Now that iPadOS 15 is out, chances are you’re filling your homescreens with widgets. For most iPad models, that all aligns just fine, but the 12.9” iPad Pro models are a bit different.
The maximum number of icons, be it apps or folders, on a homescreen is 30 (6×5 grid), as demonstrated below.
However, the moment you drop a widget on there, it changes to four icons vertically, meaning that you can get up to 23 icons (6×4, and at least one taken by a widget). Quite the drop from 30, I must say.
This is all about aligning things, obviously, but it’s a bit wasteful of the screen real-estate, don’t you think?
Speaking of which, there’s been a tightening of icons too. Below is the same view on iPadOS 14, where the icons are somewhat more spread out.
