how to get settings icon back on iPhone on home screen?

this article show how to get settings icon back on iPhone on home screen?. Two things will happen first thing is either your icon has delete from home screen or you are not getting settings icon anywhere in the phone. How to get iPhone settings icon back you can refer our article on this.

This article will try to solve both issues.

how to get settings icon back on iphone on home screen?

There is not settings icon on home screen and you want to get it back to home screen. Don’t worry it is quite easy thing to do . We have mention two ways to get back your settings icon

  1. Swap the screen to the bottom from top to bottom
  2. This whill show you search bar at top
  3. Then enter word “Settings” in the search bar
  4. This will show you settings icon as shown below.

Now Click on the settings icon

5.Now Goto “General” section of settings

6.Click on “Reset” button

7. Click on the “Reset Home Screen Layout”

Reset Home Screen Layout for settings icon back on home screen

8.Then the setting icon will be appear on the Home screen and default layout of your iPhone will be display .

This way all your apps will remain as it is and also no data will lost.

You will get you settings icon back to your required position. settings icon is the most important because through this you can bale to manager the settings of iPhone and manage apps.

second method without changing to default layout

This method is for you if your settings icon is missing and you do not want to change the default layout.

To achieve this you can do following steps

If you don’t know where is the settings icon the how to get settings icon back on iPhone on home screen

  • Swap the screen to the bottom from top to bottom
  • This will show you search bar at top.
  • Then enter word “Settings” in the search bar This will show you settings icon as shown below.
  • Now long press the icon will shown you following menu

    click on the add to Home screen shown in above figure.

    Then the setting icon will display in home screen.

    If you know where is the settings icon in apps group the follow steps mention below to get back on home screen

    1. long press the icon will shown you following menu
    2. Then it will shown you menu shown in above screen
    3. press that “Add to Home Screen” button
    4. The icon will be added to Home screen.

    if you still not get the solution then you can refer apple iphone faq section.