There is a bug and glitch for Icon size, widget, and sometimes icon on dock

There is a bug that still appears even now im currently stay on ipados 14 final. The bug was from the last ipados beta 7, ive tried uninstalled my ipad but the result remain the same.. is there any other alternatives to get rid of them??

iPad Air, iPadOS 14

Posted on Sep 17, 2020 8:39 PM

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Sep 18, 2020 9:18 AM in response to anjasputr

Rather than hoping the Apple looks at this thread, you (any of you) should work through Apple Support to resolve your issues and/or to make sure Engineering is aware of the issues.

(Click on "Contact Support" at the upper right corner of this page.)


In addition, you could use Apple's official feedback path to record your issue:

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Sep 17, 2020 11:02 PM in response to anjasputr

OK, I guess I do see it in your screen captures after all.


For whatever it's worth, I don't see the effect on my own iPad, which was also running beta 7 for a while. I wonder what's different about yours.


Do you see a similar effect when Settings > Home Screen & Dock > APP ICONS is set to Bigger? What about switching to Bigger and then back to More?

Sep 17, 2020 11:25 PM in response to anjasputr

I am having exactly the same issue. Apparently random shrinkage of icons. They will restore to normal size in home screen edit mode if you press and hold them. But the problem recurs randomly, or so it seems to me at this point. Not always the same icons but always the same tiny size. This needs fixing of course and it is really hard to believe that such a visible bug could make to general release. I am using a 9.7 IPad Pro about 2+ years old, 128G.

Sep 18, 2020 2:27 AM in response to anjasputr

I can confirm that you’re certainly not alone.


Right from update to the production release of iPadOS14, I have experienced the problem myself - and have noted and replied to multiple reports of this issue within this community. I initially spent many hours with the belief that this was some clever new feature of the OS that I simply couldn’t fathom, searching documentation for an explantation - before concluding that this is one of many functional bugs.


The inconsistent Home Screen App icon sizing also extends to folder icons and the new Widgets. As you swipe between Home Screens - and launch/close Apps, different icons and widgets resize. I’ve also seen a couple of occurrences of a vertically elongated App icon. A forced-restart of the iPad (to resolve other issues) appeared to stabilise the problem - only for the issue to later return.


Sorry, despite many hours of effort, I can’t offer you a lasting workaround.



Sep 18, 2020 12:44 PM in response to markwmsn

Apple has trained me to use Siri, so my iPhone understands me.

Maybe we can train Apple to understand what is going on on its own user forum, so that users do not have to "work through Apple Support".

But to be honest, I cannot believe that Apple is not mining a rich feedback resource such as this forum.

Sep 18, 2020 1:45 AM in response to anjasputr

Yeah, I got the shrunken icons thing immediately after I updated. Once I quickly realised that there wasn't some sophisticated reason for it and it really was "a bug not a feature", I restarted the iPad and that fixed it. It hasn't recurred since. No "final" version of any software has ever been entirely bug-free. I would be expecting a .1 or .0.1 update soon.

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