iPhone and iPod touch: Missing applications after update or restore
Symptoms
After installing iPhone OS 3.0, your applications may be in a different place on your screen, or may need to be synced with iTunes. In addition, the Text application icon and label will change.
The Home screen may look like this prior to installing iPhone OS 3.0:
After installing iPhone OS 3.0, the Home screen and second screen may appear like this:
Products Affected
iPhone, iPod touch, iPhone 3G, iPod touch (2nd generation)
Resolution
After an Update
If you selected the option to update your iPhone or iPod touch or restored from a backup:
iPhone OS 3.0 added a new application for the original iPhone, iPhone 3G, and your iPod touch (2nd generation) called Voice Memos. If you already had 16 applications on your Home screen (not including the four applications in the bottom row), or if you had moved the Text application (for SMS messages), applications may be moved to a new second screen after the update or restore. In this case, applications that were previously on your second screen will now be on the third screen.
If you move the application or applications on the second screen to the third screen, the third screen will move back to being the second screen. (In other words, if you move all the applications from the new second screen, your iPhone or iPod touch will remove the now-empty second screen, so that the third screen will become the second.)
After a Restore
If you selected the option to restore and did not load your applications or settings from a backup:
If you restored your iPhone to install an iPhone OS update, you will need to sync your applications from the computer as explained in this article. If you purchased the applications on the iPhone and do not have them on the computer, you may redownload them following the steps in this article.