Jiggle mode finally has a safety net
On iPhone the Home Screen has long had some protections against accidental edits, but on iPad — where icons occupy space on a larger grid and accidental dragging is more frequent — Undo and Redo support during edit mode was missing. iPadOS 27 closes this gap: after activating Home Screen editing, you can undo the last move or deletion with a standard gesture (shake the device or use the Cmd+Z keyboard shortcut) and redo it just as easily.
The feature is among the 263 improvements listed in the WWDC 2026 keynote slide and documented by iClarified. It is not an epochal novelty, but it is the type of correction that heavy iPad users had flagged as a concrete gap for years.
Context: iPad as a productive device
Apple has in recent years devoted great attention to positioning iPad as a productivity tool, introducing advanced keyboard shortcuts, Stage Manager, and multitasking improvements. The absence of Undo/Redo on the Home Screen was one of those inconsistencies hard to justify for a device positioning itself as a computer replacement. With iPadOS 27 it is removed.