Comments on: iPhone 101: How to Reset Your Home Screen Icons to Default

By: Kailee

Kailee — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 02:28:46 +0000

It puts the icons back they way first were, so it might delete apps, but I'm not sure

By: Kailee

Kailee — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 02:26:54 +0000

Thanks:)

By: Kelsey

Kelsey — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 22:57:05 +0000

Does it also delete all of your downloaded apps? Or just push them back? How does it work?

By: Ascom

Ascom — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 02:36:53 +0000

Ah, that's better. Now I'm happy. Thanks for showing me how to un-mess up my homescreen after playing with it.

By: ak

ak — Mon, 05 Mar 2012 06:54:29 +0000

I did this and it worked ! 4 of my apps were in a box labeled utilities and all I had to do was get each one out. Thank you so much

By: Rena

Rena — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 00:52:49 +0000

So if I reset my home screen, all the apps, including the ones I downloaded, will just be organized alphabetically and not disappear?

By: Tartangown

Tartangown — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 00:00:00 +0000

thank you, thank you, thank you

By: Tartangown

Tartangown — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 00:00:00 +0000

thank you, thank you, thank you

By: Home

Home — Sun, 06 Nov 2011 21:09:00 +0000

Thank you thankyou, this did exactly what you said it would do, I just had th calendar icon missing and did the home page reset and all my icons/apps are still there plus the previously missing calendar one. Thank you again. Oliver

By: Home

Home — Sun, 06 Nov 2011 21:09:00 +0000

By: Home

Home — Sun, 06 Nov 2011 21:09:00 +0000

By: mgs4a

mgs4a — Sun, 04 Sep 2011 11:54:00 +0000

i cannot find the settings

By: Guest

Guest — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 19:59:00 +0000

When that happened to me I tried to put all visible apps in folders (12 per folder), then restart, and the rest will show up. I put those in folders too and do that until you get to the end. Now my home screen only contains of the built-in apps on the first page and from the second page it's all folders. My layout is now completely gone but there's no other way to fix this.

By: Masonhagan

Masonhagan — Sun, 14 Aug 2011 06:04:00 +0000

Very good directions, if I hadn't asked someone else about reseting the homescreen layout earlier, I would have learned this even faster. Tons of people must know how to reset homescreen layout to default because of this helpful website. I love it!

By: Ruckus

Ruckus — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 21:29:00 +0000

My phone zoomed in on accident and I didn't know how to zoom back out so I reset the home screen and I have a lot o apps so when it alphabetized them I lost all my icons after m. I still have the apps but I have to search for them to use them. How do I get the icons back?

By: Km4221

Km4221 — Tue, 26 Jul 2011 12:14:00 +0000

all your apps will stay...i took the risk to just try it and all my apps are still here-just in alphabetical order

By: sonam

sonam — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 08:56:26 +0000

all my icons hav disappeared leavn my home screen blank...i restored da home layout screen but it diddnt help....plz tell me wot 2 do??

By: Bob

Bob — Sun, 05 Dec 2010 01:01:29 +0000

But will all my apps go?

By: csicso

csicso — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 08:55:56 +0000

My factory icons disappeared, just the custom installed programs visible. Settings, Contacts, Calendar, Calculator, all disappeared. The re-jailbreak doesn't helped, restore doesn't helped... Any suggestions?

By: fizzi

fizzi — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 09:13:56 +0000

none of the apps are showing up on the homescreen of my iphone. i just got it from a friend so he resetted it and now the homescreen in completely blank. is there anything i can do??

By: Joe

Joe — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 13:21:17 +0000

guys.. i don't even have that settings option..what do i do to get it back ive got everything else except settings

By: lynsey

lynsey — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 12:26:09 +0000

i have just updated the new software and all my apps have disappeared, can anybody tell me where they have gone please? thanks

By: pleask55

pleask55 — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 03:35:19 +0000

yep the reset for home screen works well BUT indeed does reset ALL other icons on ALL other pages alphabeticly ... Al ur spot on man!

By: Tyler

Tyler — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 04:43:08 +0000

Is there a way to reset your calendar? Btw don't make a all day date from 1933 to 2069

By: BBYM

BBYM — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 23:54:56 +0000

I have 2.2.1 and have that on reset menu..

By: Drake

Drake — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 23:40:22 +0000

Apple should build in a home screen locker that locks them in with a pass code. Just saying. this could avoid the blank home screens. and people messing with it.

By: Ben

Ben — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 22:35:48 +0000

How do you end up with a blank homescreen? Now I feel dumb that a 3 year old can do it in 5 minutes yet I can't figure it out.

By: Al

Al — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 21:53:27 +0000

Agreed Omari, they need to have a tool built into iTunes that allows you to reorganize icons which are they moved on the phone during sync. If you ever restore your phone and reload all of your apps again they become alphabetized as Roger said. Even if you have screenshots of your iPhone taken before you restore it is a huge pain moving them all back to your desired locations.

By: Al

Al — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 21:51:27 +0000

@ Roger - Look directly above your own post sir and you will find your answer.

By: OmariJames

OmariJames — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 21:49:19 +0000

Hmm. They should work on enhancing how we organize our apps.

By: Roger

Roger — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 21:30:48 +0000

What about the other apps you may have? Are they deleted after reset?

By: Marc

Marc — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 21:24:03 +0000

Careful: the home screen is restored indeed.

And all the other apps and icons are alphabetically re-sorted.

By: Microcosmos

Microcosmos — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 21:16:08 +0000

@Joe McG: looks like you have to sync up to get those back! Yeah, keep an eye on those kids when they're messing with your phone my goodness!

By: Danny

Danny — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 20:38:17 +0000

Yes it is 3.0 probably beta or the crack one but the same except crack is way better u could customize ur iPhone with it

By: Joe McG

Joe McG — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 19:58:44 +0000

Oh my gosh! My son did this the other day. What a mess!

What happens to your non-default programs?

By: Matt Hall

Matt Hall — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 19:40:54 +0000

Ah cool. I don't remember ever going into reset while using 2.0. But as far as with 3.0 I have explored it throughly.

By: Chris

Chris — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 19:34:26 +0000

@Matt Hall

I noticed that the screenshot they used must be 3.0, because it's got that magnifying glass searcher icon to the left of the first homescreen page, so I'm wondering if you're right.

By: icebike

icebike — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 19:34:26 +0000

Matt, Its on 2.2.1, its been on every version since at least 2.0 when I last used it.

Back then, I had no apps other than the default, so I don't remember if this restored apps deleted by pressing the wiggling X. Anybody know?

By: Matt Hall

Matt Hall — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 19:14:36 +0000

Isn't this a feature of 3.0? Maybe I'm wrong but I don't remember it on 2.2.1