Icon size shrunk

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.

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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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.

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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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.

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!

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.

That’s because there is no solution except for Apple to change it back. Complain to Apple. This forum is not going to help you.

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….

There is currently no way to get your screen on your iPad back to 20 icons once you download 15.2.1. No possible way. No way to increase the icon size back to what it once was. Unless Apple gives IPad users an way to do so in a future update, we’re stuck with what we now have….

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

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

It is definitely NOT.

You will NOT be able to revert back to ANY version of iPadOS 14 OR earlier.

This is NOT nor has ever been possible this late in the cycle of a latest iPadOS version.

Sorry.

OK, Apples own documentation states that when you choose "LARGE ICONS" there should be 20 icon per page and when you choose "SMALL ICONS" there should be 30 per page. However, you can change this setting till the cows come home and it STILL stays at 30 icons per page. That means that the OS is NOT working as designed. I don't think it is too much to ask to give the user the ability to better see the icon and to install an updtae that does NOT completely alter the look and feel of the device. I paid alot for this device so I do not buy the ridiculous "option" that "if I dont like it, switch". I see no reason why the device should not work AS IT IS SUPPOSED TO. also, if you are installing a change like this (changing the size of the icon and the number per page), if you are going to give the used the "option" to set it to large or small, why wouldn't the default setting be to keep the setup "as is" but let the user know that they can opt into small icons if they wish to (instead of automatically switching them WITHOUT notifiying the user).

I have successfully downgraded my iPad pro to os14. I will never update it to 15 unless larger icons come back also turned off auto update. Just go on youtube and search how to downgrade its simple.

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.