APPS moving out of folders into the APP library

I have my Home Screen organized to my satisfaction. I have subsequent screens populated with folders with related APPs stored in them. Every so often the order of icons on my home screen or within folders changes.

it changes because a random APP, in frequent use, has suddenly migrated to the APP LIBRARY.

How fo I stop this? I already have new APPs NOT landing in the APP Library.

why are frequently used APPs moving there?

iPhone 11 Pro Max, iOS 15

Posted on Nov 30, 2021 12:57 AM

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Nov 30, 2021 1:42 AM in response to Alex Neil

It won't move automatically, never.

The following circumstances may affect the move as described by you. If you had...

  1. Removed the app from Home Screen accidentally
  2. You or someone had changed: Settings > General > Transfer & Reset iPhone > Reset > Reset Home Screen Layout
  3. Your Kid and another kid: Enable  Guided Access before handing over an iPhone to kids
  4. Shared Apple IDs
  5. If you had shared sensitive information pertaining to your device and/or payment methods


Nov 30, 2021 11:29 AM in response to SravanKrA

Hello SravanKrA

i hear you.

But, it’s typically just one APP on the Home Screen. There I will grant you a misplaced thumb etc.

But my page two has 22 folders. Most of which are multipage.

Yesterday (for example) several folders had lost APPs to the APP Library. It becomes very obvious when they are either regularly used and no longer in the folder. Or when the contents of the folder have shifted over out of place.

No one uses my iPhone 11 Pro Max 512GB except me.

My career from 1972-2010 was entirely in Information Technology. IBM Big Iron, through PCs, Workstations, Notebooks, Tablets, and into handheld devices.

I could most assuredly be wrong. But as of yet I don’t see how.

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