Something strange happened with my iPhone the other day. I installed a few apps, deleted a few–this is something I do almost every other day–synced the iPhone with iTunes on my Mac, and then restarted the phone. The strange thing in this was that I had some basic lite version of a game–something gimmicky, I recall–which now had a very different icon: the icon now showed a girl in a bikini, having fun on the beach all by herself while the sun quietly sets behind her. The app name didn’t change, the icon had. Since I’ve never purchased any bikini pictures type apps, this was very strange indeed.
Umm, scratch that. Anyway. So my iPhone mixed up app icons. Some app I had uninstalled had left its image over an app I had on my iPhone.
This has actually happened a couple of times, and while I found the problem only faintly amusing, today at last I went looking for some information about what’s really happening here.
There is also an annoying bug that causes my apps to change it’s app icon which is pretty stupid. I’ve deleted all my downloaded apps due to that. My IM+ changed it’s icon to Sims3. My need for speed changed to IM+… and the list continues. Although the apps still respond as regular it’s a really ugly look. I tried deleting them and reinstalling, tried restarting my phone but it doesn’t work. Really hope my beejive doesn’t change.
The above report was by a user known as ‘LegendarySwag,’ and the entire discussion is happening on Apple’s discussion forums.
iPhone Hacks offers a couple of fixes to this problem, one of which, (quoted below) can only have been found by chance:
- Go into App Store on Iphone and start download of an app that you don’t already have. Doesn’t matter which one. Before the download is complete “pause” it by tapping the icon for the new app.
- Now power off your iphone and then power back on.
- Mixed up images for apps should now be fixed, you can unpause download you had going, let it finish and keep it or delete it if you don’t want that app.
That’s really clever I have to say. Now I can’t wait to get rid of some of those icons I absolutely do NOT want on my iPhone.
