
My new iPhone home screen layout
Moved iTunes to the second page, along with a webclip for my web page. My own page was relegated to page 2 because I won't tend to access it often from the phone. The only reason I even put it on at all was to show off how easy it is to make a custom webclip icon. (PS - after I shot this, I realized I decided at the last minute to swap Safari and Mail, but I wanted JiveTalk and SMS to be above Mail, so I have swapped places with Text/iPod, and JiveTalk/Facebook.)

Updated iPhone home screen
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iPhone Home Screens, July 15, 2008
My iPhone icon arrangement as of today. See the notes for a few explanations.

iPhone Home Screens, August 2, 2008
My iPhone icon arrangement as of today. Several apps are just silly, intended to garner some giggles out of my cousin's kids. They'll probably deleted in a couple weeks after I see them. For further explanation of my layout, see my July 15 screenshots at www.flickr.com/photos/leebennett/2673444944/

iPhone Home Screens, August 11, 2008
My iPhone icon arrangement as of today.
The first screen retains all original iPhone apps except a few I practically never use which are on the sixth screen. The first screen also has just a couple 3rd-party apps I use very often.
The second screen holds all my frequently used 3rd-party apps.
The third screen is sort of an in-limbo screen—in other words, apps I'm possibly not going to keep.
Screen four is used for webclip URLs.
Screen five is stupid/silly/fun apps, many of which used for the sole purpose of amusing children.
Screen six, as mentioned, holds original iPhone apps I barely use. That's right, I have little use for the iTunes music store via the phone, and I generally (though not always) update apps via iTunes and not the phone.
Oh, and for the record, I have not (yet) acquired any app that wasn't free.
UPDATE: Duh, I just realized I accidentally Photoshopped screens 4 and 5 backward. The webclip screen should be 5th.

iPhone Home Screens, September 12, 2008
My iPhone icon arrangement as of today.
The first screen retains all original iPhone apps except a few I practically never use which are on the last screen. The first screen also has just a couple 3rd-party apps I use very often and one single webclip URL for iTweet which has returned to my frequent use now that pagination has been restored to the Twitter API.
The second and third screens hold all my frequently used 3rd-party apps.
The fourth screen is a probation screen—in other words, apps I'm deciding whether or not to keep (or, in the case of the three movie-tracking apps, which one(s) I want to keep).
Screen five is stupid/silly/fun apps, many of which used for the sole purpose of amusing children.
Screen six is used for webclip URLs that I access frequently.
Screen seven, as mentioned, holds original iPhone apps I barely use. That's right, I have little use for the iTunes music store via the phone, and I generally (though not always) update apps via iTunes and not the phone.
Yes, I have now joined the ranks of those who have acquired some iPhone apps and paid money for them.

iPhone Home Screens, October 1, 2008
My iPhone icon arrangement as of today.
Screen 1: all original iPhone apps except a few seldom-used apps on the last screen. Also here are just a couple 3rd-party apps I use very often.
Screens 2-3: all other frequently used 3rd-party apps.
Screen 4: probation screen—apps I'm not sure I'm going to keep long-term (or, in the case of the three movie-tracking apps, which one(s) I want to keep).
Screen 5: stupid/silly/fun apps, many of which used for the sole purpose of amusing children.
Screens 6-7: webclip URLs that I access frequently.
Screen 8: original iPhone apps I barely use. That's right, I have little use for the iTunes music store via the phone, and I generally (though not always) update apps via iTunes and not the phone.

iPhone Home Screens, December 11, 2008
My iPhone icon arrangement as of today has added a ninth screen.
Screen 1: All original iPhone apps except a few seldom-used apps on the last screen. Also here are just a couple 3rd-party apps I use very often.
Screens 2-3: All other regularly used 3rd-party apps except games.
Screen 4: Game apps.
Screen 5: Probation screen—apps I'm not sure I'm going to keep long-term (or, in the case of the three movie-tracking apps, which one(s) I want to keep). Yes, I realize this screen has been in probation for a long time and that I should decide on them soon.
Screen 6: Stupid/silly/fun apps, many of which used for the sole purpose of amusing children.
Screens 7-8: Webclip URLs that I access frequently.
Screen 8: Original iPhone apps I barely use. That's right, I have little use for the iTunes music store via the phone, and I generally (though not always) update apps via iTunes and not the phone. I also keep Fake-a-Call back here in an attempt to fend off incrimination should I ever feel the need to use the app.

iPhone Home Screens, January 25, 2009
My iPhone icon arrangement as of today has reverted back to eight screens after some consolidation and app removal.
Screen 1: Primarily-used apps, grouped by row. Top is photo and video media, second row is various forms of messaging, remaining rows are everything else, arranged in a way that probably only makes sense to me. Possibly significant to note that Twitterrific has graduated to the dock. I use it *that* much.
Screens 2-4: The former "probation" screen of apps I wasn't sure I'd keep has been eliminated. Two or three of those probation apps were retained and merged into these three screens which contain all primary 3rd party apps I use, alphabetized. Since all these apps wouldn't fit on two screens anyway, instead of filling up the first two and letting the third contain only the last three icons, I left space at the bottom of all three to leave room for future rearrangement.
Screen 5: Game apps.
Screen 6: Stupid/silly/fun apps, many of which used for the sole purpose of amusing children.
Screen 7: Webclip URLs that I access frequently. These previously filled two screens, but I have since consolidated by removing several I recognized I wasn't using often—or at all.
Screen 8: Original iPhone apps I barely use. That's right, I have little use for the iTunes music store via the phone, and I generally (though not always) update apps via iTunes and not the phone. I also keep Fake-a-Call back here in an attempt to fend off incrimination should I ever feel the need to use the app.

iPhone Home Screens, May 8, 2009
Time for a new screen arrangement image. Twittelator Pro occupied the dock row for a while, but I knew it wouldn't be for long. It would revert back to Twitterrific Pro when version 2.0 was released—which happened today.
Screen 1: Primarily-used apps, grouped by row. Top is photo and video media, second row is various forms of messaging, remaining rows are everything else, arranged in a way that probably only makes sense to me. Whereas Twitterrific previously replaced SMS in the dock since it's used more, the Facebook app has replaced Mail in the dock. These two truly are my most commonly used apps.
Screens 2-4: General screens for 3rd party apps I don't keep on my 1st home screen, alphabetized. I leave space at the bottom of all three to leave room for future rearrangement. (I didn't feel like re-doing the grouped screen shot, but only a moment ago, I removed Darkslide from screen 2 because I realized I don't use it any more. Mobile Fotos (on screen 1) does everything I need with Flickr, and does it more elegantly, in my opinion.)
Screen 5: Game apps.
Screen 6: Stupid/silly/fun apps, many of which used for the sole purpose of amusing children.
Screen 7: Webclip URLs that I access frequently.
Screen 8: Original iPhone apps I barely use. That's right, I have little use for the iTunes music store via the phone, and I generally (though not always) update apps via iTunes and not the phone. I also keep Fake-a-Call back here in an attempt to fend off incrimination should I ever feel the need to use the app.

iPhone Home Screens, October 19, 2009
Time for a new screen arrangement image. As I stated last time, Twitterrific made its return to the Dock when version 2.0 was released.
Screen 1: Primarily-used apps, grouped by row. Top is photo and video media, second row is various forms of messaging, remaining rows are everything else, arranged in a way that probably only makes sense to me.
Screens 2-5: General screens for 3rd party apps I don't keep on my 1st home screen, alphabetized. I leave space at the bottom of all four to leave room for future rearrangement.
Screen 6: Game apps.
Screen 7-8: Stupid/silly/fun apps, many of which used for the sole purpose of amusing children.
Screen 9: Webclip URLs that I access frequently.
Screen 10: Original iPhone apps I barely use. That's right, I have little use for the iTunes music store via the phone, and I generally (though not always) update apps via iTunes and not the phone. I also keep Fake-a-Call back here in an attempt to fend off incrimination should I ever feel the need to use the app.

iPhone Home Screens, March 1, 2010
Time for an updated screen arrangement image.
Screen 1: Primarily-used apps, grouped by row. Top is photo and video media, second row is various forms of messaging, remaining rows are everything else, arranged in a way that probably only makes sense to me.
Screens 2-5: General screens for 3rd party apps I don't keep on my 1st home screen, alphabetized. I leave space at the bottom of all four to leave room for future rearrangement. Of note is the Flickit Pro app in screen 3 which I recently reviewed for www.ATPM.com. I had thoughts that it may replace Mobile Fotos (screen 1) for access to this Flickr account. Alas, it just doesn't measure up. Keen eyes may also spot two copies of the WordPress app on screen 5. I'm not sure why, but a recent update came in the form of a whole new app. I've kept the old one in place for now and am not sure if I may need it or not.
Screen 6: Game apps.
Screen 7-8: Stupid/silly/fun apps, many of which used for the sole purpose of amusing children.
Screen 9: Webclip URLs that I access frequently.
Screen 10: Original iPhone apps I barely use. That's right, I have little use for the iTunes music store via the phone, and I generally (though not always) update apps via iTunes and not the phone. I also keep Fake-a-Call back here in an attempt to fend off incrimination should I ever feel the need to use the app. Apple's Camera app is also back here since I always shoot either directly within the Mobile Fotos app or from Darkroom which has more shooting features to offer.

iPhone Home Screens, June 22, 2010
Trying an experiment. After updating to iOS4, except for the most basic and frequently used original iPhone apps, I've moved *all* remaining apps into groups for organization.
Ultimately, there's a good chance I'll pull a few other frequently used apps out to put on the first screen, and move groups such as Bookmarks and Utilities—which are both full of infrequently used items—to the second page.
For now, however, I've not perceived any grief with tapping a group first and then getting to an app, especially when, overall, I've eliminated a bunch of screen swiping. Guess I'll find out how long this lasts.

iPhone Home Screens, June 23, 2010
Yep, I did it. Tweaked the position of several apps within group folders and moved Twitter and Facebook apps out to the home page.

iPhone Home Screens, July 13, 2010
Even though this is nearly identical to the previous iPhone home screen image, I wanted to upload this version since it came from the iPhone 4 as opposed to the 3G. Thus, it features the quadruple resolution and my current background wallpaper. (I've cycled through about a half dozen different wallpapers since getting the iPhone 4 and am still not sure I'm settled, or if I won't swap it out often, regardless.) I'm resisting the urge to set up a screenshot with frames showing the contents of each group folder.

iPhone Home Screens, September 24, 2010
A few small additions and re-arrangements to the previous layout. The big change this particular time is the background wallpaper which serves as a teaser for three that will be offered as part of the October issue of www.ATPM.com.

iPad Home Screen, November 22, 2010
Hooray for iOS 4.2 finally bringing folder arrangements to the iPad.

iPhone Home Screens, November 23, 2010
A new background wallpaper and a bit of reordering brought about by the steps to set up folders on my iPad.

iPhone Home Screens, January 4, 2011
A revised layout, instigated by an LCARS background that Chris Turner pointed me to.

iPhone Home Screens, April 21, 2011
I'm still loving the LCARS background. Although I sort of ignore the left side space on screen 2, it sort of gives me a second dock region on screen 1. That left side and the dock are my most commonly used apps, although I'm strongly debating bringing the Camera app out to replace either Maps or Calendar. I miss the home button double-click to access the camera, but I sure wouldn't want to lose access to the task manager.
Why is the Mobile Safari icon white? Because it's not Mobile Safari. I moved the app into the Apple folder. What you see here is a home screen bookmark that loads about:blank. Although I keep a few pages active in Mobile Safari, 98% of the time go to the web browser, I want to load something new, so this saves me from having to hit the icon to browse open pages followed by the button for a new page.

iPhone Home Screens, August 13, 2011
Whew, this was some work in Photoshop to build. Rest assured I won't do this very often. But I had a mind to have a visual index of all my apps since you can't see them in the groups in previous screenshots.
The top three panels are my lock screen and two icon screens. Everything below those three show what is in each of my app groups.
Still love my LCARS background. If you like it, you can get it here: www.flickr.com/photos/krislegg/sets/72157624458730138/
Although I sort of ignore the left side space on screen 2, it sort of gives me a second dock region on screen 1. That left side and the dock are my most commonly used apps. I had been thinking of swapping out the Camera app to replace either Maps or Calendar for faster access, but iOS 5 will be out soon enough with quick access to the camera from the lock screen.
Why is the Mobile Safari icon white? Because it's not Mobile Safari. I moved the app into the Apple folder. What you see here is a home screen bookmark that loads about:blank. Although I keep a few pages active in Mobile Safari, 98% of the time go to the web browser, I want to load something new, so this saves me from having to hit the icon to browse open pages followed by the button for a new page.

iPad Home Screens, October 11, 2011
Having been pleased with the result of my Photoshopping screenshots of all my iPhone folder arrangements into a single image, I've wanted to do the same with my iPad. At last, here it is.
At the top are the complete contents of the two pages of icons that live on my iPad. All the apps on the left are either iPad native or Universal. The second page, on the right (except for the static dock, of course) are iPhone apps which run in emulation visibility.
Immediately under the main screens are the contents of the two groups that are in my dock, web browsers on the left and Twitter & Facebook on the right. The specific Twitter app inside this group may change from time to time, but for now, Twitterrific for iPad is my favorite.
The rest of the image is contents of the remaining groups—iPad/Universal apps on the left, iPhone apps on the right.
The background is from the collection Louie Mantia avails for free. Alas, the link to this background at mantia.me/wallpaper/blueprint/ was changed to a nonperspective version and named Blueprint Neue. For reasons I can't guess, he eliminated the angled perspective version, so naturally I've guarded my copy of it.
Whoops. I see that the group that holds Facebook and Twitterrific in the Dock was still named "Social" (same as the group above) when I took that screenshot, but I had changed it to FB/Twitter before taking all the icon groupings screenshot, so they don't match in this image. *sigh* Oh whatever. 🙂

iPhone Home Screens, August 13, 2012
I just realized today is exactly one year since the last time I shared my iPhone home screens. It seems the reason it's been so long is because I haven't really done anything much different since then.
The biggest change was made just today. I Photoshopped the wallpaper to move the side pseudo-dock to the right instead of the left. This is because I generally hold the phone with my left hand and can reach these often-used apps more easily with my thumb.
The original wallpaper is here: www.flickr.com/photos/krislegg/sets/72157624458730138/ - I'm reluctant to post the flipped version because it isn't mine.
Of course, several new apps have been added, but I'm not spending the time to do a breakout of all the icon groups now. I've also spilled a little into a third screen where I have groups of icons I almost never use—including the Newsstand doohickey that Apple doesn't let us delete. See the note overlays for more information.
UPDATE: I had a change of heart. I wasn't completely sold on having the side pseudo-dock on the right. Just moments ago, my new Mophie Juice Pack case arrived. The thickness of it made it difficult for my left thumb to reach the right side of the screen, so I have now reverted back to the original, non-reversed layout.

iPhone Home Screens, February 18, 2013
Time to post an updated image of my iPhone home screens. I'm finally taking cues from the way I believe most people use their iPhones and setting up page 1 to have direct access to my most frequently used apps without burying them in a group folder (with the exception of photo tools I use all the time and don't mind leaving in a group folder). Page 2 also contains frequently used apps—just not as frequent as the ones on page 1. The last three pages are still a work in progress and need a lot more work to organize them better.

iOS Home Screens, September 28, 2013
Been a while since I've updated my archive of mobile device screenshots. I've been using this wallpaper for a while, even before updating to iOS 7. And thanks to iOS 7's ability to have unlimited apps in one folder, I've eliminated a few page screens on both my iPad and iPhone.
Besides upgrading to iOS 7, the most significant change to my devices is the lock screen. I have used my photo of the Lee Rd./Bennett Ave. street signs ever since the original iPhone. But, in iOS 7, the upper part of the photo doesn't provide enough contrast to easily see the time. I had decided this was finally the opportunity to start having fun with varying lock screen images, although my wife thinks it's a shame to not have my tried-and-true namesake street corner as the lock screen image. So one day soon, I may play around with the picture in Photoshop to create a top-darkened (or top-lightened) version that works better with iOS 7.
Yes, I realize my unread mail count is out of control. Most of them are daily notifications that I've saved and left as unread for a reason. I generally don't have more than 20-30 unread e-mails at any given time.

iPhone Home Screens, November 1, 2013
The primary reason for this update is notating the migration from an iPhone 4s to an iPhone 5s. I swapped out the Spaceship Earth rendering on the lock screen for an excellent photo of Cinderella's castle taken by Jeff Krause at Disney's Magic Kingdom. The first page of icons is largely the same as before, other than adding four more commonly used apps in the space afforded by the taller screen.

iPhone Home Screens, August 7, 2014
Long overdue for a home screen update. I forgot to include the lock screen, but it's currently just the same wallpaper as the home screens. The first home screen has been dramatically reworked to make room for three photography apps I use VERY often, bringing them out of the Photo folder for faster access on the home screen.
So, what's changed? First of all, the Apple Reminders app has been banished to the Apple folder on the third screen because Fantastical handles Reminders now. Also, three social media apps have been relocated out of reduced use. I've essentially halted personal use of Google+ and App.net but I still post to those networks for my office, so the G+ app and Netbot are on the second screen. I used to keep Twitterrific on my first screen, and although I wish I could admit I use it more because of it's second-to-none interface, my power user preferences force me to stick with Tweetbot on iOS. (Twitterrific for Mac however, even in it's heavily aged form, remains the best desktop client for me.)
So, that's four apps removed from the first home screen. In their place are the Google app since I have been using it a lot lately, and three photograph apps: Apple's Photos for access to albums, Instaflash (a MUST have, in my opinion), and Flickr since 99.9% of every photo I take gets uploaded there.
As for the layout: I'm currently trying out all the social media apps along the left side of the first home screen (except for Fantastical at the top because I like having the date badge there) and all photography apps on the right side (with the Camera app at the top, reminding me that's the corner where the lens is located on the back side). There probably isn't much thought into the organization of the middle two columns other than it somehow feeling right to put the only other folder of apps (Weather) I keep on my first home screen right next to the folder for Photo, and putting the Google and Google Maps apps next to each other.
The second screen is a straight alphabetical listing of lesser-but-still-somewhat-frequently used apps. The exceptions being Messenger which I may move into correct position, but is currently in the "F" position because I think of it as Facebook Messenger, and the two games I play most commonly, leaving them at the bottom.
The third screen is alphabetized folders organizing all other apps.

iPhone Home Screens, August 6, 2015
So tomorrow would be a whole year since I last updated my album of iPhone home screens. During that year, I really didn't change things all that much—only a few minor adjustments.
But today, I swapped out my background image. It had previously been a modified version of Louie Mantia's red-themed Star Trek pattern (sadly he's since removed it from his collection—not sure why), but I've since found an LCARS-themed background image to blend with the LCARS lock screen wallpaper from Gedeon Maheux. (For those astute enough to notice the home screen background image is different colors than the link above, yes, I did re-paint the shapes to match the colors of Ged's wallpaper.)
The only two things different on the first home screen are a switch back to Twitterrific as my main Twitter app and eliminating the unread counter badge for the Mail app (when you persistently have more than 100 unread items, having a badge counter that says so becomes rather counterproductive). The layout still keeps my common social media apps on the left and photography apps on the right.
I'm not going to screenshot all my folders, but because I keep two folders on my first home screen, I'm showing just the first page of most-common apps for those categories: weather and photography. The remaining pages for those folders are just more apps in those categories I use far less often.
The second home screen layout is still more or less the same other than eliminating the broken Netbot app and adding 1Password and GasBuddy. I really can't describe the rationale for the order of icons on this screen other than just saying, it works for me.
The third home screen remains an alphabetical list of app folders by category. Nothing different than before other than probably some additional apps in some folders and a new MS Office folder for all of Microsoft's recent iOS versions of Office apps.
PS - yes, the Safari icon is still blank white because the actual app is tucked into the Apple folder and the dock icon is actually a bookmark to a script that always opens a blank page in Safari—something I generally prefer rather than going straight to whatever page I had open last.

iPhone Home Screens, October 30, 2015
Time for an updated home screen glimpse now that I've upgraded to an iPhone 6s. I'm not using zoomed mode, so that means one extra row of icons on the first screen and one less row (for now) on the second screen,
Naturally I updated the lock screen with the 6-sized version of the same LCARS image by Gedeon. Unfortunately, the LCARS wallpaper I had on the iPhone 5s seems to lack an updated size for the larger 6s. One day I might get around to Photoshopping it into the correct size. But for now, the wallpaper is an awesome snap of the recent lunar eclipse.
The one other significant change is that the Safari icon has returned to the home screen and the JavaScript link I used to keep in the dock to always open a new tab is gone. Yes, it worked, but I'd always wished to have the icon back instead of the blank white icon and to stop using what amounted to a hack. Thanks to 3D Touch on the iPhone 6s, I can use the pop up to get a new tab now.
Oh yeah, this is also the first time I was able to set up this collage entirely on my iPhone without having to transfer the individual screenshots to my Mac, Photoshopping the collage, and then uploading here. Pixelmator for iOS is a great tool!

iPhone Home Screens, May 5, 2019
Wow! How did I go nearly four years without posting an update to this album? Last time I did so was 2015 and we were still on iOS 9. Now up to iOS 12.
Now using an iPhone X and still using Gedeon Maheux’s most excellent LCARS lock screen wallpaper that he updated for the Home Button-less screens. He actually agreed to share template files with me that I was going to use to attempt a custom wallpaper for the other screens, but I’ve never yet gotten around to it. So for now I’m using a simple nearly-all-black wallpaper—a boon for OLED screens keeping the background pixels off—with a subtle outline and coloring for the dock and another outline at the top to highlight the notch. A rather cool effect.
Screen 1: Other than social media tools on the left and camera/photo tools on the right, the positioning of the remaining icons probably make little sense to anyone but me—apps I use most often and positioned based on muscle memory.
Screen 2: The first two columns are alphabetical order of apps I use a fair bit, but not as much as any on screen 1. Third column all pertains to my home theater system—the last four mirroring the physical top-to-bottom positioning of my TV, Apple TV, cable box, and amp/receiver. Fourth column are all health-related apps.
Screen 3: Alphabetical ordering of category folders holding all other apps, except for a game at the bottom to which I’m hopelessly addicted.