I was idly scrolling around my iPhone 4 home screen last night, when suddenly this happened:
I got it stuck between the first two pages on the home screen. This is repeatable; you just need to scroll to the right pixel. It takes a few tries, but it’s fairly easy to do. The buttons on the “active” page (the left half) work as normal, even the folders, but the buttons on the “inactive” page (the right half) do not. The left half is always the “active” half.
I could not reproduce it on the iPhone 3Gs.
Now, a few hours after taking this picture I was fiddling with it some more. I got it stuck between two pages, then I tap-and-held on one of the buttons on the right half of the screen. The screen scrolled to the “active” page, and the folder was gone! It was nowhere to be found.
I had to reboot my phone before I could get my icons back, but when I did so, every folder except one was gone, and all my icons were scattered randomly across five home screen pages. Took me another half hour to sort them again.
So, next time you’re fiddling with a software bug in iOS4, don’t be surprised if things aren’t as you expect when you reboot your phone…
This happens occasionally on my droid as well.
Hahaha I always flick between my home screen pages, and try to balance them for fun. One day it stuck! It is definitely repeatable, but the 3GS can’t do it. Iphone 4 users never believe until I show them. This was the only mention i could find of it with a quick google search.
This has just recently started happening on my iPhone 3G… I have to manually reboot to get it to work properly. Any reasons why it does this? I cannot find any info online.
It’s a software bug, though I’m surprised it can happen on the 3G, since it can’t happen on the 3GS. It’s pretty rare, so if Apple knows about it, I’m sure it’s very low on their priority list.
What Nick said, lol!
I tripped out when I first discovered I could do it – Dan, I think you took the balancing a little too far 😉 testing the boundaries? Hehe. Glad I found this topic, it’s neat 🙂
My friend did it on my iPhone 3Gs before but it’s really hard to do. 🙂