How-To

Can’t Find Your iPhone Apps? Use This Trick to Add Them Back to the Home Screen

By Brian Burgess

Published July 5, 2024

When you clean up your iPhone’s apps, you can remove them from the home screen. But they’re not missing. Here’s how to find your iPhone apps.

When you clean up your iPhone’s home screen, you often remove apps, exercising your control over its layout. However, it may be hidden from the home screen when needed. Luckily, you can find iPhone apps and add them back to the home screen.

However, if you haven’t completely deleted the app, you can still find it via the iPhone’s search feature. If you use them often, you can re-add the app(s) to the home screen for easier access.

So, in this guide, we will show you the steps to find the hidden app and add it back to the home screen.

How do You Hide an App from the Home Screen?

As we mentioned, when you clean up your iPhone’s home screen, you can hide the apps but keep them on your device. Here’s how.

1. Long-press the app you want to hide from the home screen and tap Remove App from the menu that appears.
2. Select the Remove from Home Screen option – not Delete App.
3. You will receive no other notifications, and the app will be hidden. However, it is still installed on your phone.

Find Hidden iPhone Apps and Add them Back to the Home Screen

Finding and re-adding your app(s) on the home screen is straightforward using the following steps.

1. Swipe down from the middle of your screen to reveal the Search field.
2. Start typing in the name of the app you are looking for until it appears under the Top Hit section. For example, we’re searching for the Sports app that was removed.
3. Long-press the app you found and select Add to Home Screen from the menu that appears.
4. The Search field will close, and you will be taken to the home screen section where the app will live.
   

   After searching for our missing Sports app, we were able to find it via search and re-add it to the iPhone’s home screen.

That’s all there is to it. Of course, if you don’t like where the app was added to your home screen, you can move it. You can do that by tapping the app until it starts to wiggle. Then tap and slide it to the location of the home screen where you want. You can also add the same app to multiple home screens, if you want.

Arranging iPhone Apps on the Home Screen

Moving apps to locations on your iPhone’s home screen is essential for easy access. If you hide an app from the home screen, you can retrieve it using the above steps.

Also, if you have several similar apps, you can add them to folders and label the folders with whatever works best for you. Using folders takes an extra tap, but it is well worth it if you want to keep the home screen clean. Have fun organizing!