Millions of iPhone owners use the home screen incorrectly – don’t get caught making three big mistakes

YOU probably stare at your iPhone home screen dozens of times a day—so make sure you’re using it right.

There are few useful iPhone hacks that are so helpful.

We’ve picked three of the best to help you manage your home screen better…

iPhone Trick #1 – Hide Home Screens

Want to clean up your home screen? In addition to removing apps, you can now hide pages littered with things you rarely use.

The iPhone has been around since 2007, and over that time the number of apps we’ve downloaded has increased.

Even if you keep them organized in folders, chances are you still have multiple home screens filled with games, social media apps, and more.

Hiding a home page is easy.

First, hold your finger down on the home screen until the app icons start wiggling.

Then tap the pill-shaped bubble at the bottom of the screen – the one that usually shows which home screen you’re on.

This will bring you to a page that allows you to hide individual home screens by “unchecking” the checkboxes below them.

When you’re done, just click Done in the top right.

These pages are not gone forever and are perfectly preserved if you wish to display them.

Of course, you can also leave them hidden if you wish.

The apps on your hidden page are not deleted from your device. They can still be found in your iPhone’s app library, accessed by swiping left to the very last page.

iPhone Trick #2 – Hidden Buttons

Your iPhone home screen is full of hidden buttons—and you may never have seen them.

Apple calls the feature Quick Actions, and you may have found it by accident.

It works by long-pressing an app icon on the iPhone home screen to reveal a secret menu.

There are tons of apps that have a “hidden” button inside the logo.

For example, long press the Apple Messages app to quickly send text messages to your favorite contacts.

Try it on the Settings app and you’ll get a secret menu with shortcuts to Bluetooth, WiFi, mobile data and battery.

If you hold down on Images, a search function is revealed which is used to find images quickly.

You can also immediately navigate to photos from “One year ago” using this menu.

And you can quickly jump to your favorites and latest ones too.

By long-pressing Apple Maps, you can quickly search for nearby locations.

You can also use this menu to instantly tag or share your location.

Holding down on the Apple Camera app gives you quick access to different shooting modes.

This includes Selfie, Portrait, Portrait Selfie and Record Video.

But it’s not just Apple apps that have Quick Actions – it’s available for other apps too.

We recently revealed how WhatsApp has a hidden menu using this trick.

You can use it to quickly share your WhatsApp QR code, launch the in-app camera, start a new chat or search your conversations.

And the Instagram menu lets you instantly start a direct message, view your activity, create a new post or launch the app’s camera.

iPhone Trick #3 – Go Fast!

It’s possible to move multiple apps at once – and even quickly scroll through home screen pages.

If you’ve ever moved around an iPhone app, you know it can be a pain.

You have to long press to make the app icon flip, then drag them from side to side, one at a time.

But that’s not the only way to do it: there’s a clever hack that makes it much faster.

First, hold down an app until it wiggles.

It’s the signal from Apple that an app is ready to move.

Then slide the app out of the slot with one finger so it floats between the rows.

While still holding the first app, use another finger to tap another app.

This will add the other app to the stack so you can move them together.

You can continue to add apps to the stack as long as you keep the original finger down on the screen.

Then you can simply drop all the apps in the location (or folder) where you want them to be.

Moving apps can also be a pain: usually you have to drag them to the edge and wait for the panel to shuffle over.

But there is an easier way.

But there is a much easier way to do it.

Hold an app until it wiggles, then release it.

While holding this app, use your other hand to swipe between screens (just like you normally would).

This will also pull the app you are “holding” through to the other screen as well.