Life hack: how to best arrange your iPhone apps, one icon at a time

After years of fiddling, I finally cracked it. This is how you should organise your home screen - and it's advice that could be handy for Android users too

In the 10 years since the iPhone launched, I've never really settled on a way to arrange my home screen that I actually like. Folders seem clunky but no folders leaves me with too many things multiple swipes away. Organising by what I use most leaves me with the rarely but rapidly needed apps buried, while organising by speed of access leaves me tapping through multiple times a day.

And then there's aesthetics. Some apps simply don't deserve to be on my first home screen no matter how much I use them. Mostly games. Game designers can't make an attractive icon for the life of them, it seems.