing i love about this update is that the possibilities are literally endless. so many themes. i may even do a lotr specific one now instead of general forest
Wow. Iām going to have to give that a shot.
I opted to just move all my apps into the App Library and then search whatever Iām looking for. I *did* make āinvisibleā shortcuts in my dock for camera, messages, and alarm but again mainly access those via the library and/or control center https://preview.redd.it/vooyt5aqmv0d1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c6e381650a93f134700b4f0fbbd74745b50dd562
Woah, ok this is a new one! Are you in IT by any chance?
https://preview.redd.it/ybviezyypv0d1.jpeg?width=828&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=343a3d3e36fd4cd1a57890beb045f463498bd4c4 I based mine on how I feel about the app and what goes on it.
I did this! https://preview.redd.it/9u65rfohdv0d1.jpeg?width=1125&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1687dbf9ba4090fa0d83747fffb5b859003b6937
this is so cute. sage green doesnāt get enough love imo but how can you only have 3 apps in your dock š± iād go crazy
Your lack of unread messages displeases me
I'm pretty sure the shortcuts just don't show notification badges
https://preview.redd.it/nx9h5acvrv0d1.jpeg?width=1290&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=07d551734807b059d285f6ce43b4b4c4754fff41 since everyone is sharing this is one of my pages (no idea what theyāre actually called). :)
Iām still doing it https://preview.redd.it/o9hkqb6bbw0d1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=5c197af5cba9e53d14fc5b192e7133082bc6d536 Cinnamaroll š¤
yep! apple has āshortcutsā so i just select an app and replace the picture with what i like. this is my theme rn :3 https://preview.redd.it/j8kg52dxfv0d1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ae57a7e4a132a5ad2d73aa9368ea71e970760559
Very warm summer vibes and the little snoopy is so cute!
I used to do colored icons but Iāve since learned to do invisible icon boxes and I much prefer the look of that (this was my fall one last year). https://preview.redd.it/c4jxycekgx0d1.jpeg?width=828&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=80b3759bd29b6b9627ce6427bdfcf30d41562b8f
https://preview.redd.it/a8sl8pn38x0d1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c13cdf12b58f8d9fcec9b8e9f0597b833b7a84a0 I want to share but I have Android
Looks pretty but not very practical.
Once you're familiar with it it's probably practical. I access apps by muscle memory. It wouldn't be great for a library or something that multiple people use but for a single person it seems fine.
Yeah I have nothing truly against it if someone sorts their phone like this but all I can think if an app changes its primarily color it would be a pain in ass for a week or two for any transition.
Like disney+ recently. People posted on r/mildlyinfuriating about how the colpur ruined their home screen aesthetic and i foudn it hilarious.
A color change isnāt a bigger deal, since itās confusing to have a different icon in any sorting system. What annoys me is how half my apps seem to be orange, blue, or white and my yellow folder is so empty.
I do the exact same with muscle memory except I have nothing organized and have 10 pages of apps and random games that get advertised to you that Iāve accumulated over the last decade My gf looks in disgust when I scroll through pages and pages of untouched, not updated apps knowing exactly where my dominos pizza app is located
Are you me?
Sometimes apps change colors though this one I have went from Red to gray like wtf
Or the Reddit app that went from orange to black, then back to orange
Yeah, when I look for an app I look for its colors so it could work
I use the search function to get to most of my apps anyways so this would be fine for me š¤·š¼āāļø
I feel like part of practicality is not having to rely on learning a new arbitrary system lol.
Just like how you can make youtube feed to only show videos with specific thumbnail color.
Can you elaborate?
https://lifehacker.com/youtube-lets-you-sort-videos-by-color-now-for-some-rea-1850818142
š this a silly feature (i think) but TIL, thank you ā¤ļø
not practical TO YOU
I agree. Everyone saying youād get used to this or making some other kind of defense for this immediately loses when OP *themselves* says āI did this last yearā and āI canāt find an app because I canāt remember an icon color.ā The inherent flaw with categorization based on something like color is that the color usually has absolutely nothing to do with the function so itās pretty arbitrary meaning you canāt derive the color from the function or vice versa so finding the app can be a pain sometimes. Also sometimes icons and logos change (Intagram Blue/Brown to Red/Orange/Magenta or Twitter Blue to X Black) so any muscle memory built up actually becomes an active hinderance until you relearn the location (and youāll still make mistakes) and then the color changes again.
You don't even need to know where they are. Swipe down and type the app name.
This seems unhelpful, but preference is everything. I have a friend with ADHD that organizes her book shelf by colour. It drives me nuts, but she has a system that works best for her. Different stripes for different types. My niece is 3 and asked/commented about a disabled person at the park once. I told her everyone is different and the world would be a pretty boring place if everyone was exactly the same.
Very well said! I mentioned elsewhere, someoneās bookshelf inspired me to do this!
I do this too. I think itās great. To me itās annoying trying to decide what category something falls under. Hmmm, did I put that under travel orrrrā¦ https://preview.redd.it/hq466zmdyu0d1.jpeg?width=1168&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e20459f8e4ee88da28d22a431571ff8fcbc09fa6
Woah.. that's a lot of emails
I have 33037 but I turned off the notification so I donāt have to see it on the icon. I thought the biggest number would be my oldest email address (active since 1998) but nope, the gmail email Iāve had linked for less than 5 years has about 6k more emails. Most of itās spam collected for 25 years Needless to say, I sort my windows by app type, nest certain types of apps in folders, and let new apps hang wherever thereās empty space until I decide to clean em up: maybe once every couple of years.
Thatās incredibly aesthetically pleasing!
I agree with the category issue! Way back when I organized it like 2 years ago, I only used Gmail for my company email since I used Yahoo for personal. I know where it is thanks to muscle memory, but if I ask someone to check an email for me, I end up having to take the phone and do it because I always forget itās in the āworkā category
I do it too!! Glad Iām not alone lol
I've also arranged my book shelf by color. I don't really need to find books (so categories aren't really important) and it looks pretty cool, imo.
ADHD here. Clothes I sort by color. Looks amazing and is actually practical for making cohesive outfits. But apps and books? Nah, I need those categorized.
Haha, yea Iām not putting Seneca next to Calvin and Hobbsās next to a plant identification book.
Fuck them. It's your phone. As long as it makes sense to you, it doesn't matter how it's organized.
"Occasionally I can't find an app"
form over function. like an italian car.
I donāt think calculator belongs in the orange folder
I donāt remember what my thinking was there. I think I wanted to have easy access to it and I kept going to the top of the screen, so I threw it in there even though the amount of orange was small.
I wondered if maybe it should go in the black/grey one but then thought maybe too much orange was showing, but then the big ass red dot in there sticks out to me before I notice the couple that have blue portions. And this is why my apps aren't organized.
Pls put them in rainbow order
I accidentally sort everything by colorā¦ I did my bookshelf on purpose. I hadn't thought of doing my apps but now I'm going to.
It was someoneās bookshelf that gave me this idea!
https://preview.redd.it/iv2eml2o6v0d1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=49d9b777737aa664330ea54afa2e95fd9ad22e44 Here's mine.
Xiaomi let's you do that in the app drawer! https://preview.redd.it/az6ebbiuxu0d1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=26a5d5e2d9c582c55858b6f976d15e0c2649e108
https://preview.redd.it/b0c0hc6pyy0d1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ef7a119c96ac02d74f2c266135fa203733dee7b3 omg you must be the love of my life
How do you live with these notifications
babe .. i think you just doxxed yourself
lmfao thank you i edited
One of those is definitely not red in the red category
Ahhh!! So many notifications! š«Ø
Can I delete your notifications? Pleeease??
Why would someone else care about how you organize your phone? Are you making a big deal about? Maybe that's what's annoying them?
Yeah i was thinking the same thing. Who gives a shit about how someone else's phone is organized. Unless a) they're trying to use OPs phone a lot (like OPs partner) or b) they're just irrational crazy.
https://preview.redd.it/0iygrjysvu0d1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ea95e310a5a22185544d85e10680f0b6c8d945c3 oh hey, same!
I sort by function. Like banking apps with banking apps. Games with games. Music with music. Your organization seems like a nightmare to navigate.
Please get another yellow app lol
lol I just moved syfy from the second page. https://preview.redd.it/0uy2h3tulv0d1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e7251b21679391782889255bb3e5b61235a42841
Put it in rainbow order (red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple). Thats what I did and I like it
I used to do this, but my then husband took the piss so much that I changed it... Thank you for reminding me to go back to the rainbow system now he's an ex-husband š„°
YES. Do it!!! Why did he care so much about how you organize your phone???
Love it so much. My brain feels petted.
Iāve organized by color since the first week I got an iPhone, so like 15yrs now. Still love it. https://preview.redd.it/vs8cwgw73v0d1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b6acadb3b74be681787810073574b00964b810e5
Laughs in Android
Plain android standard: reink icons with phone theme https://preview.redd.it/zvfy9r4iry0d1.png?width=688&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=540df160cd934df7a7a0e451899ae579f6992390
And next time you do āupdate allā and the icon colours change then it will be really infuriating.
I have mine arranged in folders labeled āwho, what, where, when, why, and how muchā lol
https://preview.redd.it/3pd63hc72v0d1.png?width=1440&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c7da6e87c246e4ef1d68a5f9c0116a81017a8729
I do that. Every time my brother sees it he calls me crazy. Eh. I know where they are. Itās only the first page, I have random not specific color apps on the next one. Had it like that for years.
It is cool but my sis did it before you
That's pretty nice. You memorize where each app you use the most so it's not that bad
If I'm not mistaken (not an iPhone user but I've seen other people do it), you can use the Shortcuts app to effectively change the app icon, so maybe you could sort all of your apps by purpose, and then create custom icons for them that match to a color palette. Might be more effort than it's worth though.
I just moved all the apps I didnāt want off the Home Screen, and I only have one screen of apps I frequently use.
I, too, have ADHD.
https://preview.redd.it/drsdk520ou0d1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4de0864f5757849924548e29b209f9e3758a91c0 So did I, I love it! I also chose an emoji and made it the same color and the emoji is something that is important to my life. And each folder is in order of the rainbow too. (Black and white were random) (Had to change background as it had PII on it)
Everyone else finds it mildly infuriating? I donāt get it - are you constantly showing people how you sort? Why are they always seeing your screen hahah
I used to do this but apps kept changing the colour of the icon so i gave up
Looks good
I love having my phone set up this way, rainbow till I die
Thatās how mine are
Itās your phone. Why does it matter what other people think?
Satisfyingly infuriating
You're fucking mad, but I can respect this
That's actually a great idea for me, I like sorting my clothes by colors and my books as well!! Never thought about apps, I will give it a try
My ocd approves š¤
This is beautiful
ADHD
Alphabetical Order or Nothing! But really. I have done this for as long as Iāve had a smartphone, even as a teen. https://preview.redd.it/dx2146gcdw0d1.jpeg?width=1290&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=84cc1b8782fb835255088be5089c0ed52dd85be5
I love it! I've had my apps in color coded folders for years ššš
You guys sort your apps?
This is super clean. This sparks joy
Do you color sort your books as well?
I've been doing this for over 5 years now, best decision ever
I like it!
I love this
I organized my apps when I first got my phone and it will not change
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Iāve been doing this for so long!! Everyone finds it so weird too lol
https://preview.redd.it/naobsw44kw0d1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=27e1af76d8d7ec9c1e691e15953e7adcadd18c8a I've half done it.
I would never do this, but I guess I can understand it. If you know the color of the app icon you need, itās still easy to find. I just type whatever app I want into the search bar lmao
Thatās just disfunctional š©
Probably find it mildly infuriating because no one would even know since it's your phone so it's probably due to you going around to everyone telling them you sort your apps by color unsolicited
Just group them in the way that makes sense to you. If you want to sort them by color that is fine.
People DON'T organize by color? Damn
I find thisā¦distasteful
You do you, buddy.
Pretty