Many iPhone users after updating their iPhone to latest
iOS 13 are facing issue in rearranging app icon on iPhone with iOS 13. The issue seems to be occurring after iOS 13
update and after upgrading the iPhone to iOS 13 and when trying
to rearrange app icons by long pressing the app icon and select "Rearrange
Apps" from the context menu, Now the apps icon will have x mark and jiggles.
Now when tried to move/rearrange an icon and after a 1-2 second delay the icon
moves but then freezes on the screen without the "x" mark. Screen
also becomes sluggish and you can’t move app icon on iPhone/iOS 13. After
sometimes the x marks disappear, and fails to rearrange the app icon.
iOS 13 unable to rearrange icons |
It is almost
impossible to move icons on the Home Screen. Sometimes, the icon do move onto
the exact perfect pixel, start to giggle again and stay in place but most times
it will be frozen. This is absolutely a serious bug.
How to fix unable to rearrange app icons in iPhone XS Max/XR/7/8/6s Plus :
Fix 1 : turn off Zoom in accessibility
One possible reason for the issue is the Zoom feature
in iPhone/iOS 13. The icon bug in ios 13 is related to the three
finger zoom feature in Accessibility. Zoom
function may get enabled with the three finger double tap active in accessibility
settings which can be the cause of this problem. Disable this in settings (Turn
Zoom off in settings > accessibility-Zoom) and after this moving the icon on screen should be
normal.
Please note that this is a workaround as after turning
Zoom back on, restarting the phone causes the bug to come back again. Unless
you move apps around constantly, turn off Zoom, move the apps, then turn Zoom
back on, until Apple fixes this.
It
might be pain for you to toggle zoom from setting, everytime. One easy way to
do this :
- Tap
Settings
- Tap
Accessibility
- scroll
down to Accessibility Shortcut
- Put
a check by Zoom in the list of services by tapping on Zoom.
This
will enable triple clicking the Home button to disable / enable zoom. No more
having to go in and out of settings to toggle3 the setting.
Fix 2: Do a Hard press
- Rest
your finger on the app you want to move until the option box comes up
- Tap
Rearrange
- The
apps jiggle
- NOW,
put your finger on the app and press HARDER on the app icon and slowly
move it where you want to move it, keeping more pressure on the app as you
slide your finger around
Fix 3: Takes some time
It
takes a harder press on the icon in order to control the movement. It takes a
little getting used to, but the harder press is the way to get it to work.
Fix 4: Update to latest iOS 13
Apple
must be aware of such issues and a permanent fix for these issue will be
released in iOS 13 next releases. The iOS 13.1 is out but still iPhone users can’t
rearrange app icon in this release also. Hopefully Apple fixes this issue in
next build.
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