How to Organize Apps on iPhone Automatically Alphabetically

Do you ever have trouble finding the apps that you’ve downloaded to your iPhone?

The search feature on the device can be a useful way to find these apps, but you might prefer to simply tap an icon on the Home screen.

Our tutorial below will show you how to organize apps on iPhone automatically alphabetically and make them easier to locate.

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How to Reset Your iPhone Home Screen to Reorganize Apps

  1. Open Settings.
  2. Choose General.
  3. Tap Transfer or Reset iPhone.
  4. Touch Reset.
  5. Select Reset Home Screen Layout.
  6. Choose Reset Home Screen.

Our article continues below with more information on organizing iPhone apps alphabetically, including pictures of these steps.

Related Article: There’s a setting on your iPhone that you can change to stop the device from adding apps ot the Home screen. You can read this how to add app to home screen iPhone 13 tutorial for more information.

Even if you aren’t very aggressive when it comes to downloading and trying out new apps on your iPhone, it’s pretty easy to have dozens of apps on the device.

There are so many useful banking, organization, entertainment, and gaming apps, many of which are free, that there is little reason not to try as many as you want.

But if you don’t often delete apps from your iPhone unless you need the space, then finding the apps that you actually use can be difficult.

You may already know how to rearrange the apps on the device, but that can be tedious, so you could be looking for a way to do it more efficiently.

Our guide below will show you a simple organization tool in iOS that you can use to sort your iPhone apps automatically by name.

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How to Reset the iPhone 13 Home Screen (Guide with Pictures)

The steps in this article were performed on an iPhone 13 in IOS 15.0.2. You can also sort your iPhone apps automatically on most other iPhone models and most other iOS versions, although the steps to do so are slightly different.

Step 1: Open the Settings app.

open Settings

Step 2: Select the General option.

choose General

Step 3: Scroll to the bottom of the menu and select the Transfer or Reset iPhone option.

In earlier versions of iOS this option simply says “Reset.”

select Transfer or Reset iPhone

Step 4: Choose the Reset option at the bottom of the screen.

choose Reset

Step 5: Select the Reset Home Screen Layout option.

how to organize apps on iPhone automatically alphabetically

Step 6: Tap Reset Home Screen to confirm that you wish to automatically sort your apps.

how to reset iPhone Home screen

Our tutorial continues below with more information on organizing apps on an iPhone.

More Information on How to Organize Apps on iPhone Automatically Alphabetically

Completing the steps above is going to organize your iPhone apps so that all of the default apps appear first, in the order that they would appear on a factory default iPhone. The other iPhone apps that you have downloaded from the App Store will be listed after these default apps, organized into alphabetical order.

You can manually rearrange your iPhone apps by tapping and holding on an icon, then choosing the Edit Home Screen option. You can then drag and drop app icons until you have placed them in the desired order.

One other useful way to sort or categorize iPhone apps is to place them in folders. You can do this by tapping and holding on an app, choosing Edit Home Screen, then dragging an app on top of another app. This automatically creates a folder with those two apps inside of it. You can add more apps to this folder but dragging them on top of the folder. You can then rename a folder by tapping on the folder to open it, then tapping and holding on the folder name at the top of the screen. You can then delete the current folder name and type a new one.

When you open the Reset menu on your iPhone the following options are available:

  • Reset All Settings
  • Reset Network Settings
  • Reset Keyboard Dictionary
  • Reset Home Screen Layout
  • Reset Location & Privacy

These options are in addition to the tool that lets you prepare for a new iPhone, even if you don’t have enough room in iCloud for a full backup. You can also choose to Erase All Content and Settings as a way to restore the iPhone to the state that it would be in as a new device.

Many of these reset options are helpful when you are troubleshooting issues with your iPhone, so it’s useful to know where and what these reset options are.

Frequently Asked Questions About How to Alphabetize Apps on iPhone

If I want to alphabetize iPhone apps, what do I do?

You can use the Reset Home Screen Layout option, which involves going to Settings > General > Transfer or Reset iPhone > Reset > Reset Home Screen Layout > Reset Home Screen.

This will organize iPhone apps with the iPhone’s built in apps appearing first, then it will alphabetize apps after that which you have downloaded and installed from the App Store.

What is the App Library?

If you swipe left on your Home screen a bunch of times, you will eventually get to the App Library.

This is a location that will organize iPhone apps into categories so that you don’t need to do it yourself.

Whether you intend to use it, this location will always be there. But, if you are looking for organize my app iPhone steps, then you might want to see how this looks before you spend a lot of time trying to figure out how to alphabetize apps in iPhone folders manually, or start removing them from the Home screen.

How can I install my app updates automatically?

You can go to the App Store settings menu by opening the Settings app, then scrolling down and choosing the App Store option.

You can then find the Automatic Downloads section, where you will see an App Updates option.

You can enable that setting to let your iPhone install the updates for your apps as they become available.