How To: Organize iPhone Apps With iTunes

Amidst all the hype for iTunes 9, the enticing feature for iPhone owners is the app management. Going by the reality, we can now organize the iPhone apps via iTunes. With this effortless drag and drop app management would bring down some painful attempts made earlier to organize apps.

Getting Started:

Just download iTunes 9 if you have not yet – Download Link
Also make sure you update your iPhone OS to 3.1 version, just to make sure this process is done smoothly.

Application Sync
The list of applications which you have installed in iPhone would now appear in the Sync Applications portion of the page. You now have the ability to search them, sort them according to category, date or by name.

You can also notice that some of the applications are checked and some are unchecked. The checked ones are those which are already available in your iPhone. You can also uncheck applications by which they will be removed from your app list immediately. Make sure you hit the Apply button to see the changes.

Drag and Drop Apps

Another great thing about this app management application is the simplicity in which apps can be dragged and dropped. You can also go about removing the app from the Virtual iPhone by selecting the app and clicking the x button.

You can just drag the app and put them to the right column. You can also make use of the command key to drag multiple apps at the same time allowing you to move them all at a time. Once again make sure you click on the Apply button for the changes to take place. Pretty Cool App Management..Right?

Praveen on Monday, February 22nd, 2010 at 12:07 pm


37 Responses to How To: Organize iPhone Apps With iTunes


  1. ricky
    Mar 22, 2010

    is apple iphone 4g is also supported with the same itune’s store.. hope i explained what i am trying to say :(


  2. ijal
    Mar 23, 2010

    very cool, a great new feature!


  3. kumarseo
    Mar 23, 2010

    nice article thanks for sharing….


  4. mijie
    Mar 23, 2010

    in asia, mostly internet using find a pirate music…that what i see


  5. Hollow
    Mar 23, 2010

    Probably yes, the 4g will be in the same store. Thanks for the tips.


  6. arghya139
    Mar 23, 2010

    wow
    thats a nice thing


  7. Mridul
    Mar 23, 2010

    i like the concept od syncing the Apple products with Itunes , its reduces entering of viruses :P


  8. YDA812006
    Mar 23, 2010

    thanks man,great share


  9. Isaac Tacken
    Mar 23, 2010

    It’s too bad that if you have a jailbroken iPod with Cydia, it will delete Cydia when you synchronize them


  10. ethne_hunt
    Mar 23, 2010

    hey , thanx ! really helpful stuff :)


  11. Blufish
    Mar 23, 2010

    Good tips, for the people who had this though.


  12. bhavin
    Mar 23, 2010

    actually, i dont like to be dependent on itunes for my music


  13. Ankit verma
    Mar 24, 2010

    You can easily do this without iTunes too. All you have to do is to press any icon for about 3 second till all the articles start shaking then you can move, remove any application.


  14. Ankur
    Mar 27, 2010

    I don’t have an iPhone, bah!
    And I don’t like itunes, so it’s no use to me anyways.


  15. kiran
    Mar 27, 2010

    i dont like itunes but cheers for providing useful information


  16. fhassan
    Mar 27, 2010

    @Isaac Tacken ya it’s really bad


  17. Candyland
    Mar 27, 2010

    If you have a large music collection that needs organization, I would try FixTunes.
    I used it on my music collection and it worked great. It’ll get all the metadata for your songs, it works pretty good but not great. There were some albums that it actually made worse, but 98% of them were improved.


  18. colwarrior
    Mar 28, 2010

    Whether i-tunes work in WINDOWS?


  19. Kunal Aggarwal
    Mar 28, 2010

    Good info, but is it important to sync the apple products every time from the starting if we add something new to them ?


  20. hemant
    Mar 28, 2010

    hey, nice pictorial and useful information. drag and drop is really a nice improvement for arranging apps.


  21. imdoggz
    Mar 30, 2010

    actually im dumb with this, dont know how to add games on my friends i touch LOL, thanks


  22. Kieran
    Mar 30, 2010

    Easy enough to do…

    There is even apps out there what let you put apps/games into order of your preference!


  23. sackboy
    Mar 31, 2010

    Organizing helps a lot, I try to keep the more or less same kind of apps together, for example browsers, youtube, facebook and other internet related apps are seperated from games.


  24. king_terror
    Apr 11, 2010

    wow very nice post its very useful to me

    thank u


  25. Jamie Lobo
    Aug 27, 2010

    i am sure that apple iphone4g will support also the same itune’s store
    thanks for guide in step by step !


  26. Steph
    Sep 10, 2010

    Brilliant guide. This is exactly the kind of guide I needed when I was struggling with my iPhone (too many apps, huge mess!). It seems so easy when I read through the guide.


  27. shadyrifles
    Sep 10, 2010

    this one iss good !
    these supports old versions of iphones too !!!


  28. Vinny Luckmann
    Sep 10, 2010

    thanks man i will keep this in mind when i will buy my first iPhone. sounds like there are many cool stuff you can do with iPhone that i can’t do on my smart phone


  29. Parth
    Sep 10, 2010

    I add new tracks everyday in my iphone so it was needed thanks alot for informing me..!!!


  30. Mridul Khurana
    Sep 10, 2010

    I tired it yesterday , it works.. thanks for the tutorial , and as said its gr8 coz it safeguards us from viruses :D


  31. David B
    Sep 10, 2010

    Great tutorial. I love the way this was so organized to teach us how to organize, kind of a super synonym there. Anyways, this is helpful to people who run into this, also a safeguard, real great read!


  32. Mark
    Sep 10, 2010

    I tried it and successful thanks for great tips


  33. Siddg
    Sep 10, 2010

    Very neat feature! Organising apps will become less of a game now ;)

    Can’t wait to check it out.


  34. Ram Charan
    Sep 11, 2010

    I did not know this HONESTLY..Nice post.I always did that shaky thing where your icons wobble and you can change them..This look’s a lot simpler and I can also change them while syncing my songs.!


  35. Sameer S
    Sep 11, 2010

    The features Of The Updated Phone Rockxx I Used It !! And Enjoying It Too Good And Best Information !! Helpfull Info For Me And All !! :) ;) !!


  36. Dwiananta
    Sep 11, 2010

    Nice. It can help me to organize application. It make my iPhone looks great. I cannot organize my iPhone before. I just know that iTunes can help my iPhone to organize. Thanks for sharing


  37. kahara
    Sep 12, 2010

    Thanks Dude your blog is awesome , it is sharing lots of intresting topics, please dont stop posting :)

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