Placing Widgets keeps deleting apps - I need my settings app back!

Hi all - I was re organizing my Home Screen and trying out different widgets, but when I went to place one of the large ones, it deleted many of my apps located in my Home Screen. And I mean DELETED, I look in my App Library and each of them are gone. Even settings, so that when I ask Siri to open the Settings app she says I don’t have an app called settings downloaded. How can I fix this? The internet said to reset my iPhone - but I can’t do that without getting into settings :(

Posted on Sep 15, 2023 7:42 AM

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Mar 21, 2024 8:49 PM in response to Bre_TriRacing

Hi! A similar issue is also happening to me, but not to that extreme. My problem is my home screens with all the widgets I created from the Widgetsmith keep completely disappearing at the most inconvenient times when I need to navigate certain apps. I would have to start all over and recreate these widgets and find apps to match the color code of the widget. Then all of a sudden, the old home screen (s) that disappeared for a while would magically appear again after I made a whole new one, and then I had to take the time to delete either the old one or the new one (I hope this makes sense). I never really had it where it deleted a whole app off like that, and that is crazy. I hope it eventually got fixed, but I hope my experience with this issue validates yours a little more, and hopefully, Apple sees this issue and does something about it as soon as possible. Thank you for sharing your experience.

-Carlee

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