Bug: Home Screen widgets changing after iOS 16.1 update

My Home Screen icons keep getting deleted or randomized. Just now I was looking at the Home Screen, everything fine, then I went into settings>Reminders and looked around for a second, and whenever I went back to the Home Screen it had completely deleted the entire first page, and copied pages 3 & 4, giving me duplicates. One of the screens it copied was an older configuration I had set myself, which was weird. This is annoying. I spent an hour the other day seeing everything up how I wanted.

Posted on Nov 5, 2022 9:31 AM

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Nov 7, 2022 10:20 AM in response to Delliejonut

Hello Delliejonut,


Welcome to Apple Support Communities!

We want to help you get the most from your iPhone and Home Screen.


It sounds like the pages might have been hidden, detailed here:

"Find, hide, and remove pages on your Home Screen

With iOS 14 and later, you can hide pages to streamline how your Home Screen looks and add them back whenever you want. Here's how to hide a page:

iPhone showing how to hide a page on Home Screen. 

  1. Touch and hold an empty area on your Home Screen.
  2. Tap the dots near the bottom of your screen.
  3. Tap the circle under the page that you want to hide.
  4. Tap Done. 

To unhide a page, repeat the steps above. Then use the App Library to quickly find apps hidden on different pages.

To remove pages from your Home Screen:

  1. Touch and hold an empty area on your Home Screen.
  2. Tap the dots near the bottom of your screen.
  3. Tap the circle under the page that you want to hide.
  4. Tap the Remove button , then tap Remove. 

When you remove a page from your Home Screen, the apps will still appear in the App Library."


This Apple Support page has the full details: Organize the Home Screen and App Library on your iPhone - Apple Support


Or if a software issue caused what you were seeing, try a normal restart of your iPhone next.

We hope this helps. We want to make sure the iOS is working as expected for you.

Cheers!


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Bug: Home Screen widgets changing after iOS 16.1 update

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