Please forgive me if this has already been posted. I need someplace to vent after yesterday’s mishap.
I opened an app and saw that they now added widgets. So I exited the app and immediately went to create a new widget. I chose the one where it was the full width of the screen. I unfortunately created it on the first aka main page and once it added it, it shifted all the apps. This is expected, but I guess it now made it not enough room so the entire last row had to “move” to the next page.
This is where it all went downhill for me. To start with some backstory, I have (or now had) all 350+ apps organized on my phone running iOS 16 and it took up three pages (none of which were full either). The first page is the main page, the second are folders of apps organized by like, and then the third are for games (with some games in folders as well). I definitely was not using up all sixteen pages so I am not sure why what happened, actually happened.
When I added the widget and the last row had to move, it did not just move the last row to the next page and shift everything else. This would have made sense to me.
Instead, it disassembled two of the folders that were in the last row and some of the apps went to the next page as standalone apps (but mixed in) and some weirdly went into other pre-existing folders. I also was searching for both the FaceTime and Settings apps to no avail.
This is where I started to freak out and I deleted the widget immediately and the FaceTime app reappeared. I was still missing the Settings app though - the most important app on the whole phone. In the meantime, I managed to get the gang back together for the two folders that broke up.
I searched for the Settings app, going into every folder. It was not there. So I turned to Google and basically the only thing I could find was to reset my Home Screen. After looking some more, I resorted to this. After I gave the okay, I instantly regretted it as I realized it meant dissembling all of the folders that I created (for some reason I thought it would just put back the main apps).
This is where I got upset since I spent quite some time organizing them to keep my mind sane and anxiety low. But then I noticed that not all of the apps actually were on my home screen that I used. So I realized I was using the maximum number of pages and since it was over that, they did not get put on.
This is when I Googled again and read that you can put back apps from the App Library (something I never use since my apps are organized) and I wish I came here first since I probably would have learned that from here. I could have just added the Settings app back via this way! So now I got even more upset that I got into this for nothing basically.
So I thought okay, I will use this to add back the missing apps. But when I went to add an app back to my home screen, I noticed that from the App Library, it lets you add an app more than once. I thought it would flag you as already being on the screen, but nope. So now I have no clue how to know what I do and do not have.
I opened an app and saw that they now added widgets. So I exited the app and immediately went to create a new widget. I chose the one where it was the full width of the screen. I unfortunately created it on the first aka main page and once it added it, it shifted all the apps. This is expected, but I guess it now made it not enough room so the entire last row had to “move” to the next page.
This is where it all went downhill for me. To start with some backstory, I have (or now had) all 350+ apps organized on my phone running iOS 16 and it took up three pages (none of which were full either). The first page is the main page, the second are folders of apps organized by like, and then the third are for games (with some games in folders as well). I definitely was not using up all sixteen pages so I am not sure why what happened, actually happened.
When I added the widget and the last row had to move, it did not just move the last row to the next page and shift everything else. This would have made sense to me.
Instead, it disassembled two of the folders that were in the last row and some of the apps went to the next page as standalone apps (but mixed in) and some weirdly went into other pre-existing folders. I also was searching for both the FaceTime and Settings apps to no avail.
This is where I started to freak out and I deleted the widget immediately and the FaceTime app reappeared. I was still missing the Settings app though - the most important app on the whole phone. In the meantime, I managed to get the gang back together for the two folders that broke up.
I searched for the Settings app, going into every folder. It was not there. So I turned to Google and basically the only thing I could find was to reset my Home Screen. After looking some more, I resorted to this. After I gave the okay, I instantly regretted it as I realized it meant dissembling all of the folders that I created (for some reason I thought it would just put back the main apps).
This is where I got upset since I spent quite some time organizing them to keep my mind sane and anxiety low. But then I noticed that not all of the apps actually were on my home screen that I used. So I realized I was using the maximum number of pages and since it was over that, they did not get put on.
This is when I Googled again and read that you can put back apps from the App Library (something I never use since my apps are organized) and I wish I came here first since I probably would have learned that from here. I could have just added the Settings app back via this way! So now I got even more upset that I got into this for nothing basically.
So I thought okay, I will use this to add back the missing apps. But when I went to add an app back to my home screen, I noticed that from the App Library, it lets you add an app more than once. I thought it would flag you as already being on the screen, but nope. So now I have no clue how to know what I do and do not have.
