App icons won't move to a different page

After the icons are wiggling I try to move them to another page but the icon just slides back to where it was? I have no problem doing this on my iPhone, only y iPad? Any ideas?

I’m having a similar problem. I can drag icons to the right, moving them to pages 2, 3+, but I can’t any to a page to the left.
I just downloaded an app and wanted to move a couple of icons to page 2 to make room for the new icon . Now I can’t move any of them to page 1 and have some icons on page 3 now too!
Is this a new problem with the latest software. I think I was able to move icons up or down pages before.

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