Nobody plans the clutter; it accumulates. The fix is one evening with a clear sequence: delete the apps you have not opened in three months, turn off every notification except messages and calls, and move what remains into three folders — Work, Everyday, and Whatever. Ten minutes of decisions, and the home screen goes quiet.
Photos are the deeper cleanup. Delete the screenshots you do not need — most people can remove a thousand in ten minutes — and let the phone back everything up to a cloud you trust. Storage is the silent tax of digital life; paying it once a season keeps the camera fast and the device uncluttered.
Finish with a rule rather than a task: new apps arrive on the second screen, never the first. If an app is not worth moving to the main screen after two weeks, it is not worth keeping. One evening now saves five minutes a day forever — the best return on investment in technology there is.