You Wake up one morning to find that some of the apps on your iPhone have simply disappeared. The first thought is to panic that some unspeakable evil has befallen your device. But in most cases, while the apps disappearance may have been caused by a bug, a lot of times, it is simply an error that can be easily rectified.
In this article, we look at the problem of disappearing apps and how you can fix it.
Tap the affected app, then tap Offload app. Tap Offload app again. Wait a moment for the app to offload, then tap Reinstall App. Apple TV: Highlight the app on the Home screen, then press and hold the Touch surface until the app jiggles. Press Play/Pause, then select Delete. When the problem app is closed, the spinning wheel of death should disappear. You should now be able to reopen the app and try again. Got a Persistent Pinwheel? Restart Your Mac. If the pinwheel refuses to disappear or keeps reappearing, restarting your machine is a good idea. Just click the Apple logo, select “Restart,” and then wait.
1. Make Sure They Haven’t been Moved Around
Before attempting any high-tech solution, it is important to make sure that the apps weren’t just moved around. If more than one person has access to the iPhone, for example, if you let your children play games on the device, it is very likely that the apps may simply have been moved across multiple home screens. This is very easy to do. All you or your child has to do is simply drag and drop the icon for the app to move.
In this case, it is quite easy to assume that the app is missing. The easiest way to find the missing apps especially if you have a lot of apps installed on the device is to use Spotlight Search. Simply drag your finger down on the home screen and start typing. The app should show up in the search results if it is still on your device.
2. Check If You Have Accidentally Deleted the Apps
It is also likely that the apps may have been deleted. If they don’t show up on Spotlight, it may be that someone may have accidentally or purposely deleted the apps. Again, this can happen very easily especially if more than one person has access to the iPhone.
You should also note that Apple now does allow users to remove built-in applications. So, if one or more of the apps is a built-in app, it is also likely that it may have been removed from the device.
The good news is, you can simply re-download the apps from the App store. Just look for them in the app store and then download them again as you would any app.
3. Restart or Force Restart the iPhone
If you are sure that the apps weren’t deleted but you still can’t see them, your iPhone may need to be restarted as a way to make it functional again. A restart will often fix a lot of issues with the device and this is just one of them. To perform a restart, follow these simple steps.
Step 1: Press and hold the power button (top or side for iPhone 8) and (side and volume button for iPhone X) until the slider appears.
Step 2: Drag the slider to turn off the device and then press and hold the power button to restart the device.
4. Check If Your Access to Certain Apps is Restricted
It is also quite likely that there are some restrictions that have been enabled on your device to keep you from accessing the apps. While these restrictions do come in handy for parental control when parents don’t want their kids to be on certain apps, they can also cause apps to disappear when turned on. They can also prevent apps from being installed or deleted on the device.
If you think the restrictions setting is keeping you from accessing certain apps on your device, you can check by going to Settings > General > Restrictions. If there are any restrictions on the device, you may have to enter a password. Once you enter the password, turn on the toggle next to an app that may have been restricted. This will cause the app to reappear on your device.
If none of the above solutions do anything to get your apps back, it is very likely that the problem is caused by a bug in Ios. This can happen if you had updated your device recently. In this case, there is very little you can do other than wait for an iOS update that can fix the bug. Apple often releases these updates and they work very well. Simply update the device to the new version of iOS and the problem should go away.
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For me, the problem seemed to occur when the folder was currently open in the Finder, and a background app wrote or moved files there; the Finder wouldn't spot the extra file, not even after closing and reopening the folder.
I don't remember exactly how I fixed it, but it wasn't anything as drastic as deleting the folder! I think I tried removing the .DS_Store file, and then quitting and restarting the Finder. (You'll need to have enabled the Finder's Quit option, with something like TinkerTool.) Basically, you have to persuade the Finder to rescan the folder somehow.
Of course, certain files are hidden from the Finder deliberately: those starting with a dot, those with the Invisible HFS attribute, those listed in a .hidden file in that folder, and probably where permissions on the folder don't allow listing files &c. So you won't get it to display those whatever you do!
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You can quit the Finder by option-control clicking on the Finder icon in the Dock and choosing 'Relaunch.'
I'm the poster. I created an account because I just wanted to say that in my case I had also tried deleting the .ds_store. Of course, I had hoped that would work. Unfortunately in my case I had to delete his whole folder.
From a GroupLogic page:
'..comments are kept in a directory meta-information file called .DS_Store. When OS X moves or copies files around, the .DS_Store files in the appropriate folders are modified so that the comments move along with the file, even though they aren't stored in the meta-information of the file itself. ..Finally, the .DS_Store file was not designed for multi-user use. If multiple users modify the file simultaneously data loss can occur. Although this happens with comments it is more often seen with the default view and the positioning of icons for a folder [emphasis mine]. The problem is that the last person who writes to the .DS_Store will have their changes overwrite some or all of the changes other people have made. This is even further complicated by the fact that the .DS_Store files are written lazily. - that is, until the volume is unmounted the Finder will not try to put add its changes to the .DS_Store.'
Perhaps related, my Macintosh HD desktop icon's free space info is rarely accurate. (I have 'Show item info' checked, so that I can see total space and free space.) Finder says one thing, the icon says another. Sometimes it's been off by 10GB! I don't think it's related to Trash, because I usually leave it empty.
This is because the info in the icon is updated only the next time Finder is restarted. If you do a 'get info' on the hard disk though, then the free space shown is correct. So you need to quit Finder and when it restarts then the free space info will be correct - Just press Command-option-escape and relaunch finder, the info will be correct. As an alternative type df -h in the terminal - this always shows the correct disk space info for all mounted disks
Download fifa 18 for mac. copying any file into the base directory will cause the size or free space to be re-calculated
I've noticed this in 2 cases,
1) On the Desktop when you have Show Item Info (in View options)
the 'xxx MB free' does not update until something at the base level of that hard drive changes (copy or move a text clipping or something small to that drive, and it should update very quickly)
2) In List view when Calculate All Sizes is turned on, a folders size does not update if a sub folder is actually getting changes, you have to make a change to the number of files (one in, or one out) in the folder you want to see the size of.
These cases do not affect the Get Info window, only what is displayed directly in finder windows. I Hope this is somewhat clear, I'm a little tired.
I have a similar, sporadic problem with the finder (older g4 ibook, 10.3.8, < 2gb free out of 40gb). Sometimes, the finder does not show any files. ls and emacs show that the files are really there. The only cure is to log out and log back in.
Weird.
On my last iBook I noticed this frequently when taking screenshots, which are automatically saved to the desktop. They would often disappear as soon as they were created..
When I look at
ls -l in terminal it turns out the 'invisible' file also has a size of 0. I just rm the file (or sudo rm if needed) and recopy it. I'ts a pain if you're trying to do something automated, but if you just need the file, recopying seems far less harsh than a Finder Relaunch (BTW: you can relaunch the Finder from the 'Force Quit' dialog also cmd-option-esc)
You might consider just moving it somewhere.. mv Desktop Desktop.old should do the trick. That way you don't run the risk of deleting anything you shouldnt.
I had a similar thing happen to me during this past week, although I think the trouble went a little further than this. I had a list of mp3 files in my Music folder and every time I clicked on one, the file would disappear. Even in Terminal the files were not there! I was wondering what the hell was going on. And it wasn't all files in that folder, just files from a few weeks ago. I decided to reboot and pray. That fixed it - they were back. (It's also possible that having journalling enabled on my drive helped.)
I would bet this is just a display issue.
I would use an app like Finder'Fresher before deleting anything.
-ahancock
I would bet this is just a display issue.
I would use an app like Finder'Fresher before deleting anything.
-ahancock
It *is* a display issue and but also appears to be two bugs. They are as follows:
1. If a file is downloaded or copied to the desktop or a folder in the Finder or a Unix command is run that does the same, sometimes the Finder window will not 'refresh' immediately. The workaround is matter of forcing a refresh. Logging out/in is drastic, but will work, but also will other things mentioned above. I still (10.3.8) frequently have this problem and I think it's been around for a long time (i.e. since the beginning of OS X, 10.0). Possibly to make the system more responsive, the Finder does not actively 'poll' for file changes in directories.
2. The other bug I've seen on another user's machine. A girl I work with had a disc of photos. As she clicked on the photo file in the Finder, the icon disappeared. Being a computer novice, she thought the files were being erased, but obviously on a CD, the files were fine. A restart corrected the problem, but until that point, I had never seen that one before. I believe this was under 10.3.7.
Yeah, the same bizarre thing happened to me, although a bit differently.. I started getting Error -36 whenever I tried to create a file or folder on the desktop, I was unable to do anything to the desktop.
Firefox download mac os x. The problem first materialized by half of the files on my desktop disappearing. Then a week went by before it got unbearable, and finally when I started fiddling it got really bizarre, I'd tried to drag a single file to the desktop and all the desktop files would disappear.
I'd never seen anything like it before on a Mac.
Then, it was like a ghost was in the machine, because while I couldn't see the files in the finder or using the terminal (ls -a), the files weren't completely gone, because after I'd delete the Desktop DF and Desktop DB files they would reappear, but as soon as I tried to create a file on the desktop everything would disappear, both from the Finder and the Terminal. Anyway the desktop files reappeared long enough for me to copy them out after I deleted the Desktop DF files.
Wasn't able to remove the Desktop directory as you suggested because even though there was nothing in it, could not remove it because it said it wasn't empty.
I was able to rename it however, and when I restarted, I was able to move files and create folders on my desktop once again.
I suspect there are still problems with my file system, however, so I'm using CCC (carbon copy cloner) to back up the files, and I'm going to reformat my hard drive. :-(
One reason for thinking that the file system isn't working right is because I tried to unencrypt the FileVault after that and it wouldn't let me. And on top of that, the trash couldn't be emptied of it's contents, etc. etc.
Well, whatever, I've got backups. But it's a pain.
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Please! Help.
Is there any way I can recover the contents of my desktop??
While I was hooked to my home Mac I tried to retrieve a file and couldn't find it.
Went back to my laptop and the screen was clean of all I had on the dsktop!
Can they be retrieved?
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Well, I apply the sudo the 'rm -rf ~/Desktop' command and it did erase my Desktop folder, I relaunch my finder and it did recreated the Desktop Folder, my only problem is that I can't see any of it's contents directly in my desktop (as it was) plus I can't copy nothing to the desktop. Do anyone know how can I enable that function? Anyway, it's worst now!