Take a photo with your camera or choose one from your gallery. Under HOME SCREEN NAME AND ICON, tap the icon button to add a new image for your shortcut.Tap the Edit icon (the three sliders) at the top right corner and select Add to Home Screen.Tap the blue App button next to the Open App icon, then choose an app from the list of apps that appears.In the search bar that appears at the top of the screen, type in Open app, then select the Open App app that appears under Scripting.Tap the + icon in the top right corner of the screen.To make your own custom icons: X Research source They also offer the opportunity to customize the look of your home screen, since you can create custom icons for each shortcut. Whilst you are now able to freely position widgets on any of the Home Screens, you have lost the compact first Home Screen layout (that shows a compressed 4圆 grid of App/Folder icons and Today view). Shortcuts allow you to use features of your apps without directly opening them. A: Answer: A: There are many changes within iPadOS15 - of which one is the loss of the Today view on the first Home Screen. My suggestion would be to use the "Distribute to Newly Assigned devices only" option when making changes to a home screen layout.Use the Shortcuts app to create new icons. The change you saw on the iPad probably because of the change you made to the profile. If you were to have installed a new app after applying that change, you would see it fall into an empty space on page 1 as you saw before.Īs I understand it the home screen layout is a one-time change that isn't enforced afterwards(most likely because home screen layout isn't collected in inventory so there would be no way to compare the current layout to the configured one to know if enforcement is necessary). This results in all non-configured apps that are already installed being pushed to the next available spaces(in your case these started on page 3 since it wasn't touched by the layout) so that the empty spaces in the layout can be emptied.
When you made the change, and it processed on the already set up iPad, it followed the same steps, including emptying the spaces left empty in the layout. The emptying of the spaces is the key here, as once those spaces are emptied they are treated just like any other empty space and can be filled with newly installed apps. This meant the apps with reserved spots fell into said spots when they installed, and any without reserved spots fell into the first available empty space. When you wiped the iPad, it got the layout profile before any apps were there and did three things: created any folders needed, reserved spaces for all of the apps that you had configured in the layout, and emptied the spaces you had empty in the layout. I'll quickly break down the two scenarios you encountered. 2: They are not persistent they make their changes once then go away. 1: They save everything detail about the pages you set in the profile, including empty spaces. There are two important things to understand about the layout profiles. I've not messed with Home Screen Layouts much, but here's how I understand it. Question 2 - If I hadn't of tweaked that profile, is there some sort of schedule when the iPad would have checked in and updated itself to this inconvenient change? I was hoping that I could put what I want at the beginning of page 1 and then let undefined and new apps fall in afterwards without any specific assignment, but that doesn't appear possible. I thought "wow, jackpot".īut then I noticed that if I make a small tweak to that profile, when it pushes out to the device, all of the apps that I didn't specifically define a spot for end up on a third page. The apps all installed fast, my dock items appeared, the few items I set to go to the beginning of page 1 all appeared in the right order, the apps I didn't define in the home screen layout all fell into place in the remainder of page 1, and the folder I set for page 2 appeared there, populated with the apps I wanted in it. Just for giggles, I wiped a device to see how fast and easy I could get the device back to that state. The other day we deployed a bunch of apps and then I started to work on the home screen layout profile and put everything where they wanted. The few schools that I've rolled into so far seem to want slightly different user experiences, starting with home screen layout. We've got a lot of schools, a lot of devices, and a lot of different apps. Just getting going on using Jamf to manage iPads with our school district.