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I've noticed a strange thing happening on my home screen. Sometimes, and it seems when apps are automatically being updated, a gray app icon with a circle and an 'x' appears on my home screen. It will not go away and you cannot select it.
My home screen consists of 14 app icons, the rest of the screen is empty. I do this to declutter my home screen.
When I reboot my phone, the grey icon is gone, but it fills up my home screen with other app icons from a different page. When I move them back over to the second page so that only 14 apps appear again and the rest is empty space, I reboot my phone again, and it fills up the home page with more apps (different ones).
Is anybody else experiencing this issue? I tried to take a screen print of the grey icon to post here on my iphone, but when I looked at the photo, it wasn't there (very strange).
What does this grey app icon represent?
Is this a bug in the software?

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