Shortcut to get the "Home" screen of iOS settings

The Settings app of iOS/iPadOS opens to the last settings page you visited each time you open the app.


Some of these pages are buried 3 or more levels deep. The result is having to hit the back button a bunch of times to get to the home/start screen every time. There should be a convenient way to get "home" quicker but the best I've come up with is to manually close Settings and reopen it to reset it.


There doesn't appear to be a way to make a proper Shortcut since the "home screen" doesn't have a proper URL to locate & shortcuts can't be created to close apps. So annoying. Does anyone know a solution other than making a feature request (which I've already done)?


PS: Sorry about all the quotation marks, I'm not sure what to call this area of settings. If there is a proper term I'd be happy to learn it.

Posted on Jan 3, 2026 8:32 PM

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Shortcut to get the "Home" screen of iOS settings

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