All icons are now smaller and thus more difficult to tap. They are slightly but noticable smaller. Throughout all history of iPhone, the icons have had certain dimensions. Now, Apple for some reason decided to ruin this. Just as everything else, bit by bit. But, does anyone know how to return the normal size, which has been throughout all older iOS-s?
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iPhone SE, iOS 14
You must have amazingly sensitive eyes to size differences. The apps were reduced in size by 1/64 of an inch. That's an incredibly small number.
You have two choices however. Forget about it as this is now the new normal for icon sizes and you can't enlarge them by 1/64".
OR, use Zoomed View - Settings > Display and Brightness and scan down to the bottom and change the view to Zoomed from Standard.
Other than that there is nothing you can do about this except get used to a very small difference.
I'm not asking for a solution now
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The homescreen is definitely different in ios 14.4. First pic is before 14.4 second is with 14.4, pay particular attention to the bottom portion of the screen.
OK, perhaps you see something I don’t see. Or perhaps it affects your model iPhone and not mine.
I have not read about this in any iOS 14 writeup, and I’ve read many writeups. As I said, varying size Home Screen icons may appear because widgets may now appear on the Home Screen. Certainly some of those widgets may be quite large. The “Organize your Home Screen ...” article above provides more details.
I am just saying, the new ios 14 has smaller icons. Significantly smaller, on iPhone SE.
If you still don't believe this ugly truth, you can check for yourself here:
The icons are smaller to make room for the home page selector at the bottom of the screen. Hold your finger on the row of dots and you can speed-select any home screen page. And it excludes the App Library page. You have a good eye if you can see the difference; they are each 1/64” smaller.
THANK YOU!!! My post almost got deleted because of all the verbal exchanges I had with some of other people :) yes, the 1/64 of an inch, actually is almost half of millimetre (more precisely 0.4 of millimetre)! Now, half of millimetre, in terms of dimensions of a building or a car, might be insignificant, but, really, come on? In terms of iPhone SE or iPhone 6 real estate is a HUGE DIFFERENCE INDEED! This is by far the worst thing Apple ever did, in my opinion.
I have to agree. Whoever says it's an insignificant difference, it buggers me big time. It will take a lot of time to get used to this especially that the change was made to waste space.
It would be fantastic if this page selector was optional. It would be the first thing i would turn off on all devices. To me it is a useless feature.
A nice thought but Negative, doesn’t fix it.
I think I’d be speaking for a few of us when I say Display Zoom was the first thing I checked hoping the nightmare was simply caused by iOS reverting the Display Zoom option to ‘Standard View’ as a byproduct of the iOS 14 update process. It didn’t revert at all.
Following the update, Display Zoom remained at the same setting of ‘Zoomed’ which was previously applied in iOS 13. And even at ‘Zoomed’ in iOS 14, the Icon size is still visibly reduced.
Nope, occurs on iPhone SE 2nd Gen also. All models are affected, I’ve enquired with a collective of peers with different handsets since they updated their OS. The verdict; they’re all affected and all are seething.
WOW......You people who are SEETHING, must have so little going in your lives to let something so utterly trivial as 1/64th of an inch upset your lives so much. How sad for you all that this extremely minor change has upset you so. One could only wonder what a Covid diagnosis or a car accident or your house being consumed by flames or your house being flooded by a hurricane would do to your psyche as so many other's have experienced lately.
In the scheme of life altering things, is this really that SIGNIFICANT to you?
Here is the same home screen on both iOS 13.7 and 14.
I cut a hole through the top Colour image to show the image in B&W below. There is no difference in the icon size, only in the icon design itself.
Colour is iOS 14, B&W is iOS 13.7
"But, since there was not change, it doesn't matter. "
The fact that you don't see a change, or that you don't think it is significant, or that is doesn't matter to you, doesn't help those of us that do see a change. And to us, it matters.
Take two seconds and look at the side by side comparisons posted by Matesosh earlier in the conversation. I realize that it is not a huge change. But the change has happened, whether you believe it or not...or whether you can see it or not. And to someone with diminished sight capabilities, it is a big deal.
that you don't see a change, or that you don't think it is significant, or that is doesn't matter to you, doesn't help those of us that do see a change. And to us, it matters. it is a big deal.
Fair enough.
Nobody here can change this. Nobody here can explain why the changes were made.
The terms of this community are documented and clear. Discussing Apple Policy is not permitted.
Feedback for Apple goes here >>> http://www.apple.com/feedback/ is all we can offer.
The top answer isn't helpful or insightful. The size has changed with the most recent update. There is nothing that can be done about the icon size in normal view once you upgrade to iOS 14. As previous users have mentioned, if a person is comfortable with larger icons and text in general, they can go to "Settings," "Display & Brightness," then "View" to select the zoomed view.
Partially blind people may want to use a zoomed view, but someone with tremors or large hands might prefer the normal view, as their sight isn't limited. It would not be challenging for Apple to implement a setting for icon size in the future, so it's a good idea to send in feedback suggesting such an update.
sberman wrote:
IdrisSeabright wrote:
Can you be more specific about where you're seeing that option?
I can answer that. That option appears only on iPads!
Ah! Thanks. I haven't updated my iPad yet. I keep forgetting.
Resize smaller app icons in iOS 14
