Can't find an app icon? When you want to clean up the desktop of your iPhone, it sometimes happens that one or more icons are deleted by mistake. If you have this type of problem, don't panic. It is possible to restore the default arrangement of icons on the home page of your smartphone..
Reset iPhone home screen
The App Store has no less than 2 million applications. With such an offer, impossible to resist. According to a study, mobile users use an average of 30 applications per month. The biggest consumers of apps can even install 100 software on their device.
Obviously, the iPhone home screen is likely to be overloaded. When the springboard crumbles under the icons, finding an application is like a real obstacle course. Many users prefer to create folders or organize their icons to rearrange the home screen..
There are different tips for storing these icons. Unfortunately, the iOS system still lacks as much flexibility in managing icons. It is for example impossible to leave a blank space between two shortcuts of apps.
But beware, cleaning up your application icons is not without risk. Sometimes, when you want to rearrange the home screen of your iPhone, you mistakenly delete one or more icons. And here is the drama..
Everyone has already accidentally lost an application icon. Every week we receive messages from readers asking to help them. Rest assured it is not inevitable. There are different techniques to find it and put it back on your iPhone desktop.
To start, you will need to make sure that the application is present in your phone memory. In general, the icon automatically disappears when the application is uninstalled. Let's check that this is not the case.
- Go to your iPhone home page
- Place your finger on the middle of the screen and drag it down to the bottom of the screen
- Click on the search field
- Type the name of the application whose icon has disappeared
If the app has been removed from your phone, you will find in the search results a button to go to the App Store and reinstall it. Otherwise Spotlight will tell you the name of the folder where the application shortcut is located. Then simply browse through all your files and put the icon in a more easily accessible area.
Note that the iPhone has a feature to reset the arrangement of icons on the desktop of iOS. Once activated, you will find the original layout of your apps, namely the Apple application icons on the first page, followed then by the App Store app icons arranged in alphabetical order.
- Open iPhone Settings
- Click on General
- Go to the Reset section
- Tap the Reset home screen option
You can then organize the home screen of your iPhone as you wish. Hoping that one day Apple is seriously considering the complete overhaul of the reception desk of its smartphone.
