Declutter Your Phone Apps in 5 Minutes
Is your phone as cluttered with apps as the rest of your life? Are you an app collector (hoarder)? How many do you really use or are they just unique and you thought you’d use them?
Declutter your phone apps for 5 minutes. Delete unused or rarely used apps on your phone. Re-arrange what’s left, with your most used app’s front and center.
One step better. Delete those apps that are chronic time wasters for you. You know the ones. It will only hurt a little bit.
Read 10 Simple Ways to Declutter Your Phone for more information from livingwellspendingless.com.
To recap, here are 10 Simple Ways to Declutter Your Phone Apps
1. Delete Unused Apps
2. Hide Less Frequently Used Apps
3. Create Folders
4. Organize Apps by Task
5. Organize Apps by Usage, with Emojis, and More
6. For iPhones, Organize Your Dock & Home Screen
7. For Android, Keep Your Home Screen Minimal
8. Use Cloud Storage
9. Stream Music
10. Back up Photos & Delete
Now, if you are looking for apps, here are some we like for moving and traveling.
About Janet
A Certified Professional Organizer and a published contributor to the book Get Organized Today, Janet Schiesl is the owner of Basic Organization–a leading professional home organizing services company in Northern Virginia. A personal organizer since 2005, Janet loves using her experience as a space planner to challenge her clients to look at the areas of a home differently. Recognized as the 2016 Washington DC Area Organizer of the Year by NAPO, the National Association of Productivity and Organizing Professionals where she served as president, Janet specializes in managing large organizing projects and working one-on-one with clients who need help organizing their home or office. Contact Janet at 571-265-1303 or click to schedule a discovery call to find out what Janet and her team can organize for you!
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Janet Schiesl
Janet has been organizing since 2005. She is a Certified Professional Organizer and the owner of Basic Organization.
She loves using her background as a space planner to challenge her clients to look at their space differently. She leads the team in large projects and works one-on-one with clients to help the process move quickly and comfortably. Call her crazy, but she loves to work with paper, to purge what is not needed and to create filing systems that work for each individual client.
Janet is a Past Board Member of the National Association of Productivity and Organizing Professionals and a Past President of the Washington DC Chapter of NAPO were she has been named Organizer of the Year and Volunteer of the Year.
Janet Schiesl
Janet has been organizing since 2005. She is a Certified Professional Organizer and the owner of Basic Organization.
She loves using her background as a space planner to challenge her clients to look at their space differently. She leads the team in large projects and works one-on-one with clients to help the process move quickly and comfortably. Call her crazy, but she loves to work with paper, to purge what is not needed and to create filing systems that work for each individual client.
Janet is a Past Board Member of the National Association of Productivity and Organizing Professionals and a Past President of the Washington DC Chapter of NAPO were she has been named Organizer of the Year and Volunteer of the Year.
I did this a couple of months ago. I finally took a few minutes to sit down and put the apps I am actually using on my home screen. Funny how I put that off for so long, because it took me only a few minutes – exactly as you say! I know someone who intentionally deleted social media apps from her phone. She will check on her laptop, but didn’t want to see the alerts when she was out and about. She loves it… something to think about:)
It only take a few minutes to do this task and it’s so helpful. I have turned off the notifications for my social media apps. I can’t get rid of them just yet.
Your post is timely. Like Seana, I too recently deleted some apps. The ones I use the most are available on my home screen. However, watching your video, I think I have some more letting go and reorganizing to do. Thanks for the nudge.
Good for you Linda!
I’ve done this. But — oh, look! It needs to be done again!
I think you could do this ever few months or at least every 6 months. I tend to collect apps and then never use them.
I love to try new apps. So, I have a lot of them. However, I only keep them if they are useful so I remove them right away. The issue is that they automatically get downloaded on my tablet as well – ugh. So, I have to delete them from there as well. It’s important to revisit this every 3-4 months to get rid of any unwanted apps. I limit myself to two swipes (pages) on my phone. When I fill them up, I start deleting.
I create folders for similar apps. I have one for all the parking apps that I have used in my area. It simplifies my screen and makes it easier for me to find what I am looking for.
Great idea! I did this a while ago, and it is probably time to remove more apps. It is amazing how quickly a phone can get filled up with unecessary apps.
Nancy, do you collect apps? I hear about a new one, so download it to try. Sometimes I do, but usually I don’t even try it.
Hi Janet,
At first I thought I didn’t have any apps that I didn’t need but apparently I did. Sometimes I am afraid to delete an app thinking I could be making a mistake but I see that some of them will not allow you to delete. I hope that deleting these will help with my message I keep getting about my I Cloud being full. ugh!!
I chuckled at your question “Is your phone as cluttered as the rest of your life”. haha. It is so true though. Email is certainly another area that really gets full and causes you to feel overwhelmed. It is really hard to get a handle on it.
Kim, digital clutter (phone, tablet and computer) is just as challenging as physical clutter. You’ve got to keep it organized. Just a few minutes at a time can help you organize your digital life. I think I’ll do a facebook live video on this. Thanks for the idea!
Some apps were pre-installed and can’t be removed but I bet there are a few that could go. Great way to pass time when I have a few minutes to kill!
I like to move the pre-installed apps that I don’t use to my last screen so they are out of the way. I tend to download apps all the time. But if I don’t use them after a while I delete them.