Icon size shrunk

After updating iPad4 mini to ios15, I now have 20 app icons filling half a page. Before update, those 20 icons filled a full page. That means they are half the size and therefore twice as difficult to comprehend! How ridiculous! Come on apple, back to the original layout please. Who wants forty icons on a mini4 page 😡? Reply?

totallyfrustrated1214 wrote:

Switching to “large icons” makes ABSOLUTELY NO DIFFERENCE! Is is supposed to do 30 icons a page when small and 20 when large, but after selecting large there are STILL 30 ICONS PER PAGE! I have tried rebooting the device and is makes NO difference. Why does Apple try to “fix” things THAT ARE NOT BROKEN??

Only Apple would know why they have made changes. You can let them know your thoughts on the matter here:

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I did the latest update and, as mentioned above, the icons shrunk. My settings are large icons, but in reality they are the small ones from before the update.

Hard to see these icons and they are grouped very tightly together. For people with vision issues this is a disaster! Not a smart move by Apple. Please fix this!!!

After downloading iOS 15.1 my app icons on my iPad have shrunk and there’s no way to get them larger. I’ve already chosen large app icons in the Settings. Please put them back to the size they used to be or offer extra large or extra extra large! I have the apps I need on the first page and those I rarely use on the following pages. Theses new app icons are the size of my iPhone icons. Too small and frankly ridiculous!

Why isn't the zoom feature a solution for you, exactly?

The Zoom feature works just fine and dandy for most of my visual needs and it is always available, when needed.

What was/is, exactly, the problems with using the Zoon feature for you or anyone else here, for that matter?

No relevent or cognizant Apple employees read nor partcipate in these, largely Apple user to user technical support communities.

Everyone here who posts with complaints, here, are just complaining/comiserating amongst other fellow users.

You need to send unacknowledged feedback to Apple's feedback site.

You can send as much feedback as you like as many times as you like.

Someone from Apple DOES disseminate all feedback generated from the product feedback location, but NO ONE gets any individual responses from Apple.

This is a one-way, user feedback location.

This is where you voice your Apple product reviews/issues/concerns.

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Good Luck!

The feedback pages are NOT actual Apple support.

These are just Apple product user feedback pages.

You will get NO actual Apple support from these user feedback pages.

You are free and welcome to submit as much feedback, as you like, about any Apple product issue to Apple's user feedback pages.

This is only one of the few ways to directly contact Apple about ANY product issues.

Cognizant Apple employees read ALL feedback generated from all of the various feedback pages and transfers the data to the proper and responsible Apple teams and personnel, but NO Apple employees will ever respond with any type of direct, individual replies from the feedback you post.

The more users that post product feedback about any product issue, the faster Apple, in California, is made aware and starts working on a fix/solution for a future software update.

If no one posts feedback to Apple, Apple will have NO clue that there are any types of issues with their hardware or software products!

Also, I suggest contacting/reaching out to Apple Product support and services.

Tap on the first link below and scroll down some to get to the Apple Product Support section and phone numbers for your location/region.

https://www.apple.com/contact/

OR

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201232

If you need to, if initial 1st tier Apple customer support is of no help to you, you can calmly ask to have this issue escalated up to more responsible, senior level Apple customer support employees to see if they can come up with other possible advice/solutions to this iPad boot loop issue, but I make no guarantees, whatsoever.

If need be, you can have your iPad issues escalated all the way up the chain to Apple engineering level customer phone support.

Even if no acceptable resolution, Apple, AT LEAST, continues to get calls from users with the same or similar product issue/s.

Best of Luck to You!

Ecobric wrote:

Ipad iOS 15.1 update and large icon setting selected as everyone else. Icon size ridiculous.

Apple, you should know better to comprehensively test your software before rolling out.

User experience, has been impacted. A prompt fix is due.

Apple does not read this user-to-user forum for feedback or suggestions. You can, however, let them know your thoughts here:

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imossyfrog wrote:

I'm also really upset at this change. As a visually Impaired person I can no longer see the icons on the home screen and forget about trying to see the titn, tiny fonts. And sick of Apple's patent response on this, which is given all the time! Go to setting. set to large icons...DOES NOTHING AT ALL. Apple use to support the disabled and seniors like non other but now with this "new" ios 15 they have basically made their devices useless for seniors with less than perfect sight and visually impaired. Yes I know I can zoom, Yes I know I can use voice over. But many apps do not work correctly with that and it's really a pain to be having to zoom on everything all the time. When Apple could tell their super eyed programers to ease up on us who don't have great eye's. And allow however many icons per page WE WANT with size adjusting accordingly. I'm about to dump Apple just for this. Bought their new mini and it's useless after upgrading to 15. Now a $800 useless toy.

Have you told Apple this?

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Update to my previous post:

So i’ve been playing around with the ios15 for 2 days (i had ios14 previously). My thoughts:

SIZE

• The Zoom feature under Accessibility isnt a very good option for me, moving around with the magnifier glass is pretty tedious, and not easy if you use your iPad as a laptop sometimes. But try it and see for yourself.
• There is also another feature under Display and Brightness > Display Zoom at the very bottom > Zoomed. This one looks really bad quality wise. It’s like going from a Retina Display to 1st gen screens. But try it for yourself, maybe you will like it. Try to make Text smaller also if you go this route because text also gets bigger.
• I’ve also played around with making text larger, bolder etc. Under Accessibility and/or Display & Brightness, but icons don’t really change, and it felts weird to the eyes. Again try it and see for yourself.

So all in all, i couldn’t find a proper good solution (for myself) but everyone is different so maybe if any of the above can help, try them all and see for yourself.

But i found something else that might help a little bit. Not for the size, but for the overall clunkiness:

CLUNKINESS

I realized coming from ios14, the icons didn’t only shrunk in size but they were also really “packed”. There isnt much space between rows like before. Also they change layout/place when you turn the iPad from landscape to portrait. Landscape you get 6 icons and 5 rows, and in portrait the icons move and you get 5 icons and 6 rows. Which moves all the icons around, very annoying for people who like to arrange their icons a specific way to access them faster. This wasn't a problem under ios14, the layout and apps always stayed the same no matter if you where in landscape or portrait. This makes me believe that this ios15 wasnt properly optimized for iPads unfortunately...

• So a solution to help with the clunkiness is to put a widget somewhere on the screen. The icons then space out, similarly to ios14, and i can tell you it feels much better! I cant care less about widgets to be honest, but they do help spacing out the icons and its all I care. (This removes a whole row actually, by adding a widget you get: 4 rows of apps instead of 5. *I added the calendar widget: day + monthly preview, which is the bigger one*.) It’s not a fix for the icon size unfortunately, but it helps make life easier trying to use them. Put a widget in every tab if necessary (that’s what i did, it helped a little bit with the packed and clunky shrunk icons, and it’s way easier for me to use my iPad now. It’s not perfection, but it’s bit better than before).

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On iPadOS 15, Apple redesigned the Home Screen for iPad.

To make apps bigger, select Settings-> Home Screen & Dock -> Use Large App Icons.

I’m using an iPad Pro with iOS 15.1.1 and I can see the icons just fine.. and I wear glasses because my eyesight is horrible. I think some of you folks need to stop complaining and go see your optometrist. Apple would be doing a serious disservice to society if they changed things back just to pander to your bad eyesight.

I have an older iPad mini and the last east update is 15.1, there is no 15.1.1 that I see, so it could be that a iPad Pro sees the update differently or that Apple should fix this. They allow you to change the font size, the view on just about everything except the icons.

I normally have large icons as find smaller ones difficult to see. The new update has reduced the size of the icons. I have checked my settings and I still have large icons selected. Please can you tell me how to fix this so that I can see the icons at the size they used to be. Like I said I have already selected large icons.

could apple please let customers know if an update will affect the visual side of things before we download it, this is especially important for those with visual impairments

Dear iPadOS 15 Updaters,

Take a look at the original post: I got my old iPadOS 14 bigger app and folder icon Home Screen back again … just posted a few minutes ago, for mention of a solution to all our problems.

Yours helpfully,

Jock MacAdam

Fix in Response does not work. I’ve restarted my iPad. I’ve tried again. Restarted again. Tried another day. Restarted again Tried another week. Restarted again. It doesn’t work. Very frustrating. It’s also something that happened In the past with an update so I’d think it would be something that would be watched for.

So now what? Live with it because I’ve no other choice??????