Hello, everyone! It’s Tip Tuesday and today we will be having an iPod Touch How To: post demonstrating how to ADD an additional page to your iPod Touch. Plus! For those with a 4th Generation iPod Touch, I will also demonstrate how to group apps into their Categories too!

Normally, it’s restricted to a maximum of 11 pages of 16 apps each but you can use a “trick” to add another page making it 12 pages, or even 13 or 14… well, you get the idea. There are many videos and posts on how to do it on the iPhone but I wanted to create a post for the iPod Touch since I didn’t see any out there (or I couldn’t find one). So, the idea of the trick will be very similar but you’re seeing it done on the iPod Touch.

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As much as I love my iPod Touch, sometimes, I find that the restrictions that Apple has put in place on the iPod Touch can be a major head scratcher and downright silly. Take the example of the pages restriction on the iPod Touch. If you take a look at those little white dots on the bottom of the page of apps you have, you can count that there are only eleven of them (the leftmost one is not a dot but a miniature search/magnifying glass icon). So, if you’re like me who loves apps and wants to install as many as I can fit into it, you’ll soon find out that once you’ve filled up all the icon spaces on each of the eleven pages, you can’t fit any more. The app is installed on your iPod Touch but you can’t access it. I call this “limbo land”.

I discovered this problem one time when I unknowingly installed more apps than the eleven pages which is a maximum of 176 (16 apps/pg x 11 pg) or more specifically, 162 (16 apps/pg x 10 pg + 2). I was looking all over for the app and went back to the iTunes app store to find that it’s “installed” but yet it doesn’t show up. Then, I realized that I’ve filled up all the little app icon spaces on each of the eleven pages. The newly installed app is in my iPod Touch but there’s no way for me to access it. It was in “limbo land”. The only way I could have it show up again is to remove or delete some apps so that there’s some available space again for the app to show back up. That’s silly in my view, why the iPod Touch and the iPhone has that number of pages restriction. After all, even with the smallest storage of 8GB on the iPod Touch may very well store more than 11 pages worth of apps so why the 11 page restriction?

However, I did some sleuthing on this subject (the power of internet) and found that there is a workaround “trick” that will trick the iPod Touch and the iPhone into creating or adding a new page. It’s quite simple but there is a bit of work to do however. But if *I* can do it, you can definitely do so too.

The idea of this “trick” is to first fill up all the available app spots on your iPod Touch and then move the Voice Memo app (from the first page) to the last spot on the last page and then temporarily use one of the apps on the bottom menu bar to move into that spot and boot the Voice Memo app into “limbo land”. Then fill up the empty spot again with another app or bookmark to make sure that all app slots are full again. Then do a reboot. And voila! An extra page has been created! Check out the number of white dots at the bottom: twelve!

PLEASE NOTE: When doing the reboot, make sure you are pressing and holding on the POWER button AND and button round Home button. You will first see the “Slide to Power Off” screen but you need to keep pressing and holding until you see the silver Apple icon come up. Then, you release the buttons. Also, the reboot/reset WILL take a few minutes (3 - 5 or so), so don’t panic if the Apple icon seems to stay like that forever. Just leave it alone and wait for the usual lock screen to show up. It will.

In the video, I have also demonstrated the new Categories feature available on the 4th Generation iPod Touch.

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For the 4th Generation iPod Touch, there’s also a new Categories feature that also addresses the “too many apps” problem. You can now “group” similar apps together to take up only one app icon slot instead of the usual one app per slot. To do this, simply tap and hold on an app icon (just like you did on previous versions) until the apps start vibrating and there’s the “x” on the top left corner of each app. Now move any of the apps you want to group together and drag it “INTO” that app. Normally, on previous versions of the iPod Touch, the app will go into that slot but the other apps will move to make way for it. But, on the newer 4th Generation iPod Touch and iPhone, the app will go “into” that slot and you will end up seeing two apps inside the icon slot. Now you have taken up one less app icon slot space than you did before this. You can group up to 12 apps into one app slot. The interesting thing about this Categories feature is that it will be intelligent enough to come up with a name for the group. If you’ve gotten a few dictionary apps together, it will name it Reference. If you want to change and rename it, simply enter the name you want in the field. Very cool.

Now with this new Categories feature, rather than having a maximum of 162 personalized apps, you can have 1920 apps installed ((12 apps per slot x 16 slots per page x 10 pages) + 12 apps per slot x 2 slots) before you even NEED to make an extra page.

Slideshow demonstrating how to add more pages to iPod Touch

Slideshow showing how to group apps into Categories

Video demonstrating 1) How to add more pages to iPod Touch + 2) How to Group apps into Categories (4th Gen only)

How to Add More Pages on iPod Touch AND how to group apps into Categories (4th Gen iPod Touch only) (on YouTube)

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