App Arrangement on iPad
There used to be a setting to show “fewer” apps on the iPad screen so they would appear larger. That feature seems to be gone in iOS 15. Does anyone have any tips?
iPad Pro 9.7-inch WiFi
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The More/Bigger option for the Home Screen layout was available in iPadOS13/14, but is no longer a feature of iPadOS15.
With previous major versions of iPadOS, you were able to choose a Home Screen layout of 5x6 App/Folder icons (the “More” option) or 4x5 App/Folder icons (“bigger”). When using “More”, the first Home Screen also had a pinned Today View when the iPad was oriented in Landscape orientation.
iPadOS15 has introduced significant changes - of significance to your question is the greater flexibility in placement of Widgets on any of the Home Screens.
With iPadOS15, you are now able to freely position widgets on any of the Home Screens - but you have lost the “compact” first Home Screen layout that showed a compressed 4x5 grid of App/Folder icons with Today view in Landscape screen orientation.
Widgets placed on a Home Screen now individually occupy one or more elements of a 4x6 icon grid. Home Screens without Widgets retain the familiar 5x6 icon grid. The slide-over Today View, previously seen in Portrait screen orientation from the first Home Screen, is still present - and is now also seen in Landscape. However, slide-over does not incorporate the Time and Time panel of previous versions.
In iPadOS you can, however, choose Use Large App icons. This option increases the relative size of the App/Folder icons, but this does not fully replicate the effect of the previously available More/Bigger configuration choices.
More information about the new Widgets can be found here:
Use widgets on your iPad - Apple Support
The iPad User Guide is also a rich source of information - and is especially useful in becoming familiar with the many changes and new features introduced in iPadOS15. The Guide is available both online using a web browser (such as Safari), or as an Apple Books download:
iPad User Guide - Apple Support
https://books.apple.com/book/id1567104892
Apple do invite constructive feedback, comments and feature requests via their product feedback pages. For iPad and iPadOS: