HT204266 Mg iPhone Message app disappeared. I thought this app comes with the phone and can't be deletede, removed. What happened? How can it be reinstated?
My messages app badge disappeared? How can it be reinstated please?
HonestGabe wrote:
I have heard of people accidentally putting applications in the fabled 12th page and being unable to locate them afterwards. Usually, a simple hard reset will correct such a glitch. This glitch is common to those who have an extensive amount of applications. Do you have many apps? To verify whether the application is misplaced or actually removed, do a quick spotlight search for the Messages application. If spotlight can still find it, then it is certainly on your phone.
For the record, there is no such thing as a 12th page. The iPhone can have 11 pages of apps/folders displayed. You can have as many apps as you have memory space for, though. Anything that can't be placed on a home screen can be accessed by searching.
There is also no such thing as a "hard reset". There is a reset (press and hold the Home and power buttons until the silver apple appears). This is the equivalent of rebootig a computer. It will NOT affect icon placement. Restoring the phone as new (wiping it back to factory settings) will restore the original icon placement but is the equivalent of using a nucluear bomb to swat a fly. It is possible to reset the screen layout without loosing any data by going to Settings>General>Reset>Reset Home Screen Layout.
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