App icons size has always been the popular issue on iPhone and iPad. Someone wants to fit more icons on a single home screen, another person prefers bigger icons due to their age. Tastes differ.
Over the years and until today, iPhone and iPad owners have resorted to a workaround – they used the Screen Zoom option to make app icons larger. But iPadOS 13 brought us the new marvelous native feature and now you can make app icons bigger or smaller at your taste and switch between the two icons sizes when you need it.
The method was introduced on July 2019 and is applicable to iPads running iPadOS version 13 beta 5 or later.
How to Make App Icons Smaller or Larger on iPad
Follow the steps on your iPad:
- Go to Settings:
- In the right part of the Settings screen select Display and Brightness.
- In the left part scroll down to the bottom and switch to Larger icons: That’s it!
Here is how it looks in comparison:
- Bigger icons shows up to 20 larger app icons:
- Smaller icons – fits up to 30 smaller app icons on the screen:
The Old Workaround– Display Zoom
If you don’t have an iPadOS compatible device, you can use the workaround we were speaking about at the beginning of the article. The con of this method is that zooming increase everything on the screen but not only app icons.
Follow the steps to switch to zoomed view on your iPhone or iPad:
- Go to Settings.
- Dive in Display & Brightness.
- Scroll down to the Display Zoom section and tap on View:
- Select the Zoomed option and tap Set in the upper right corner of the screen:
- Confirm by tapping on Use Zoomed:
- Wait for a few seconds until the zoomed view will be applied.
Here is how it looks:
- Normal display:
- Zoomed display:
I hope, that at least one option will suit you. Tell me in the comments, which option do you prefer and why.
Adam Swift Adam is a real tech maniac. He likes to spend time testing phones, tablets, laptops, as well as any other technical devices, and write practical manuals on their functions. He often sleeps all day, but always works at night.
Adam bought his first computer in 1999, being an absolute beginner who never held a computer mouse in his hands. He began to study Windows, constantly experimented and often crashed the operating system. But six months later, he was able to reinstall Windows 98 from a scratch on his own, fix almost any software problem on a PC, he also did hardware upgrades and realized that computers, operating systems and programs are now his biggest passion.
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You need to update this information. This voice is now in ‘home screen and dock’ not in ‘display and brightness’. Why the hell do programmers change the basic menu location of things? And why don’t they f...ing leave my settings alone when they patch their program? Give me a list of what is new but don’t make me recover all the settings I’ve established first thing in the morning. This is why people hate computers. They exist to make our life inconvenient.