Who says you can only have X pages of apps on the iPhone (9 if you have pre-3.0 OS; 11 if with 3.x). The video below that I came across on YouTube describes a simple trick to get possibly unlimited pages without jailbreaking your phone. Read my caveat notes below the video.
I tried this and initially had two problems. The first I discovered when I had couple of apps with updates and did an “update all”. My new extra page of apps disappeared after that. However, I noticed that even after I went through the process in the video a couple of times, I couldn’t get things to work. Until I discovered that having my phone connected to my laptop triggered iTunes every time I rebooted the phone. As soon as I unplugged the USB cable and let the phone loose, I didn’t have the problem.
Warning: I now have 16 pages and growing, and am wholly addicted to adding loads of useless free apps while losing out on sleep. You can be too! You’ve been warned. Oh by the way, this may not work on the iPad since there’s no native “Voice Memo” app on it. Of course, when iPhone OS 4.0 comes out, any iPhone device that can upgrade to it (not all can) can take advantage of the new ‘folders’ feature.
Update: If you’re using iTunes 9.1, you could still lose all your added pages. Haven’t tried yet, and not sure how to get around it except to downgrade iTunes. Or simply not connect your phone to your computer for the time being. That means your apps are not backed up and if you have a phone problem, you could end up losing them anyways. For me it’s not a big deal since I need the space to try apps for review on CallStyle.
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