![]() We need a cloud-hosted index of searchable apps.Ī number of companies are working towards this end. Homescreens, app folders and Spotlight Search will not be enough. ![]() And so the apps continue to sync from one device to the next, forgotten. A few years of iPhone upgrades, with hundreds of leftover apps syncing to new devices. Why not delete the unused apps? Why not perform regular app cleanups? Because users are lazy. A few years of downloading and abandoning apps on our backscreens. Worst case scenario: you can't remember which folder you tucked the app in, so you flip to the left side of the homescreen and use Spotlight Search to find the app in question instead.īut let's extrapolate out to a few years into the future. Today, it's easier to flip through your screens to find your apps, especially if you only have 64 of them (or less). But it's there, and somewhere at Apple HQ, it's being improved. It's neither an everyday necessity for the average user or functional enough for a power user's needs. For now, it's tucked away under a couple of screens within the iPhone's App Store. They can be recalled through a simple search. You know…just in case.īut the promise of iCloud, as I see it, is that these apps can disappear from the iPhone's homescreen, but never have to fully disappear from reach. They just sit there on the phone, abandoned, languishing on the back screens. But my real problem is that I'm not inclined to remove apps I don't use. Granted, many of these apps were installed for testing purposes only - they aren't used daily by any means. The average smartphone user has 64 mobile apps installed on their mobile device. But Android is not being addressed in today's article. Note to Android users: This whole post is about Apple's iCloud. And it's available on your iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch right now. Using it, you can search through every app you have installed on your iOS device or have ever purchased in the past. ![]() It's called iCloud - or more technically, it's one aspect of the overall iCloud service. Apple has built a search engine for apps. ![]()
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