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Folders disappeared??

I'm having bit headache with the iOS14 update. First problem was that it didn't let me create empty space on the first page. If I moved app away from first page, it would automatically (and seemingly randomly) move another app back to the first page.


But my bigger problem just happened. I was playing with the widget tiles, and I successfully stacked some tiles on the 2x4 shape. Then I thought that I want to use the large-square widgets, and tried stacking them. For one, they refused to stack. It would just always slide the widget to next page. But while trying to stack them, some reason it removed all my app-folders, spreading all the apps across the pages.


Now I have 14 pages of apps (I counted) in random order. Finding any app is pain in the ...


And to make it worse, you can't reorganize apps anymore on iTunes, and I'm on Win10 so I cannot download the Configurator app for Mac. Re-arranging all the apps to folders with 14 pages to scroll through would take ages.


Why the folders disappeared while I was moving the widgets? And is there any easier way to re-create the folders?

Posted on Sep 24, 2020 6:43 PM

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Posted on Sep 26, 2020 7:22 AM

This happened to me last night. Tried to stack a 4x4 widget on another after it was forced to the last page. When I dragged it from the last page back to the first to try to stack it, all of apps were taken out of their folders and scattered randomly across 6 or so pages. There didn’t seem to be any way to revert the changes either.


I spent two hours reorganizing my apps. Not thrilled.


There’s a post about this on the developer forums with multiple people pointing out this exact same bug.


https://developer.apple.com/forums/thread/656888


This needs to be fixed. I ain’t got time for that.

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Sep 26, 2020 7:22 AM in response to tero256

This happened to me last night. Tried to stack a 4x4 widget on another after it was forced to the last page. When I dragged it from the last page back to the first to try to stack it, all of apps were taken out of their folders and scattered randomly across 6 or so pages. There didn’t seem to be any way to revert the changes either.


I spent two hours reorganizing my apps. Not thrilled.


There’s a post about this on the developer forums with multiple people pointing out this exact same bug.


https://developer.apple.com/forums/thread/656888


This needs to be fixed. I ain’t got time for that.

Folders disappeared??

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