iPhone OS 4 doesn’t just add multitasking. Oh no. Apple’s got a plan to help bring its homescreen up to speed and whittle down the pages of icons you’ve racked up by now: folders. But not just any folders: they’re automated ones, which will name themselves after the types of apps you bung in them.
While you still can’t use folders in iPhone OS 4 to stash pictures and video in your own file structures, it will let you tidy up your iPhone’s homescreen very intuitively. You just drag and drop one app on another to create a folder, which when tapped on expands to reveal all the programs within.
Even better, iPhone OS 4 knows what category each app is, and will name the folder after what you put in there: shove Doodle Jump and Canabalt in one and it’ll call it “Games”, no sweat. Not bad, Apple. Stay tuned for even more iPhone OS 4 details.
Out Summer | £TBC | Apple
