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Hi there
Thought this was the answer to my prayers but did not work for me. Can you suggest anything further.

Many thanks
Maggie

If you have Winterboard intalled, delete it. After Winterboard is removed, Go to Settings>General>Reset>Reset All Settings

did not work for me either. …both.

A big thanks this worked for me and after trying all resets and even 2 x restores which didn’t work. Thanks very much for sharing.

Thanks for telling me that reset would also delete all folders and erase months of work getting icons in folders. Crap

Thank you thank you thank you.  Yes, I had to put things back in folders but that only takes a short period of time.  At least I can now use it as a phone now.

Thanks for being a re-tard! 

You can repeat the process of Resetting Home Screen Layout until you see the missing icons. This is will solve your issue

Worked great for me but then I didn’t have any folders. Thanks

Second tip worked, thanks for posting

THANK YOUOUOUOUOUOU!

Boehoehoehoe

Hate to “Reset Home Screen Layout” as it will cause me to lose all folders/ organization. Turned restrictions off, which didn’t restore my Phone icon to the Home Screen, & the phone icon would not drag, as per “Update 2.”

Neither tips worked for me.

When my phone app icon had disappeared, I just entered the move mode (wriggling mode) by tapping and holding any icon on the springboard and tada, the phone app icon reappeared! Don’t know if this helps anybody…

Amazing write-up! This could aid plenty of people find out more about this particular issue. Are you keen to integrate video clips coupled with these? It would absolutely help out. Your conclusion was spot on and thanks to you; I probably won’t have to describe everything to my pals. I can simply direct them here!

You are a prince! Thanks!

It worked!!!!

deleting winterboard worked for my iphone 4s on ios 5 without reset, thanks very much

I had to put everything back in folders… but it was worth it as it only took a mere 5 minutes to do so

THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!!!!

on my iphone 4s i had to go to settings—>general—>reset—>then  reset home screen layout

thanks

This worked for me! iPhone 4s iOS 5.0.1 jb w winter board. Thanks so much! Thought I was going to have to lose my folders.

Go into any folder that has icons… or you can create one with any apps. Go into it and your icon should be where they first were. If this doesn’t help, then you need to go to settings/general/restrictions and enable then disable. Good luck to people who take my advise.

Thank you…simple fix…thanks again

Thank you so much for this info, my little boy got hold of my phone and the phone icon had gone, thank you so much, all working fine now, this also works on iPhone 4s by the way, thanks again

Did not work for me. My daughter had removed my phone, email, safari and music badge from the bottom of my phone. I did the reset home screen and trying to drag from the tray at the bottom of my screen with no avail…. I had to reset “all settings” by going in to settings then general then choose reset all settings. I did not loose any downloaded apps but did loose folders which is no biggie as I do not have tons of apps on my phone. It does take a few minutes as you have to go through the process of entering your apple id code and accepting the terms and yada, yada, yada. But Viola, I got my phone back to normal. Whew, hope it helps.

Now that was epic advise much better than having to reset my home screen, wasn’t looking forward to re organising some 60 something apps back to folders many thanks

Thank you so much! I can now use my app store icon.