Apr 22, 2009
iPhone app usage count. A feature wish
Due to an unfortunate bug in iTunes I had to restore my iPhone from a backup the other day. Everything went well, except the order of my app icons. They were now all in alphabetical order. I try to arrange my app icons based on usage, i.e. the ones I use more often come first, starting with the first screen. Since all icons where back in alphabetical order this really made me wish there would be a feature which shows you the app usage. This could simply be shown in the “app wiggle mode”.
As we all know, when you press and hold an app icon, all icons start to wiggle and you can move them around or delete them. In this mode every icon could simply show how many times you pressed/used it in the last week, month or so. I made a quick mockup below to illustrate the idea. I think this feature, apart from grouping, which is supposed to be possible with v3.0, would be really helpful to organize your apps. What do you think? Or maybe I missed something and this is already planned?
