How to restore app library organization after reverting from Assistive Access on iPhone?

I put my phone into assistive access because I was attempting to not use it very much for a few days. After one night of it being in Assistive Access the next morning I needed something in the normal phone mode that I didn’t have access to. I realized you can’t text people photos in Assistive Access.


I reverted back to the way my phone was before and found that my whole entire app library has been completely reorganized. Instead of having all those categories of different apps, there’s now significantly fewer categories and most apps are stuck in the “recently added” box. I’m not sure why they aren’t be categorized like they were before. There’s a ton in the productivity and finance box whereas before these were very much separate. I’m someone who only uses the app library so I was disappointed to find that it was completely ruined.


Does anyone know how to actually organize the app library or make the algorithm understand what app is what? I don’t think there’s any settings that can fix this but maybe there’s some things I don’t know? I’m assuming time will force the phone to start categorizing through each app and start reorganizing but still this is very frustrating.



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iPhone 15 Pro, iOS 18

Posted on Apr 1, 2025 9:15 AM

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Apr 5, 2025 9:26 PM in response to Camille_Powell

Re: "Does anyone know how to actually organize the app library:

I’m not sure why they aren’t be categorized like they were before."


Apple support have some articles online that may (or may not) be helpful:


Organize the Home Screen and App Library on your iPhone - Apple Support

Eg: App Library: Your apps are automatically sorted into categories. For example, you might see your social media apps under a Social category. The apps that you use most frequently will automatically reorder based on your usage. When you install new apps, they'll be added to your App Library, but you can change where new apps get downloaded.


For the Home screen you can

Organize your apps in folders on iPhone - Apple Support

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