What's on your iPhone?

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Since we have a good few of these "What's on your iPhone" articles up on iMore already, I figured it's time for you guys in the forums to finally share what's on your iPhone, how's it configured, how you have laid everything out on your home screens...It's just the way it goes, the cool kids are doing it and now it's our turn.

Personally, I got a few constant things on my iPhone I need to have on there. I keep the front home screen stock, just because. But I just need to have one single other home screen page full of all the folders for all the apps. I keep the arrangements of these folders constant to get a regularity of usage when finding the essential apps I need to reach for much of the day. I group them in terms of obvious thematic categorisation too so it makes sense for me, eliminating all confusion and time wastage when using my device.

Some apps I need on there:

BBM - I once was a Blackberry user and I still have many friends I reach through this on a daily basis. Like all other IMs and social networks, I use every single one of them for the various groups of friends I keep in touch with.

My IM apps - Whatsapp, Snapchat, Line, Wechat, Hangouts, Facebook Messenger.

My Social Network apps - Google, Facebook, Twitter and Tweetbot for more specific Twitter needs.

Instagram - The best photo sharing app for me, and it has the best filters to keep things vibrant for me on there.

Vine - I use this because I love that Instagram-like sharing capabilities but for a six second video this time. It's a fresh concept, it forces me to apply some artistic effort for once, and I like how the tutorials in there are so intuitive for getting my video split up in important chunks, so it would also loop itself among other things.

Audible - I have little time to read sometimes, and I just want the visual aspect of my content more. This app keeps things aural but fulfils my also important need for books and literature.

Kindle, Kobo, iBooks - I need books, what can I say, and these apps are as polished as I can expect e-book readers these days. Certainly e-book reading has come a long way.

Marvel Comics, DC Comics, Viz Manga etc. - I do have a love for reading the graphic novel side of things, so these are needed as well. E-Comic-book reading has come a long way too.

Podcasts - I used iCatcher for awhile and I never thought there would come a day when Apple's very own podcast app has matured enough to replace iCatcher for my daily use. It is as intuitive as a podcast app can be, and I never could fault the flawless downloading speed on it. It makes me keep updated on iMore's podcast and things I have to have in my system every week.

I use every single in-built app on there, for the record, and if something impresses me enough to make me use it, most likely it's there. iOS, to me, is the greatest gift that keeps on giving, as far as my iPhone is concerned. Search, Image editing, name it, and most likely I have used and liked the stock implementations of those things like they were old friends.

Now it's over to you guys...Do share the things you absolutely must have to keep you and your iPhone ticking.
 

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My must have apps on my iPhone are:

Goodreader - A great .pdf reader/writer that syncs across my iPad and iPhone and with Dropbox and can also sync with my home PC too.
Dicenomicon - A polyhedral dice random number generator. I'm a tabletop roleplayer and this means I don't have to bring dice with me to a game. Just the best app for doing this bar none, in my opinion!
Tube Map - London subway/tube map, with journey planner and real time incident indicator too
National Rail Enquiries - Overground train journey planner. Invaluable for me as I go into London quite a lot and need to know if there are incidents on the line.
Gmail - I have my work email sent to the Gmail app and my personal email goes to the Apple Mail app. That way I won't get them confused and send a work email from my personal account and vice versa.
Skype - I spend a lot of time in other countries away from my good lady so we chat via Skype every day when I am away.
IMDb - For my profession it's invaluable
Photobucket - I've had a PB account for years and this is a great app for me to see everything in my PB account right on my device without hassle
Atomic Web Browser - I prefer this to Safari. I bought it a few years back and just love how customisable it is.
LA Times - News app from my favourite town so I can keep up with what's going on whilst I am away.
BBC News - News from my home country
 

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Tapatalk Pro
iMore
TheScore
Tunein Radio Pro
Flipboard
Shazam
1Password
Spotify
 
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Tapatalk Pro
Evernote
Dropbox
Datavault
The Weather Channel
ESPN SC
Google Maps
Starbucks
My Banking App that I bank with
Instagram


Sent from my iPad Retina using Tapatalk Pro!
 

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GasBuddy
Weather Underground
eWeather HD
Splash ID
OurGrouceries
CNBC Alarm Clock
Twiter
CNBC
Feedly
StockTwits
Fidelity Investments
Cigar Boss
Google Play Music
TV Guide
RoadNinja
FlightAware
AAA
Slice
Notability
Evernote
CVS
PhotoSync
Good Luck
 

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Top row:
Settings, Clock, Calendars 5, Light
2nd Row: Folders
Productivity: Pages, Notes, Box, Sign Easy, SwiftKey, Printer Pro, Documents by Readdle, Folder Plus, bitly, Weebly
Music/Tube: Stock iTunes, Radio Paradise, Tune-In Radio Pro, Spotify, YouTube, Jasmine, Vizzywig, Vine, Horizon, Downloads
Weather: 48 Local, WeatherUnderground, Stock, Tornado, eWeather HD
Games: Solitaire, Flood-It 2, Ball Hop, Words Pro, Tetris, Gutterball, Anodia, PAC-MAN, Temple Run, ArcherWC 2, 2048, Percepto, Escapology, iFishing lite, iFishing SE, Flappy Bird
Row 3:
Utilities: iHear, Speedtest.net, System, Screenshot, Reminders, CM Security, Calculator, voice memos, voice dictation
News: Fox News, Heritage, Mental Floss, Yahoo, Pulse, Mashable, iMore
Social Media: Facebook, Twitter, Tweetbot 3, Friendly+, OKDOTHIS, Tadaa 3D
Forums: TapaTalk, iCafe, iPF.net, iMore, MacRumors
Row 4:
Biz: App Store, iTunes Store, BI Mobile (bank), Amazon, Pay Pal, Zee, QVC, My Verizon, Xfinity
Reference: Convert Units, iThesaurus, ChordBank, Translate, Appsgonefree, White Pages, Wikipedia

Safari

Puffin Free

Row 5:
Bill Pay: 4 sites (bookmarklets)

Mail

Photoshop: Superimpose, Facetune, gradient blender pro, eraser, Gloomlogue, Rays, waterlogue, aremaC
Framing: Frame Artist+, Frame Magic, imikimi lite, Mematic,

Dock: Phone,
Messages: stock/iMessage, FB Messenger, FaceTime
Photography: Photos, iPhoto, Camera+, MyPhoto, stock camera, color manager, Bugshot, Gif Boom Pro, Cal Studio, image size, Phonto

ProCamera 7
:)



Sent from from my iPhone 5
 

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OneNote
TweetBot
News 360
Google Wallet - For my Google Mastercard
Steam - to buy and install PC games
Walgreens
Yelp
Slice - for tracking orders
Check - Bill payments
Rdio
Pandora
Beamly - for tracking TV shows and seeing what's on
Swell
1Password
Pushbullet
Pinswift
Burner - for "burnable" phone numbers
OneDrive
Facebook
Google+
Instagram
BaconReader - for Reddit
Twitter
Line
Hangouts
Skype - for work
BBM - for old BlackBerry contacts
OWA - Outlook Web app for work
Glassdoor
CloudMagic - for personal email
Convertizo - unit converter
Marvel Unlimted
Comixolgy
Stack Exchange for stackoverflow.com
MS Remote Desktop
and all the stock apps
 

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Holy Bible
Tapatalk Pro / iMore Forums
Reeder
DataVault
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Evernote
Drafts (I'm using to create this list)
iA Writer
Readability
Weather Underground
Hi-Def Radar
Skype
Slack
BBM
Google Hangouts
Asana
Twitter
OpenVPN
Bank of America
pdf Expert
Google Voice
Apple Remote
theScore
Keyring
Starbucks
Writing Aid
Skitch
Touch Blur
Bokeh
Scanner Pro
iScanner
TuneIn Radio Pro
2048
SpellTower
Guess The Emoji
 

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--- Essentials:
Week Cal - best calendar app with lot of customizations
OneNote - best notes app with awesome sync and infinity possibilities
Launch Center Pro - launch almost any action and app via this app
OmniFocus - best task management system, especially in combination with Drafts and reminder import
Drafts - universal app for notes and to use them in other apps, for actions etc.

--- Graphics:
PS Express - quick and easy powerful photo manipulation and editing
Groupshot - magically fuses group pictures to a perfect version of parts of the several ones

--- Organization:
Stocard - all cards from your pocket digitally
Instashare - sends/receive files via wifi/Bluetooth to your iOS devices and Mac
TextExpander - expends snippets in supported apps (e.g. OmniFocus, Drafts etc.)
1Password - stores all passwords and data securely and have access from different devices and Mac
dict.cc plus - best (offline) dictionary

--- Media:
SoundHound∞ - recognizes almost any sound and Music
Recordium - awesome recorder app with nice look and easy to use
MxTube - best YouTube client with a lot of cool features e.g. playing videos/music in background, loop etc.
Instagram - social network for sharing picture with friends and follow people to see theirs :|
Facebook - social network... I think I don't need to explain :|
Tapatalk - best forum app for supported forums (e.g. this one) to see and write very easy with lots of awesome features
Ziner - RSS client which shows your Feedly news in a compact and cool way with gesture etc.
Pocket - best and also free Save-for-later service

--- Locations:
Google Maps - very good maps service from Google with a lot of good features in comparison to stock maps app
AroundMe - show almost anything around you (or a chosen place), e.g. banks, restaurants, caf?s etc.

--- Communication: (basically all are chat app, some of them also with calling and other cool features)
Viber
Skype
Hangouts
Telegram
Threema
Messenger (Facebook)
Whatsapp

--- Productivity:
30/30 - good time tracking and planing app
iThoughts - best MindMapping software for iOS
GeniusScan+ - very awesome and powerful app for digitalizing documents with lot of options
Office mobile - open and edit Microsoft office documents and save to your onedrive
TextGrabber - OCR (optical character recognition) your documents to get the text
Anki - really really awesome flash card app to study almost anything with flash cards, also on web and all systems e.g. Mac
Nebulous notes - good notes app which syncs everything with Dropbox, also have lot of customization options, themes etc.
GoodReader - most powerful PDF reading and editing app
Dropbox - very fast and widely used cloud service
Google Drive - cloud service from Google
 
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Here's my list of apps installed on my iPhone 5 -

Clear - https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/clear-tasks-reminders-to-do/id493136154?mt=8&at=10l3Vy

Intelli IM - https://itunes.apple.com/in/app/intelli-im/id507877612?mt=8&at=10l3Vy

Facebook - https://itunes.apple.com/in/app/facebook/id284882215?mt=8&at=10l3Vy

Adobe Reader - https://itunes.apple.com/in/app/adobe-reader/id469337564?mt=8&at=10l3Vy

Amazon - https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/amazon-app/id297606951?mt=8&at=10l3Vy

Book my show - https://itunes.apple.com/in/app/bookmyshow-movie-event-play/id405894842?mt=8&at=10l3Vy

CB Forums - https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/crackberry-forums/id556626391?mt=8&at=10l3Vy

Citibank - https://itunes.apple.com/in/app/citibank-in/id467987820?mt=8&at=10l3Vy

Cleartrip - https://itunes.apple.com/in/app/cleartrip-flights-hotels-indian/id531324961?mt=8&at=10l3Vy

ContactsSync - https://itunes.apple.com/in/app/contacts-sync-for-google-gmail/id454390333?mt=8&at=10l3Vy

Currency - https://itunes.apple.com/in/app/xe-currency/id315241195?mt=8&at=10l3Vy

Dropbox - https://itunes.apple.com/in/app/dropbox/id327630330?mt=8&at=10l3Vy

eBay - https://itunes.apple.com/in/app/ebay/id282614216?mt=8&at=10l3Vy

Expedia - https://itunes.apple.com/in/app/expedia-hotels-flights/id427916203?mt=8&at=10l3Vy

Flipkart - https://itunes.apple.com/in/app/flipkart/id742044692?mt=8&at=10l3Vy

Flipkart eBooks - https://itunes.apple.com/in/app/flipkart-ebooks/id660859538?mt=8&at=10l3Vy

Google Maps - https://itunes.apple.com/in/app/google-maps/id585027354?mt=8&at=10l3Vy

HDFC Bank - https://itunes.apple.com/in/app/hdfc-bank-mobilebanking/id515891771?mt=8&at=10l3Vy

Heart Rate - https://itunes.apple.com/in/app/instant-heart-rate-heart-rate/id409625068?mt=8&at=10l3Vy

iCleaner - No more available on App Store

iMore - https://itunes.apple.com/in/app/imore/id511668903?mt=8&at=10l3Vy

iMore Forums - https://itunes.apple.com/in/app/imore-forums/id518644175?mt=8&at=10l3Vy

Instagram- https://itunes.apple.com/in/app/instagram/id389801252?mt=8&at=10l3Vy

My airtel - https://itunes.apple.com/in/app/my-airtel/id543184334?mt=8&at=10l3Vy

Pic Collage - https://itunes.apple.com/in/app/pic-collage-video-photo-editing/id448639966?mt=8&at=10l3Vy

Nike + Running - https://itunes.apple.com/in/app/nike+-running/id387771637?mt=8&at=10l3Vy

Scanner Pro - https://itunes.apple.com/in/app/scanner-pro-by-readdle/id333710667?mt=8&at=10l3Vy

Speed Test - https://itunes.apple.com/in/app/speedtest.net-mobile-speed/id300704847?mt=8&at=10l3Vy

Viber - https://itunes.apple.com/in/app/viber/id382617920?mt=8&at=10l3Vy

Wallpapers - https://itunes.apple.com/in/app/wallpapers-hd-for-iphone-ipod/id398383945?mt=8&at=10l3Vy

Webex - https://itunes.apple.com/in/app/cisco-webex-meetings/id298844386?mt=8&at=10l3Vy

Whatsapp - https://itunes.apple.com/in/app/whatsapp-messenger/id310633997?mt=8&at=10l3Vy

Wikipedia - https://itunes.apple.com/in/app/wikipedia-mobile/id324715238?mt=8&at=10l3Vy

Youtube - https://itunes.apple.com/in/app/youtube/id544007664?mt=8&at=10l3Vy

Zomato - https://itunes.apple.com/in/app/zomato-restaurant-finder/id434613896?mt=8&at=10l3Vy

Launch Center Pro - https://itunes.apple.com/in/app/launch-center-pro/id532016360?mt=8&at=10l3Vy
 
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In my list above, I left out 1Password and an old password app I'd had for 2 years. Before Christmas, my wife wanted to know what I wanted. I had just seen where 1Password had gone on sale for $9.99. So that's what she gave me for Christmas. But then I drug my feet and let it sit there unused. Until now. It's great! But it sure is time consuming entering all my info in. I don't know yet if I'll back it up to iCloud or Dropbox. :)
 

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Oh gosh were do I start. Here we go::
Facebook
Facebook mess anger
Pages
Keynote
Numbers
Tapatalk
iMovie
Clipboard
App advice
Toucharcade
Downloads
Modern combat 5
Infinite blade 3
Sanandreas GTA
Tweetboot
Tumblr
CNN
Play station news
Playstation app
Monument valley
Uber
Vlc player
Dropbox
Whatsapp
Movie box( jailbreak)
Music lyric.
Puffin browser
Banking app
Commonwealth
Seek jobs
Steam
eBay
Instagram
Imore
Snapchat
PayPal
 

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Social- Facebook, instagram, snapchat, Twitter, Messenger, Pinterest, KIk, Tapatalk, timehop
Photography- camoji, camera!, picstitch, Flipagram, Instasize
Fun stuff- Hashtags, tagsforlikes, daily quotes
Other- BB&T BANKING, Pebble, meme factory, subway surf, fml, zedge, piano tiles, guess the emoji
 

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Oh heck who knows....

Banking apps, insurance apps, Instagram, FB, Twitter, American Red Cross Pet Emergency, transportation apps, Google apps, photo apps, news, Tapatalk....beeeellions and beeeeellions of apps......
 

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Oh heck who knows....

Banking apps, insurance apps, Instagram, FB, Twitter, American Red Cross Pet Emergency, transportation apps, Google apps, photo apps, news, Tapatalk....beeeellions and beeeeellions of apps......

......and this is why my next iPhone device will be a 64gb or more....SMILE
 

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Right now I'm using a yellow 32GB iPhone 5C (another one to add to the Apple Collection), and the apps I use is:

Tapatalk
iMore
Alien Blue
Facebook
Twitter
Shazam
OnStar RemoteLink
YouTube
Tumblr
Asphalt 7
Bejeweled
Slingo Supreme
Scanner Pro
Capital One
Cinfed Credit Union (for my bank)
Google Drive
Dropbox
Slacker
Pandora
Music app/iTunes Radio

The list goes on......lol
 

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