Q: Lost bookmarked to homepage icons ios 8

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

ctethompson has found an even faster work-around:

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.

Darn. changing language didn't work for me. Tried English to Japanese - didn't work. As a next step I powered down, then restarted. Still no success so switched back to English. I'll try an accessibility change as suggested in rsaddey's post. Guess if that doesn't work I'll delete and reinstall the affected apps, and will recreate the bookmarks.

Solution (perhaps)

I had the same/similar problem on my iPhone 5 upgrading from iOS 7.x to 8.1.3.

I found that after the upgrade my bookmarks were still in Safari but that my favorites were no longer on the blank start page.  After exploring the bookmarks in Safari iOS 8.1.3 I discovered there are now two (2) Favorite folders. The first Favorite folder has a star on the left the second Favorite folder has a folder icon beside it.

The first Favorite folder (with star) is empty. The second Favorite folder has the bookmarks I used to see on my start page in Safari.

My solution was to view the bookmarks in my old Favorite folder, Edit, select the bookmark and change the location to the new (star) Favorite folder. You must repeat this for every folder and bookmark that you want to move from one to the other Favorite folder. Once this is completed the bookmarks, and folders, will be on the Safari start page.

The bookmarks are still on the start page after restarting my phone.  Please tell me if this helps with your problems as well.

Regards,

Petar

The problem appears to have been fixed with iOS 8.2 for good

Still broken in 8.2 for me.  iPhone 5S

restart. Icons go blank. Switch language and they return

You are perfectly right - I mistook the upgrade installation for a cold boot.

Whenever the device is powered cycled, the problem crops up again.

Nothing has changed here with iOS 8.2

Brilliant!!! My ipad just randomly reset itself and the icons were white with geometric lines.  I changed the language to English (Australian) - not game for Japanese, and afterwards everything was back to normal.

The 'switch language' workaround does indeed fix the issue, worked for me using French/English.

Thanks for this. I've been developping and using multiple HTML5 / javascript 'offline apps' that rely on client-side storage, so option to delete shortcut / recreate from Safari was a bad one since I would have lost the local data storage !

Really helpful !

Brilliant. Thanks for your help. It worked!  I didnt switch to Japanese though, just from English to English (UK) which is what i wanted anyway and much easier to understand!

Updated iphone5 to ios 8.3.1 and lost icons.
Changing language seems to have fixed all.

Obrigada!  I'm having this problem with iOS 8.3 on an iPhone 4S, but switching to Portuguese fixed it for now.

Still helpful on ios 8.3 worked great

Thank you

Brilliant easy fix, thank you! Switched from English to English (UK), no need to switch back again, took less than ten seconds. Phew!

Thank you! Within a few minutes, problem solved. I have an ipad2 and English UK worked fine!