Having personally encountered this issue several times with my iPhone 11 running various versions of iOS 14.6 and iOS 14.x, it’s a bit of a mystery as to what is going on. What’s going on here? Why does this happen? Then reboot the iPhone again by turning it off and back on (or hard reboot again).Īt this point the icons should be back on the screen as expected. Make sure the iPhone has at least 1GB of storage space freely available. Go to Settings > General > iPhone Storage and locate apps, videos, or other large data hogs, and remove them from the iPhone. If the iPhone starts back up and is still missing icons (often they will be different icons missing after a reboot, like a fun game of musical chairs), the next thing to do is to clear up some storage space on the iPhone itself. Sometimes this alone can fix the missing icon problem, or the blank dock issue. The first thing you’ll want to do is reboot your iPhone.Ī hard reboot is often the easiest thing to do, which is accomplished by pressing Volume Up, then Volume Down, then pressing and holding the Power button until you see the Apple logo show up on screen. Help, My iPhone Apps Icons Are Missing! 1: Reboot iPhone So, does your iPhone screen look something like this, missing icons randomly? But don’t worry, if this happens to you the icons are not gone permanently. It’s a very strange issue and it can be somewhat alarming. When the icons are missing, the places they should appear on the screen are still taken up, but they are not clickable, and nothing shows up there at all.
Sometimes the entire bottom row of icons in the Dock are missing, along with other icons that are supposed to be on the iPhone Home Screen or within folders.