Lost bookmarked to homepage icons ios 8

So glad to finally find others who have this problem! I just downloaded iOS 8 and thought everything was fine until the iOS 7 homepage didn't work. I then updated to the iOS 8 homepage only to have the "radar" icons. I will try the language trick! Thanks!

... and unbelievably, the bug is still there in IOS 8.1! Come on Apple - you are better than this!

I also had the icon problems on my IPad 2 from ios 8. Hoping that 8.0.1, 8.02 and finally 8.1 would fix it but no !! Overnight 8.1 again 50% reverted to "targets". I used the English to English trick mentioned earlier and they have come back. Thanks everyone .

I'm not holding my breath as it is likely to revert back.

Also Safari locks up or is very tardy in it's response.

Come on Apple

Same issues for me. Every time I shut down and restart they're all gone. Did the English to English swap and all good!! Thanks for the tip!

Formidable! Cela marche aussi en français! Merci elhombrerealto, you saved me from the tedium of changing these icons over and over again back to their original state. Hey, Apple do you copy or are you just ignoring us? I liked you better way back in 1984 when you were the new underdog on the block with your funny little beige box and postage-stamp sized b&w screen called Macintosh. You listened to us then and we "evangelized" for you in return. Now, YOU are Big Brother, you've become too rich, too arrogant and too complacent to pay attention to the rest of us....

A more simple method is to swich to bold text and then back to normal text in - general - accessibility section of settings.

Your phone will do a partial restart but only takes a few seconds.

This causes the system to do a screen refresh similar to the language change method but a lot quicker.

Hope this helps.

I Was skeptical, but it WORKED !!! Thanks for the quick and easy fix

Not silly at all to switch iPhones's language and then bring it back to english.!!! this worked..!! Thanks.

If one must switch from standard US English to another language, the monolinguists among us can simply switch to UK or Australian English. 97% should be able to find their way back to their mother tongue.

the language change worked for my ipad2 although I recommend a screenshot to make it easier to remember how to change it back to English, Thanks for the help!

When I updated my iPad earlier this month (November 2014) I didn't lose icons, but I did lose ALL of the items on my lengthy reading list - and ALL of my bookmarked sites. I searched the Internet for ideas on how to retrieve them and found a LOT of people had the same thing happen to them. I keep looking and hoping but I'm afraid I'm going to have to rebuild them. Just a thought, but do you think it would do any good to send Apple a bill for our time doing the rebuildS? I hear they have a few dollars in their kitty. Maybe they would be more careful writing upgrades! HA!

(Apologies that my post didn't add any helpful information to your dilemma, but I think it's curious that people have lost all sorts of data - and different types of data. Could it have something to do with WHEN we updated? (Ok, go ahead and chuckle over that one - you can probably tell I'm no techie! Just an extremely frustrated user). No more bookmarked site list, no more reading list, but a big ol' gray panel that covers 1/3 of my screen in landscape view! THANK YOU, APPLE!

Same thing here. I just changed languages from English to French ; the icons didn't return for me. So changed back to English. Surely there's an Apple geek out there who can help with this BUG.

elhombrealto you are a magician!

Even those icons, whose sources are no longer available (or are temporarilly unavailable as they require a VPN to be accessed) have been restored immediatlely and persist after having reverted to the prior language!

Thanks a lot,

Reiner

What might have caused the problem to appear:

I recently switched on passcode (due to sensitive remote desktop logins). Now, each time the iPad is power-cycled, icons are lost...

Thank you. Switched from English uk to English and back again and problem solved. How strange.