Restoring iPhone Apps Icons positions

During this period of multiple iPhone OS3.0 Betas, we need to update iPhone OS almost weekly. But the most annoying outcome is a completely scrambled springboard screens. In my case, I have 110 iPhone Apps, and the iPhone lack of categories and folders, leaves me with the springboard screens as the only way to arrange application icons (without jailbreaking).

It requires at least fifteen minutes after every restore to leave the app icons as they were before the update.

But keeping previous arrangement is actually pretty easy, you only need to restore from your backup twice:

1. Sync and Backup before updating.


2. Update iPhone OS


3. When asked, choose the backup from step 1


4. After the restore finishes (at least 1 hour if you have many apps and music), ^+click (or right-click) your iPhone on the device list and select “Restore from backup...”


5. Choose the backup from step 1, again, and voilá, when it is done (this time is faster), the springboard icons are arranged just as before the update.