This could simply be a result of Apple switching to a responsive layout system with iOS6. This correlates with the new automatic layouts you can create in Inter

This could simply be a result of Apple switching to a responsive layout system with iOS6. This correlates with the new automatic layouts you can create in Interface Builder (if you're the sort to use it, and which themselves could correlate with an increasing screen size ;)) There have been as many icon layout changes as there have been major iOS versions - at least, within SpringBoard itself. I'll gladly eat my doubt if they do end up making the screen taller. As an aside, did it bother anybody else that the author put the vertical pixel count before the horizontal count?