How to change icon sizes on iPad with iOS 15

AS stated previously, report it to Apple. If enough people report it they might change it.

If you add widgets to the screen, it will Change how many apps are there. Would you be able to send a picture to help is figure out what’s going on?

Dear Llepore1954,

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/253494911

Yours helpfully,

Jock

I have the same issue and the page suggested has nothing to do with the size of the icons/buttons on the screen. Not only are they small, but I had an order where I knew where everything was. By reducing the size and increasing to 5 per row, I have to search for apps. This is something that should be adjustable by the user.

Apples notion of a large icon is BS. What I WANT is to be able to decide how many icons to display on each screen….which would be a whole lot LESS than Apple’s ideado.

yet another control that they have taken away. Why oh why must Apple be the arbiter of what is done and how the interface must appear??

OMG I agree - I am sick sick sick about it. it's so small it's ridiculous! It's like having my iphone view on a bigger mini pad. Ther eis 1 inch of space all aound the edge. WHY?????? I did try zoom in accessibility - it didn't help. I am sick over this with my new iPad mini.

NOT helpful. Ipad Air 4, 4 months old. Updated to ios 15 and the ICONS ON THE DESKTOP are ALL smaaler. The calendar and day/time are BIGGER and I cannot shrink those two. You gotta few glitches here, guys, and I am so not the only one irritated.

Thank you MichelPM, this is helpful. I’m experiencing the same problem on my mid-sized iPad after updating to 15.1. Though I suspect the problem isn’t as severe as with minis, even toggling on the “large” icon choice in Settings leaves icons unnecessarily small, with lots of unused Home Screen acreage surrounding the icons. Attaching screen shot. I will use the link in MichelPM’s note to give feedback to Apple, and encourage others to do the same!

Seriously? Your suggestion is not a solution to this outrageous iOS flaw on all sizes of iPads, not just mini. What was Apple thinking? More importantly, how soon will they fix it? These tiny screen icons are unbelievably unreasonable, impossible and maddening.

Thank you Michel. I just did. I also hope I can easily revert back to the last iOS as soon as I have time for another ridiculous hassle. Just finished the latest hassle of removing all my tiny app icons from their carefully organized folders. Now I’ll have to swipe from screen to screen and search through the clutter to access some. Aaarrggh.

If Apple would simply give me the option to use the old 20 icon grid instead of forcing me to use the new 30 icon grid people with vision issues wouldn’t be so outraged. Maybe developers should consult this cohort before “improving” our experience.

Exactly - except options should be standard regardless of sight issues.

As a professional graphic designer, readability is a very basic criteria of good design. Apple now makes the ol’ graphic design term thumbnail now seem ginormous!

I am having this same problem, and this response is unfortunately not helpful because it does not grasp the problem and is providing at best a workaround, but a pointless one. Apple needs to fix the software. Another upgrade is needed that addresses the problem specific to iPad mini. I regret downloading the latest update yesterday, which is 15.1.

This is no longer an iPad Mini issue. I just updated my iPad 8th generation to 15.1 here in the U.S. and my app icons are now so small I can barely read them. In settings, I toggled “Use large app icons.” Still small. I rebooted. No change. Sure, there are only 20 app icons per page but they are all crammed into the top 2/3 of my screen. Bad enough that Apple decided what’s important to me and put it on my Home Screen and I have to remove it, but now I have to hunt for my cheater readers just to read my tablet. Grrrrrrr.

Exactly. But just for the record it never was just an iPad Mini issue. I posted above some time back that it was happening on my iPad Pro from day one of the “upgrade”. But you are right about all else including grrrrrrr.

That + aaarrrggghhhh. Keeping our language clean. They be so disrespectful.