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Quickly Enter Jiggle Mode in iOS and iPadOS 14

• Ryan

Once you establish a habit for interacting with your device, you’ll likely never know if a better, quicker way to do that same thing is introduced in a future software update. Until recently, that was my experience with entering jiggle mode on my iPhone and iPad.

I’ve been trying a lot of widgets lately, which has meant entering jiggle mode on my devices many times every day. For most of the summer, as I’ve used the iOS and iPadOS 14 betas, I’ve done this in the way I already knew: either tapping and holding an app icon on my Home Screen until jiggle mode was eventually triggered, or more often, long-pressing that app icon just until the context menu appeared, after which I’d hit Edit Home Screen.