Icon size shrunk

It’s not an eyesight issue. It is a use and functionality issue. iPad min8 vs pro is a very different screen. The icons have been substantially reduced in size. Along with that the locations on the screen change because more icons are on a row. so my folders are no longer in the same location.

I wear eyeglasses and my eyesight is horrible and I have a hard time with the icons.

Apple wouldn’t be pandering by fixing a problem they created. My dad with macular degeneration is severely affected by these unadvertised changes.

You are lucky your eyesight is as good as it is.

I did the 15.2.1 update. The icons are back to normal size, BUT what they’ve done is something to background so you can crowd more icons in the vertical aspect of the tablet. If you turn the tablet to horizontal…. It looks like what the old Vertical aspect used to….

Hummm . . . That’s odd. Mine hasn’t changed vertically or horizontally. I checked to see what version of iOS and it’s the latest 15.2.1. Even if they did come back horizontally, I never use my iPad on the horizontal so it wouldn’t be of much use to me.

I toggled on and off several times the “Use Large App Icons under Settings> Home Screen & Dock. I “unchecked” the “ Shoe App Library in Dock” and removed the extra icon folder they put onto my “Dock” at the bottom of my iPad. I turned off my iPad and turned it back on a couple times. Seemed to increase the icon size, but like I said they seemed to have stretched the screen.to accommodate more icons. I think the icons did shrink a little as I recall you could only put 4 side by side in the vertical view…now you can put 5.

I too wish they would leave things alone, or at lease give is a slider to increase icon sizes to what best suits the customer….like they do with the text size slider.

I notice on my iPhone, under SETTINGS> DISPLAY & BRIGHTNESS, at the very bottom, they have “DISPLAY ZOOM”, which makes your screen zoom larger INCLUDING the icons. Unfortunately They don’t have that feature on the IPad.

Not helpful for my ipad. The icons are annoyingly smaller after the latest update, even at the "Use Large App Icons" Why did apple do this - change for the sake of it?

Please add more options - regular, large or extra large.

Reluctant to update my iphone as the problem will be even worse.

When are Apple going to respond to this thread?

I’m purposely delaying the update on my other iPad as don’t want the reduced size icons. The information posted earlier was already on my iPad and still is yet the icons have still shrunk

FYI in addition to shrinking the IPAD ICONS to accommodate 5 icons across instead of 4, THEY ALSO REMOVED the option to allow for “MORE OR BIGGER ICONS” under SETTINGS > HOME SCREEN & DISPLAY. The “ BIGGER” selection zoomed the screen making the icons larger as well. Like the IPhone’s “DISPLAY ZOOM” option does.

Apple also won’t allow you to revert BACK to 15.1.1 either, so once you update your iPad, you’re stuck ACTUALLY HAVING TO USE A MAGNIFYING GLASS to identify the icons you grouped together into a single folder. I have macular degeneration… where your center vision fades and you’re left with peripheral vision. It’s KEY FOR DISABLED PERSONS TO HAVE THE AN OPTION TO INCREASE THE SIZE OF PRINT OR OBJECTS LIKE ICONS.

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Oh no… i have done the same mistake by updating to ios 15 from 14. The worse thing is that i knew about that and avoided updating the ios like a plague. But unfortunately today for some reason i forgot and just hit that button…. I have to say, its worse than i thought, I absolutely hate it… i cant see anything. Im really disappointed because i know Apple will not fix it. As usual they will say: “deal with it”. And its not something that i can get used to it with time, i can’t see easily, the icons are so packed together, it feels terrible. :(

So disappointed in myself…

I’m wondering if anyone, here, who has complained about the shrunken icons has actually called Apple to see what they’re doing about it? It seems like just posting complaints doesn’t get us too far. We’ve had another update since this one and still the icons are too small.

I think I’m going to try calling. Anyone else?

Why is everyone who is complaining about this icon issue with iPadOS 15, just use the Zoom feature in Accesibility?

This IS a completely valid workaround, for the time being.

I use the on screen button Zoom controls and they work well enough.

You can, also, access the same controls from the Zoom window button/bar on the lower bar at the bottom middle of the actual Zoom window.

You can make that window any size you need at any magnification needed.

You CAN dismiss the Zoom feature/window any time it is not needed.

This is a very flexible feature and it works!

I have a iPad Pro and use this feature a lot, now, since I am getting older and my eyesight is getting worse.

Everyone who dismisses this Zoom feature thinks that this is an all or nothing feature.

The Zoom feature is a very flexible one and a feature that CAN be dismissed at any time.

The ONLY real hassle is finding a good place onscreen for the Zoom feature button controls, so you do not always accidentally hit the Zoom button all the time.

This is a perfectly valid workaround that works.

Hello, I just tried the zoom feature. This is definitely NOT the solution. I called Apple yesterday. They acted as if they’d never heard about the problem. Wanted to troubleshoot my iPad! I explained that it’s not my iPad, it’s their software update that caused this problem and that there are many of us with the same issue. Doesn’t anyone from Apple read these forums? What’s the point if we’re only complaining and no one at Apple is listening! Not even when I go out of my way to make a phone call!

You can easily change the size of the magnifying window to any size you need to accomodate moving around on the iPad’s home screens.

You do not have to stick wth the initial magnifying window size.

There are features/control/pop-up options when you either tap the wider bar, at the bottom center edge of the magnifier window to resize the lens or use the onscreen magnifier controller button to do the same.

A larger window makes it quicker to navigate your iPad's home screens.

In the pop-up control window, there is even an option to set a magnification size using a slider at the very bottom of the pop-up window, that you can freely adjust.

I think you just haven't familiarised yourself enough with this magnifyng/zoom feature to make better and more efficient and better use of it.

I call b.s. on your replies here.

There is absolutely NO WAY to revert back to iPadOS 14.

Apple stopped signing/authenticating any download versions of iPadOS 14 long ago and Apple, since the introduction of iPadOS 15.2 a couple of weeks, ago, stopped signing/authenticating iPadOS 14.8.1.

So, even getting back to this last version of iPadOS 14 has been no longer possible.