If you’re missing an app icon on your home screen, be sure to
check your app drawer
to see if the app is still on your phone. If the app is installed and present in the app drawer, you can simply long-tap the icon, and your home screen will appear. Place the icon wherever you want, and you’re good to go.
Why is my app icon not on my home screen?
- 1 Tap and hold any blank space.
- 2 Tap Settings.
- 3 Tap the switch next to Show Apps screen button on Home screen.
- 4 An apps button will appear on your home screen.
What do you do when an app icon disappears?
The easiest way to recover a lost or deleted app icon/widget is
to touch and hold an empty space on your Home screen
. (The Home screen is the menu which pops up when you press the Home button.) This should cause a new menu to pop up with customizable options for your device. Tap Widgets and Apps to bring up a new menu.
How do I get my icons back on my iPhone?
To control reordering the icons on your iPhone, go to the iOS Settings menu (the gear icon located on the home screen), go
to General > Restore
, select Restore Home Screen Layout from the screen that opens and confirm by pressing the Restore Home Screen button at the bottom.
How do I restore an app icon on my home screen?
- 1 Tap and hold any blank space.
- 2 Tap Settings.
- 3 Tap the switch next to Show Apps screen button on Home screen.
- 4 An apps button will appear on your home screen.
How do I find an app that disappeared?
- 1 Tap and hold any blank space.
- 2 Tap Settings.
- 3 Tap the switch next to Show Apps screen button on Home screen.
- 4 An apps button will appear on your home screen.
Why have my icons disappeared on my iPhone?
Go
to Settings > General > iPhone Storage
and locate apps, videos, or other large data hogs, and remove them from the iPhone. … Then reboot the iPhone again by turning it off and back on (or hard reboot again). At this point the icons should be back on the screen as expected.
Why are my apps not showing on my Home screen iPhone?
If the app is still missing,
delete the app and reinstall it from the App Store
. To delete the app (in iOS 11), go to Settings -> General -> iPhone Storage and find the app. Tap the app and on the next screen select Delete App . After the app’s deleted, go back to the App Store and redownload the app again.
If prompted, sign in with your Apple ID. Scroll to Hidden Items, then
click Manage
. Find the app that you want to unhide. Click Unhide, then click Done.
Where did all my Apps go?
Your device may have a
launcher that can set apps to be hidden
. Usually, you bring up the app launcher, then select “Menu” ( or ). From there, you might be able to unhide apps. The options will vary depending on your device or launcher app.
How do I unhide apps on my iPhone home screen?
If prompted, sign in with your Apple ID. Scroll to Hidden Items, then click Manage.
Find the app
that you want to unhide. Click Unhide, then click Done.
- Tap the Apps tray from any Home screen.
- Tap Settings.
- Tap Applications.
- Tap Menu (3 dots) icon > Show system apps.
- If the app is hidden, “Disabled” appears in the field with the app name.
- Tap the desired application.
- Tap ENABLE to show the app.
- Open the App Store and tap the Account button at the top of the screen; it probably has your picture on it.
- Then, tap your name or Apple ID on the next screen.
- Scroll down and tap Hidden Purchases, and you can browse the list for the app you want.
How do I get my icons back?
- Right-click the desktop and click Properties.
- Click the Desktop tab.
- Click Customize desktop.
- Click the General tab, and then click the icons that you want to place on the desktop.
- Click OK.
- From the app drawer, tap the three dots in the upper-right corner of the screen.
- Tap Hide apps.
- The list of apps that are hidden from the app list displays. If this screen is blank or the Hide apps option is missing, no apps are hidden.
