• Go to your Home screen.
  • Touch and hold on the app you want to create a folder for until all apps begin to jiggle and you enter Edit mode. (If you have an iPhone 6s and press too hard, you'll trigger 3D Touch; tap and hold lightly to enter Edit mode.)
  • While continuing to hold your finger down on the app, drag it on top of another app you want in the same folder.
  • If you don't like the automatic name iOS creates for your folder, tap the name field and change it to anything you like, then tap Done.

  • Tap outside the folder area to return to the Home screen.
  • Drag any additional apps that you want in the folder onto the folder.
  • Click the Home button to exit Edit mode and complete the new folder.

How to add apps to folders on iPhone or iPad

  • Go to your Home screen.
  • Touch and hold on the app you want to add to your folder until all apps begin to jiggle and you enter Edit mode.
  • While continuing to hold your finger down on the app, drag it to the folder.
  • Release your finger to drop it into the folder.

  • Drag any additional apps that you want onto that folder.
  • Click the Home button to exit Edit mode.

How to remove a folder from your iPhone or iPad

  • Go to your Home screen and tap the folder in question.
  • Touch and hold on an app in the folder to enter Edit mode.
  • Drag all apps out of the folder, at which point it will disappear.