Just purchased a new ipad pro 2017 9.7 inch. I have found a way to enlarge the icons, but not reduce them. Has anyone found a way to do this on the device ...or is there an apple application that offers this capability? The icons seem tooo big!
Any help or advice would be greatly appreciated.
iPad Pro Wi-Fi, iOS 10.3, 9.7 inch 2017
Thanks for the clarification on the zoom feature. As MichelPM pointed out that's the way it's alway's been, 4 rows by 5 rows. You can add 2 apps to the dock for 6 if you like. If you want even more apps per page have you tried making folders ?
Beyond that all I can do is suggest sending Feedback to Apple. All Feedback gets read and logged, you just never know.
I'll be right back with the Feedback link.
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As promised.
Why are you responding to me?
Since none of us here has any control over what Apple does, and since Apple's iOS is a closed system with the basic iOS UI design dictated by Apple, once again basic iOS UI design is what it is.
No developer can change this!
Send feedback to Apple on this.
iPad Feedback
http://www.apple.com/feedback/ipad.html
Apple reads and compiles all feedback, but doesn't reply to any individual feedback!
Good Luck!
The icons are the size the are.
This has never changed and there is no way to make them smaller or get more columns of icons.
It's always been 5 icons across and 4 icons down.
No way to change this.
Sorry.
Enjoy your new iPad!
The ipad pro 9.7 which I just purchased does have the zoom in display and brightness.
I have only had some apple products and am changing from an ipad mini 4...so I can't say that the icons are larger or smaller from those on other devices. All I know is usually, when you can change the text size (larger or smaller) on a device, it also affects the icon size...in this case, I don't see it happening....which is unfortunate, because I like smaller icons and like more of them on one page ...I don't need them so large and there doesn't seem to be a reason, in my opinion, that they have to be that way.
I may be missing some reason for their large size...but...I guess, life isn't perfect ...soooooo I will just have to be flexible and swipe more
You know, I'm sure that was Apple's thought. But they should have thought again, because -- guess what -- there's never been a freakin' 13-inch iPad before!
So, how about we apply the kind of thinking that made Macintosh special, and a technological solution that's been with us since OS 9, and say, "hey, let users set the size of the icons themselves!" Revolutionary.
I did send feedback to Apple, thanks.
I responded to you because your "that's the way it's always been" implies that it's a stupid question to ask whether there's a way to change it now that there's a huge iPad. It also implies that nothing ever changes (the ipad folders were changed from 3x3 to 4x4 in response to the outcry).
I don't know where you got the idea that I was suggesting that an individual developer could affect this; I never said any such thing and this IS the Apple forums, not a developer forum.
For the record, here’s another good point made by a MacWorld reviewer in 2015: “It makes zero sense to me that my 4.7-inch iPhone 6s can have six rows of four icons in portrait mode (aside from the home row), while the 12.9-inch iPad Pro can only have five rows of four icons.”
Couldn’t have said it better myself. http://www.macworld.com/article/3004823/ipad/5-things-i-noticed-in-my-first-hour s-with-the-ipad-pro.html
I thought the zoom in display and brightness was a Pro 12.9" feature only. Are your icons larger then normal ?
It may have the room but the iPhone pictured doesn't have 6 x 4 rows of icons. It has empty space, that's why pull down was invented.
Like I stated before.
It is what it is, until Apple decides to change it up for larger screen iPad models.
No users have any control of what Apple does or doesn't do with their products!
Is there now a way to reduce icon size on ipad pro 2017
