I have tons of apps on my iphone and they have become very disorrganized and hard to find some. I so miss the abilty to easliy rearrange your phone apps in itunes on your desktop or laptop I was hesitant to try this app and deided to give it a go. I feel its quirky and a litte hard to make it work. I had so many screens of apps that configurator 2 did not show all the screens and I could not figure out how to change that. I did find work arounds by piling the apps on the last few screens that werent showing up onto other screens that did show up then I was able to reconfigure and move pretty easly all the apps I wanted to move or rearragne. Was WAY WAY easier that using wiggle mode on my phone. Seems like it should be easy to fix the issues I had or put it back in iTunes. I have been an apple convert for a long time now and sometimes they do some REALLY REALLY stupid stuff and taking the ability to move apps easily in iTunes was stupid. At least Configurator 2 is better than nothing.

So at first it took a min to figure out what i can do as opposed to what it says it will/can do. Two greatly dif aspects if you can believe that. And this was a few years ago. Since then ive had seamnless enjoyment and zero headaches or mishaps. Im not able to compeletely erase and product back to its original state, even do away with those pesky icloud locked alerts. Lots of people fail to delete thier icloud actually upon resell i've been noticing when i might see an icloud locked device on ebay/offer up etc. Since people rather try and sell it off (even legit ones since i only will pick it up after seeing ownership is seller, the latter would just be outright stupid) at huge discount to then just go back to apple with cash and finance rest. Most will do it for sheer fact they "wanted to upgrade anyways!" This app has helped me maintain and configure my 6 apple devices seemingly. So thank you for this product, now lets talk what is used to debug/diag the apple watch from 7 and up as you did away with the only port to make it more waterproof?

I tried the iOS 14 screen organization tools and decided I would prefer to orgainize my screen myself again, but iOS 14's auto reorganizing had already done its damage and I found that the defunct iTunes' functionality was not replaced by the Finder. So I had to go on a Google search (the irony) to figure out how to reorganize my iPhone homescreens (if you have ever tried to do it on the phone itself you know it is a lesson in futility). Configurator 2 works ok once you learn its quirks. To move an app from one folder to another you need to double click the folder, click on the app you want to move, and drag it near the x in the upper left corner of the box for a couple of seconds, at which point the app will be released from the folder and you can relocate it. Also, you should click the x to close modified folders, not the apply button, and the folder will save its modified state. Clicking apply will take you out of the homescreen editor completely which is useful only if you are completely done editing. It took a lot of fidgeting to learn those issues.

I downloaded this app for the same reason a lot of people download it; because Apple has given us no reasonable solution for managing the layout of app screens on iOS. For me it just flat-out doesn't work. It says it worked, but it doesn't make any changes to my device. And if I ask it what the configuration on the device is now, it reports the original unmodified configuration.I assume all this is because I'm running Mojave.I spent 45 minutes trying to get my iPhone to rearrange the apps, but it's hopeless if you have very many folders, and also hopeless if you don't and have them on screens instead. iOS randomly deletes empty pages you laboriously create. And you are stressed the whole time because you know if you fail to do anything for a moment it will time out and delete all the empty space you manually created. For a premium company, this is a subpar experience.I realize this app is intended for people who are doing mobile device management. But irrespective it should work.

Downloaded it today so I could reorganize my home screens since it's so incredibly hard to do ON your phone (that's another horrible attribute from Apple that makes you scratch your head and wonder if they even use their own devices). This app doesn't work on my Mac very well at all; the screens don't size correctly, and you can't see all the sub-folder home screens, and you can't move apps from one sub-folder home screen to another if that screen is full (it doesn't move bump them over like it does on your iPhone)... THEN, once I spend about 20 minutes reoganizing them, and I go to "apply" the changes, the App crashes. I'm using the app on my iMac to manage my iPhone, and you'd think these things would work together beautifully -- nope -- trash. Glad I didn't pay for it, but you do get what you pay for, soo... my advice is to not bother with this garbage app.

All of the reviews regarding managing the iPhone's home screen should be deleted as irrelevant. Those people obviously don't understnad what this app is for.This software is for managing Apple devices from the firmware level out to fleets of hundreds or thousands of devices. You can perform the lowest level revives, managing individual backups, restore Apple Silicon Macs as well as T2 Intel Macs, all the way to fully managed MDM/DEP solutions.The fact that this even allows you to manage your iPhone home screen is completely beside the point. Apple should remove the functionality entirely so these people will go complain somewhere else. Maybe they will eventually learn to swipe down on the home screen and search for the app they want. Or just do it on your iPhone, it takes like 5 minutes.This app is incredible, powerful, and super reliable. It's frankly embarassing that so many people can't figure out how to move icons around, to be honest. I don't see how it could be easier. But they shouldn't take their frustration out on this poor app. You guys are doing excellent work, keep it up!

This may be the poster child for how bad things have gotten with Apple’s software quality.Try using this software for the most simple possible thing: Moving icons around on your fully-updated iPhone’s home screen. That’s a function that used to be in iTunes, but got removed because Reasons. Selecting the option to modify the home screen will, after a pause, bring up a sort-of, kind-of view of your apps in a dialog sheet.But the icons will be small; small enough to be hard to see—on a 27” Retina iMac. And the bottom row will be cut off. The font will be odd. You won’t see your iPhone wallpaper, either. There will be four app icons floating at the bottom of the sheet; after a moment, you’ll realize those are the Dock icons. The UI doesn’t make this clear.Now try resizing the sheet. (After all, you want to see if you can make those tiny icons bigger.)All but the first row of app icons will disappear, the Spinning Wheel of Death starts, and the application locks up until you force-quit it. Because you resized a dialog sheet.(Should this even BE a modal interaction?)This application is more mid-‘90s Microsoft than Apple. It’s an embarrasment. That it’s at version 2.6.1 and still this rough and buggy speaks volumes about how Apple’s software engineers are spread too thin and vital projects are not receiving badly-needed attention.

The interface in iTunes for editing the iOS home screen pages was pretty bad and mysteriously processor-intensive, but now that we've inexplicably lost that ability in iTunes without having a consumer-level replacement ready to go, Apple has somehow managed to make an interface that is worse. The iTunes interface at least actually worked. This one requires making the window much bigger than your screen so that you can get to the later pages of apps. Scrollbars are passé.Pro tip: you would think that clicking and dragging on a home screen page would allow you to drag-and-drop it somewhere within the lineup of pages, but it doesn't. To move a page, click and hold. That will then allow you to drag the page. If you're thinking that that isn't how drag-and-drop works in the Finder or anywhere else on the Mac, you're right! You get a frustration cookie.

During the macOS Monterey beta, I foolishly erased the hard drive trying to do a clean install (in my meager defense, the drive utility gave me no warning how bad a mistake this would be). This utterly bricked my MBA. Absolutely nothing worked to resurrect it. Then I found a couple of videos that said Configurator 2 could do it. And it worked. I'd give it 5 stars except it's so finicky. I had to follow along with a video and hold the keys down exactly like the guy in the video, letting go the instant he did. Also I went through several USB-C cables to find one that works (because Apple doesn't mark them very well so we can differentiate them). Otherwise though, I'm delighted with the one single function I used )))

This was not designed for the majority of people that want to use it. It was only designed to manage multiple iOS devices. If you are just trying to find a way to rearange your app icons then this currently, and at least for ther past 8 months doesn't work. Apple decided long ago to prevent iPhone owners from easily rearanging their Icons on their Macs. The higher-ups probably found this app allowed people to do this and shut it down. "Actions - Modify - Home Screen Layout..." allows you to rearrange all of your icons, then when you Click on Apply you realize the functiopn DOES NOT WORK. All of your time rearanging was waisted time. Support has known about this issue and has been able to reproduce it since at least september 2019 as of June 2020 it has still not been fixed. (Version 2.12.1)

I have been a loyal apple client for decades but of recent have been experiencing more and more disapointments. It appears that apple is following the rest of the industry in releasing crap. Their hardware and software has been getting worse for a few years now. This app is a perfect example. Apple removed the ability to organize ios apps from itunes and now tell us to use app configurator 2. Well like several other apple products, it doesn't work. I spent an hour moving apps around in thier app configurator and then clicked apply. It looked like it was doing something, but when it was done nothing had changed. When did things get so bad? I am looking to upgrade my computer system again and am having a hard time justifying apples current product line. Where is Steve Jobs when you need him?

I see a lot of negative comments here … but I honestly believe that the reason is because people just don’t understand the program and its purpose. It is NOT like Configurator 1 … so if you’re expecting a fancier version of Configurator 1 then you’re going to be confused. The logic and workflow of Configurator 2 is not the same … so take a little time to wrap your head around it.If you have a strong sense of logic you will appreciate this program. I use it all the time without issue. We have six hundred iPads at this school district, and each one is supervised and managed initially with Apple Configurator 2 and then remotely with Meraki MDM.Also, I see negative comments that just don’t make sense … I think that some people don’t understand what it means to “supervise” a device.So, in other words, the average user probably will not understand how and why to use this … but if you work in an IT Department for a school or business and manage multiple devices then this program works just fine. And it’s free….