Unable to rearrange app icons in ios 13

I have EXACTLY the same problem. It is driving me mad. I have done a full restore of my iphone. Updated to iOS 13.1 today. I have switched off the Zoom function as suggested above. Nothing works. I am unable to re-arrange apps. It works fine on my wife's phone (same model iPhone 8), and on my daughter's (iPhone 6s). But not mine - this is not a user error, it is an iOS 13 bug.

DonCSyd wrote:

I have EXACTLY the same problem. It is driving me mad. I have done a full restore of my iphone. Updated to iOS 13.1 today. I have switched off the Zoom function as suggested above. Nothing works. I am unable to re-arrange apps. It works fine on my wife's phone (same model iPhone 8), and on my daughter's (iPhone 6s). But not mine - this is not a user error, it is an iOS 13 bug.

Thank you for your post. I was waiting to hear from someone who did a clean install of iOS to see if it's related to an upgrade over an existing version. sorry to hear you couldn't resolve this. Be sure to report this to Apple, if you haven't already.

Wow, that is amazing, but true! Turning off Zoom fixed it for me too. I use Zoom all the time, but now I know that I can just turn it off temporarily when I need to rearrange icons.

Note that this is just as broken in iOS 13.1.

Issue solved after the zoom feature is disabled. THANK you very much.

But, i do need to use "zoom" feature with my aged eyes. i updated to ios 13.1 and it is not fixed. Hope Apple will fix the issue soon.

Thank you. Disabling zoom function entirely fixed the issue!

It is still a major bug since I hadn’t *used* zoom while having problems with re-arranging apps. It was just switched on as an option, which should not interfere with a different iOS function!

Paul, thank you so much. I spent a half an hour with an iPad mini chasing around an icon with no success. I'm legally blind and usually have the zoom feature enabled. Once I turned it off I was able to shuffle my app icons and folders around as I previously did

This was driving me crazy for three days (installing update coincided with having a OEM screen replacement but advised not related to new screen but was starting to doubt this!) but disabling the zoom worked for me too, so thanks!

Awesome fix - thank you, (I just have to remember to take AN EXTRA STEP EVERY TIME TO DO A SIMPLE THING THAT USED TO WORK FLAWLESSLY ON MY 4-YEAR OLD $1000 iPHONE) — this is a sad bug for Apple to correct, and IMO the new icon arrange method is a UX downgrade

This was driving me absolutely CRAZY as one of my folders dumped about 20 icons out onto my home screen and I could not get them back into a folder. Thank you, Paul!! It took some digging around to try to find a solution but I'm glad I came across your post!

APPLE...are you listening? This is an issue that is going to cause lots of trouble tickets and troubleshooting for you!! Please fix it...ASAP!!

Its still a major bug. I need the zoom function enabled because i need it to use my phone. So this means i would have to disable that function before i rearrange the icons then reenable the function again. What a pain.

apple. Please fix this!

having the exact same issues. This update is very buggy. The swipe to type keyboard doesn’t work either Freezing frequently shen switching apps. Apps close unexpectedly. Slow start Siri is non responsive. and

I wouldn’t consider this problem solved. I want the zoom feature enabled. Now every time I need to rearrange my icons I have to disable zoom, rearrange my icons, and then reenable zoom. I would call that a hack, not a solution.

I would call this a workaround, not a solution. The problem continues in iOS 13.1.1.

I’m legally blind and I use the zoom controller all the time so it’s a pain in the butt to have to turn it off every time I want to move some icons or folders on my devices. I have over 300 apps

I did call Apple the day I upgraded to 13.1 and gave them a list of problems this one being one on a rather longest list of bugs.

Thank you for the solution.

It’s annoying that I’ll have to go in EACH TIME and turn it off to rearrange and then GO BACK and turn it back on. I use the zoom feature often. Very inconvenient. Apple needs to fix this.

Unfortunately this fix did not work for me.

I seem to be the only one. I am running IOS 13.1 on an iPad mini and do not have Zoom enabled (nor did I). Have tried turning Zoom on and off in case that somehow creates and then removes the issue but made no difference. Have shut down and re-booted the device and also done a soft reset. I can see the re-arrange apps option when I press on an app but selecting this option does nothing. The apps do not start to jiggle. I can move them to a new location by dragging but as soon as I release my finger the app flies back to where it was before. Have no restrictions turned on.

Anyone else having issues with iPad minis running 13.1????