Different (randomly changing) Icon sizes in iPad OS14

I’ve since shut-down and restarted the my iPad Pro (not a forced-restart) and the Widget and Home Screen icons have returned to consistent sizing - but for just how long I’ll have to wait and see.

I have noted some memory management issues reminiscent of that experienced mid-life of iPadOS13. Whilst likely to unrelated, since updating to iPadOS14.x, what is really peculiar is a marginal increase in measured RAM capacity from 3998MB to 4001.4MB. I have confirmed this anomaly with an identical iPad of the same model.

Clearly, the iPad can’t have any more [or less] RAM than it started with, so the only logical explanation is that during update something has changed the internal RAM-memory mapping. Go figure!

I just found out this by accident.

I had maybe 3-4 icons on each page that were significantly smaller than the rest. Tried toggling global icon sizes, changing text size, turning off screen auto lighting to no avail.

Then I tried editing the screen - you know - hold your finger on an icon until all the icons on that page have a circled x. This allows you to eliminate or move an icon to another spot. I grabbed one of the small icons and moved it to a different location then back to where I wanted and it magically resized itself to the common size for all icons.

Not sure if it will stick but so far so good.

I fixed mine by doing this:

hold down app icon until all of them start wiggle.

while the small one is wiggling, hold down again until it “ grows” back to size. Do this to each app that needs to grow back to size.

When they grow to correct size, I restarted my phone and that fixed it. * did this a week ago, they have remained the correct size.

Hmmm, a small and a larger format device. Interesting. Report it to Apple: https://www.apple.com/feedback/

Fault personally observed on iPad Pro 10.5”.

That what align with the experience of others. iPadOS 14.0.1. included explicit fix for this issue.

Curious...

I recommend trying a forced-restart.

Whilst an entirely different issue, subsequent to updating to iPadOS 14.0.1, I needed two additional forced-restarts to clear a Cellular issue.

This problem is so annoying and I restart my iPad two or three times to repair this issue each time it happens. I request Apple to please try fixing this bug. I have iPad 5th Generation ( iPad 2017 )