A year ago, I wrote about a trick I learned from Karl Voit’s Twitter feed on how to move the iOS cursor. It’s been extraordinarily useful to me and, I’m sure, others. Now, Voit has retweeted another very useful trick:
12 years of testing smartphones and only now I find the right way to move app icons from one screen to the other.
You hold the icon with one finger and swipe through screens with another.
I used to do it by bringing the icon to the edge of the screen which is slower/annoying.
— Stan Schroeder (@franticnews) October 31, 2019
I’ve always found moving an icon from screen to screen to be very frustrating and error prone, so of course I tried it out immediately. I’m happy to report it worked just as advertised. If you follow the conversation, you’ll see that Schroeder says it works on (at least some) Android phones too but I don’t have an Android phone to try it out with. There’s also a short video that shows the operation in action.
This isn’t earth shattering, of course, but it does eliminate one more annoyance in my life so I’m happy to have learned it.