Settings Icon Missing

I HAVE THE SAME PROBLEM WITH IPHONE 6S, SETTINGS....CALENDAR...PHONE....MESSAGES....All default icons are missing.....

Slide finger down on screen to get Search Screen. Type "setting" into bar and search. Then in the Settings App > General > Reset > Reset Home Screen Layout.

Can you search for setttings, once you have it open, then go to reset, reset home screen layout.

😠pffff...it looks like i'm the second person, half my icons also have dissapeared.I have an ipod touch 4g.After I installed some apps, the settings, appstore, itunes, photos, music, and other icons were missing.I tried to search for the settings icon on search screen but in vain.Now all that I can do with my ipod touch 4g is only using the apps I have downloaded.I'm so desperate with this problem, if only there could be a way to solve this problem.😐

Have you tried resetting your device with iTunes.

Try factory restore. See http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1808

I'm having the exact same issue - iPhone 5S 7.0.4 - an app failed to update properly last night so turned the phone off and on and now the majority of built in Apple apps are missing - including the settings one - I assume you must have resolved this by now? What did you do?

Same thing just happened to me too. I was installing an app and it disappeared. I restarted my iPhone 5S running iOS 7.0.4 and half of my apps were missing including the Settings app. I restored my iPhone using factory restore http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1808 and now I'm back up and running. I then restored from my earlier backup and all is well. I hope this bug gets fixed in the next update. I have been an iPhone user since iPhone 1 and I have NEVER experienced anything like this.

BTW, thanks for the idea Joe_Fo 🙂

Same thing happened to me last night 11/28. I kept trying to open the Facebook app and it kept crashing, so I restarted my iPhone 5s (7.0.4), when the phone restarted I lost a lot of apps, including the Messages, Phone, Settings, Notes, Itunes Apps. I still have the App Store. I restarted several times and nothing has changed.

Performing a hard reset seemed to solve my problem. I held down the Sleep/Wake button and the home button for 50 seconds. The phone took a long time to restart. When it came back, all my apps where there and there are no longer any issues.

I have the same issue. Hardreset did not solve the problem. I'm very dissapointed.

A hard resent by holding both the power and home buttons did not solve my problem. However, I was eventually able to access the search feature and get to settings, and restoring the home screen to factory defaults worked to solve my problem, albeit making reassembling my home screen a necessity.

The disappearance was limited to the first and third home screen pages, the second remained normal. It occurred just following an extreme hang/sluggish period on entering airplay with my AppleTV required a soft reset (hold until slider shows up)...upon reboot the home screen pages were missing.

I have the same problem but with an iPhone 4s. I tried to do the factory restore but it didn't work. It seems that the phone doesn't get restored even if i follow the instructions. Is there anything else I can do? Both the settings app and the phone/calling app is gone together with several other apps, so I can't call any support.