Help Alphabetical order for apps on home screen

Jedo · Dec 15, 2017

I have seen a lot of threads on this but either the answers do not fit my phone or they deal with the alphabetical order of the apps in the app drawer itself, and I am looking to organize my apps alphabetically on the home screen(s).

I am on LG V10 and I have tried the default App Drawer and the Nova Launcher.
I do not see the A-Z button anywhere (a lot of answers mentioned it). In the App Drawer there is only an option to organize the apps alphabetically in the drawer itself. I also tried looking for a "reset home screen"-type option under the general settings, but could not find one.

If I move the app icons and folders manually, they shove the existing icons out of the way in random directions, which makes organizing a screen full of app folders impossible because the moment you place one app in order, it messes up the other apps.

Is there a way to organize the app shortcuts on the home screen?

Hadron · Dec 15, 2017

I've never heard of such a thing, and see no such settings in the launchers I've got on my phone. Since most people mix apps and widgets on their home screen and arrange them in very different and personal ways I'd think it's a minority requirement.

I personally don't keep apps or folders on my desktops at all (just widgets, with some folders in the dock), so can't advise on arranging manually. Though I'd have guessed that if it's like arranging icons in a Nova folder then it would be ones "after" the location you move an app or folder to that would shift, and ones "before" would stay in place, meaning that if you start from the top-left corner you should be able to place them in the order you want with just a little work. But since I don't fill my desktops with launcher icons, and have never used the LG launcher, this is only a guess.

psionandy · Dec 15, 2017

Nova will do it for folders on the home screen... Just not the whole app screen itself

Asenter · Dec 15, 2017

Hadron said:
I've never heard of such a thing, and see no such settings in the launchers I've got on my phone. Since most people mix apps and widgets on their home screen and arrange them in very different and personal ways I'd think it's a minority requirement.

I personally don't keep apps or folders on my desktops at all (just widgets, with some folders in the dock), so can't advise on arranging manually. Though I'd have guessed that if it's like arranging icons in a Nova folder then it would be ones "after" the location you move an app or folder to that would shift, and ones "before" would stay in place, meaning that if you start from the top-left corner you should be able to place them in the order you want with just a little work. But since I don't fill my desktops with launcher icons, and have never used the LG launcher, this is only a guess.

We can do it on Android phone

psionandy · Dec 15, 2017

Asenter said:
We can do it on Android phone

OK... How would you do it?

Hadron · Dec 15, 2017

Asenter said:
We can do it on Android phone

Manually or automatically? Remember that the OP is talking about apps on home screens, not in the app drawer (which is alphabetical by default on almost any phone/launcher). Any such feature will therefore depend on the launcher app, but if you know a launcher app that will do this then please tell us because that is what the OP wants to know.

(If it's the default launcher on your phone that probably won't help, because that will almost certainly only be available on that phone model, or at most that manufacturer's devices. But it might be useful to know anyway).

Dannydet · Dec 15, 2017

Try the Microsoft launcher

psionandy · Dec 15, 2017

Dannydet said:
Try the Microsoft launcher

I like the Microsoft launcher... I'm using it right now... But I can't see how it would put the home screen in alphabetical order..

... And having spent some time last week putting the folders in alphabetical order manually... I can't see how to do it automatically

Jedo · Dec 15, 2017

Well, considering the answers I've seen so far and my experiments with the launchers, I went for an (aforementioned) alternative, which may be better in the long run anyway: I used Nova Launcher Prime to put all the apps within the apps drawer into folders and the folders are automatically organized alphabetically. I then took all the apps that I don't use but won't delete (for example because they are some weird system apps that came default with the phone) and I created a separate app drawer screen for them so that they do not get in the way. Nova Prime allows to do this.

This leaves the home screen available for widgets and the dock (at the bottom of the home screen) contains a few really important shortcuts including the app drawer.

Help Alphabetical order for apps on home screen

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