I have an iPhone 6 running iOS 11. I need to wipe it out and reinstall iOS like it's a new iPhone (not restoring from a backup).
When I've done this in the past, I've taken screenshots of all my screens so I'd know where I had each app & folder laid-out (I spent a lot of time laying-out the apps just the way I like them). After I wiped the iPhone I'd go download all the apps again and lay them out in their folders just like they were before, referencing the old screenshots. I have 4 screens of folders and apps so it's not a trivial exercise. As you can imagine, this took a lot of time.
I'm trying to find a better, faster way to capture where I have every folder, their contents (multiple pages), and every app placed throughout all my screens.
I don't want to jailbreak just to get this ability. Is anyone aware of an app that can do this? I'll even accept a way to connect the iPhone to my MBP and run a script or something on the Mac to get the screenshots. In fact, I'll even take a text representation of the screen/folder/app hierarchy, if necessary.
Best Answer
This is a bit of a stretch but might work.
I have heard that if you plug your iPhone into your Mac and start Quicktime Player there is an option (possibly under the file menu) to capture what is appearing on the screen of the phone.
If that does (still?) work then doing that would allow you to go through the whole iPhone's UI as fast as you like recording everything as you go in one Quicktime movie that you can save on your Mac and pause as needed as a reference to how it was set up before.
Note I haven't tried this myself but it sounds like it should work...