iOS 14 widget removed apps from screen

"And it does simply move items to an alternate screen."

Wrong. Confirmed by the fact that every one of those apps included the "Add to Home Screen" option when I long-pressed the icon in the App Library.

You're also wrong about this being trivial. Each app must be added to the home screen individually from the App Library. Doing that over and over, and then rearranging them into folders was time consuming. If your time isn't valuable, then this would be trivial for you. My time is valuable.

This happened to me, too. iOS 14 doesn't move them to another page, it removes them from your home page and to get them back, you have to search for them in the App Library. If they were in folders, you'll have to restore all of them to your home page and recreate the folders.

By the way, if you rearrange your apps and folders, iOS will sometimes fill in the spaces by selecting apps at random, some of which may be take out of folders, to insert. I wouldn't have believed it had I not seen it. I want to downgrade to iOS 13.

Something similar happened to me. Tried adding the large calendar widget to side panel where widgets used to live. Accidentally dragged it to my main home screen and next thing I knew all apps that were in folders or stored solely in my Library were taken out and moved to my home screen as standalone icons. Didn't feel like it was worth restoring from a backup made last night so just reorganized everything. That's happened a few times but not to this extent where I was required to reorganize EVERYTHING on my phone. Seems like this was a bug in the beta periods a couple months ago based on reddit—how has this not been fixed yet?

On your last Home Screen swipe left again to see the App Library. If you select the search at the top and find the app you want, hold it down and it will move back to the Home Screen.

No, you can’t downgrade (and not sure why you would want to over a fairly trivial issue).

And it does simply move items to an alternate screen.

If you haven’t already, try a restart (or even a hard restart).

FIFY

And yet I posted three screen shots demonstrating that it behaves exactly as I described on my iPhone. Obviously, the behavior is not consistent.

Patrick Houlihan wrote:

"And it does simply move items to an alternate screen."

Wrong. Confirmed by the fact that every one of those apps included the "Add to Home Screen" option when I long-pressed the icon in the App Library.

And yet I posted three screen shots demonstrating that it behave exactly as I described.

Quite likely it didn’t remove them, it just moved them to the next alternate. Swipe left on the home screen.