Editing Home Screen

campbell263 Said:

"Editing Home Screen: Why won’t my iPhone allow me to edit the Home Screen? I have an iPhone 12 mini and this problem has been happening since I had an iPhone 7+. When I try to hold down the app to move it or add widgets nothing happens. It just says share app. What do I do? Also I do have screen time enabled. But I tried the content restrictions fix."

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Thank you for the screenshot.

Reset the Home Screen Layout:

If widgets are not working as they should or have gone missing somehow, then you need to reset the Home Screen Layout... Go Here: Move and Organize Apps on iPhone - Apple Support. You'd have to add back all the widgets that you can recall being back on there. So, write down what is currently on the Home Screen.

Scroll to: Reset the Home Screen and Apps to their Original Layout

1. Go to: Settings
2. Tap: General
3. Tap: Reset
4. Tap: Reset Home Screen Layout
5. Then... Add the apps back

campbell263 Said:

"Editing Home Screen: Thank you for the response. I just tried this and it didn’t work, but thank you for trying.

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You are welcome.

Restore or Reset your iPhone:

Two other thoughts are: (A)restore from a backup or (B)reset your iPhone to factory settings. Important: Back Up First: Be sure create a back up your iPhone prior to performing an update, that way you have something to restore your iPhone from, should anything go wrong afterwards. 

A. Restore from a Backup:

Did your ever back up your iPhone without this error? If so, you could back up your iPhone, and then restore it from the backup.

or...

B. Reset to Factory Settings:

Go here: What to do Before you Sell, Give Away, or Trade in your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch - Apple Support

It just disappeared.

No, moving apps don't make them disappear.

While moving, an app may have been placed in a 'grouped apps folder'.

Have you lost apps, used App Library to search the app you are looking for, see this Apple article:

Organize the Home Screen and App Library on your iPhone - Apple Support           

If you have find the app, tap & hold on the app, then drag to the Home screen & drop it.

"TAH62 Said:

"How to remove 'get ready for your new iPad: Thank you for the other options, but I have tried doing both those things and they didn’t work. Thank you for trying though. "

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You are welcome.

Lightly Tap Until it Jiggles:

Try not pushing down very lightly, until you see it jiggle.

Restore your iPad to the original iPadOS.

You'd have to have Apple perform that, being that you cannot downgrade the iPadOS yourself. Set up a Genius Bar Appointment at your local Apple Store for this.

Source: The icons on my homescreen won't jiggle - Apple Community

You tap too long on that icon.

Tap shortly and slide right away that icon to another screen,

Then you will also see that other icons start to vibrate / move.

You will then see a minus-sign for all icons.

Tap once on an empty empty area on your screen.

You have 4 'home screen', make sure there is an 'empty' place to drag an app to.

If the 2nd and/or the 3rd 'home screen' is full, drag to the next one.

Tap & hold on Merge Mansion, then swipe to the right.

Then Merge Mansion will appear on a new Home Screen page.

So you have now have 5 Home Screen pages.