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[MERGED] App Store update icons blank/missing
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Just noticed this but app icons aren't showing up on my 6s running 9.0.1. It seems to only happen to the stock apple apps, but not all of them which is weird.
I would hate to restore again since my sync is just about done and takes hours because of how many songs and apps I have. Thanks for any help.
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I would hate to restore again since my sync is just about done and takes hours because of how many songs and apps I have. Thanks for any help.
Glad you got it resolved. Unfortunately, restarting hasn't worked for me. I tried a restore, but the issue persists.
It doesn't sound like this is a very widespread issue. I posted the topic on Apple's discussion board can no one else has reported similar issues.
I'm having the exact same issue. iPhone 6S - iOS 9.0.1. As indicated, appears to only happen to the built-in 1st party Apple Apps. Biggest offenders are Mail, App Store, Settings, maybe a few others.
I initially did a Home Screen Reset. That fixed it. But then the problem returned. Restarted the phone and the problem went away, but now a few days it has come back again.
I initially did a Home Screen Reset. That fixed it. But then the problem returned. Restarted the phone and the problem went away, but now a few days it has come back again.
I reset all settings on the phone and all was good until I had to turn off and on the phone again. Problem restarted immediately. Anyone have any ideas?
I've of course tried the hard reset (holding down power and home button) and it's not helping. Is there anywhere else in the settings that I could reset the index? The suggesting that iOS needs to re-index the icons makes perfect sense. It's just not happening. Also, force quiting and restarting the apps does not help.
There's no such option in iOS as this problem is not supposed to happen.
It may be due to an iOS bug specific to this version, although as it does not concern everyone, it doesn't look much plausible.
You may just ignore this unaesthetic stuff for the moment. Normally, restarting the iPhone would automatically reset things up.
It's just like taking a good coffee after a very short night.
As mariusignorello mentioned it, the re-indexing would be okay after a restart.
Still having this problem. Nothing seems to fix it. Looks like depending on a restart of the phone, only certain icons will fall into the blank icon set and those icons will persist to be the blank icons in the app switcher, regardless of me force-quitting those apps, until I restart again, and then it's a different set of app icons that are blank.
Thanks. Yeah I noticed yesterday, after my post, that if I close out all the Apple apps in the app switcher prior to turning the phone off and then back on; seems to fix the issue. But I believe the fix is temporary, i.e. until the next restart, correct me if I'm wrong.
I wonder where the problem lies. Is it with the files on the phone, if so, I'm guessing it's in the backup too. Is it somehow in the iCloud account? Unlikely, but you never know.
Fairly certain that while it's been happening for a number of months, it has maybe been about half a year at best, if even that (given that it only showed up around iOS 8.4 and maybe maybe 8.3).
That said, it seems that "should be fixed" was said not in a form of a statement implying that it's fixed, but more of in a commanding form as in it's something that Apple should fix.
It's only started happening to me since yesterday. So it's not something that "has" been around for everyone for six months. No doubt some have seen this happen to them for a long time, but it's only been one day on any of my devices.
Definitely an App Store server thing and not an iOS thing.
Definitely an App Store server thing and not an iOS thing.