I’ve tried to return the apps to my Home Screen, but the option is gone. I have turned my phone off and then back on. Is this due to a software update for iPhones 15?
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Original Title: apps from the 2nd page of my home screen were sent to the app library on my phone and will not let me restore them to my home s
iPhone 15, iOS 18
No. It's not due to an update.
ALL of your apps are in the App Library.
Go to the App Library. Tap and hold you want to add to the Home Screen until the menu pops up. Tap "Add to Home Screen".
If an entire page of apps suddenly vanished, check your focus settings. It is possible to restrict which Home Screen pages will appear for specific focus selections.
No. It's not due to an update.
ALL of your apps are in the App Library.
Go to the App Library. Tap and hold you want to add to the Home Screen until the menu pops up. Tap "Add to Home Screen".
If an entire page of apps suddenly vanished, check your focus settings. It is possible to restrict which Home Screen pages will appear for specific focus selections.
As I said, nothing "suddenly appeared" in your App Library. ALL of the apps you have are in the App Library. ALL of them.
What happens when you long press one of them in the App Library? A menu should pop up. If it is not already on the Home Screen , you should see an option to add it to the Home Screen.
If you don't, change the active focus or turn the active focus off and check to see if you see it now.
Have you checked to make sure that you are not hiding a home screen? If you press and hold on one of your home screens until the icons begin to "wiggle". Go down to just above the dock area, where the bottom row of icons is. You should see a series of dots, as shown in the first screenshot I've provided. Tap on that group of dots. The screen should change like the second screenshot that I provided. When you look at that screen, you will see an image of all your home screens with a checkmark below them. If there is no checkmark, that screen is hidden. Tap on it and the checkmark should appear, then tap Done in the upper right corner. If there was no checkmark, after checking it, that screen will appear again.
As far as what KiltedTim was saying about what were you seeing, if you hold an icon in the App Library, if it is not on a home screen, it would appear as what you see in this last screenshot. You can see the entry in the menu to add it to the home screen.
Never mind. I will continue to access the apps that were moved from the second page of my Home Screen to my App Library and are not allowing me to move them back to the Home Screen from the App Library. Thank you 🙏
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That fixed it! Thank you! Why would my phone randomly hide one of the pages of apps on my Home Screen?
This is what I was seeing when I attempted to move the apps from the hidden page in the App Library back to the Home Screen:
Where is the focus setting?
The apps that were moved from my Home Screen to the App Library do not give the option to “add to the Home Screen.”
Settings>Focus.
That hasn’t been touched, so that wouldn’t explain why this happened. Nor does it explain why I can’t move apps back to the Home Screen that suddenly appeared in my App Library.
That setting has not been touched, so that wouldn’t be the reason this happened and it doesn’t explain why I can’t return the apps in my App Library back to the Home Screen.
I just turned focus off and deleted it in my settings and I still do not get an option to move apps from my library to my Home Screen.
What do you get?
You're not giving us any actual information to work with here...
K. Good luck with that.
Unable to restore apps from App Library to Home Screen
