I assume someone may find this trick useful, so its worthwhile passing off, however its a trick that I am likely to never use myself. Anyway, for those who have re-arranged your iPhone icons and wanted to easily bring them back to their first boot placement, you can do so with just a few taps on the screen.
To restore your home screen icons to their default placement, simply go to Settings, General, Reset. Once you get to Reset you will see “Reset Home Screen Layout” just click and they will magically re-arrange back.
In addition, once in the Reset section, you will also have a few more that may be a little more useful such as the “Reset Location Warnings” option.
Of course, what I would find more useful, is a little trick that would allow me to quickly re-arrange my home screen icons to my preferred placement after I update or install any apps.
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August 18th, 2008 at 5:38 pm
I agree with you on the updating. It should update it where it sits, not erase the original and start installing a new version.
February 6th, 2009 at 4:39 pm
my default menu screen app is no longer showing..plz what can i do to restore them back?
August 2nd, 2009 at 8:36 pm
Well, do you also know how NOT to restore your iPhone home screen icons? In other words, preventing to have your iPhone restoring the home screen?
Because that’s excactly what my jailbroken iPhone does.
August 18th, 2009 at 6:42 pm
Thanks it worked fine
February 18th, 2010 at 4:26 am
Thanks! Perfect!
July 21st, 2010 at 5:33 am
My Iphone 3GS icons have been enlarged also every thing i opens , open in zoomed format . pls advice what you do to restore it
August 8th, 2010 at 6:53 pm
My iphone 3gs icons have been enlarged – how do I restore it to its original font?
October 17th, 2010 at 5:54 pm
try to double tap it using 3 fingers and it will go back to original
January 28th, 2011 at 9:07 pm
u hold down the home button and the sleep and wake button and it will say connet to itunes and you click the restore button and u hole iphone will be restore
April 10th, 2011 at 11:47 am
Thank you, Thank you for posting this. My daughter got ahold of my phone and managed to erase and move all the buttons!