My 4s has a blank homescreen, that is, no icons, and Siri won't work. How can I fix it?

I have a 4s and recently updated to the newest ios. Also, today I changed my homescreen photo and lock photo, and gave a game access to my photos. Tongith when I was playing a game, my phone became very sluggish and knocked me out of the game. It wouldn't let me back in, so I powered off the phone. When I turned it back on, the homescreen had no icons. It only showed my background photo, AT&T signal, Wifi signal, time and battery power. It lets me pull up the notification list and control center, but that is all. Siri doesn't work, either. I can answer calls but when I hang up, it doesn't dim the end button or go back to the homescreen, it just gets stuck with the caller's identity and the end button. I have turned it off and on several times, plugged it in even though it has over 50% of battery remaining, I have reset it by tapping the power button 5 times, and I have reset it by holding the power button with the home button. It hasn't fixed the problem. What else can I do? And, what could have caused this? I was just playing a game.

This is my exact issue too,
I can temporarily restore this function by going to
Settings
General
Siri, and turning Siri off then on again.
But after some hours, or by the next day it happens again. Hope this helps.

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