How To Hide Apple's Native Apps On The IPhone And IPad

Your iPhone and iPad can get extremely cluttered with all of the stock Apple applications that, truthfully, none of us use. Frankly, it’s a shame they cannot be deleted outright to free up all of that extra storage space, however, there are ways to, at the very least, free up the real estate on your home screen. Apple will hopefully soon introduce a way to permanently get rid of these applications, giving users plenty of more storage space for things like photos or different apps. In the meantime, we have to work with what we have. Hiding your applications is fairly simple. Just hold down on the app you want to hide, and once they begin shaking, move it over another application you want to hide and drop. You’ve now created a folder to put all of your unwanted Apple apps. I simply titled the folder “Apple” to easily signify what it is. You can put as many unwanted Apple apps as you want in this folder. You can put other apps in there as well, but it may be hard to find them in the sea of Apple applications.

It’s been a long-standing request to be able to remove Apple’s stock applications from the iPhone or iPad, however, there’s some fairly good reasons as to why you can’t just get rid of them. It’s for the same reasons that you cannot get rid of much of the bloatware that comes with Android devices from Samsung, LG, and others. The reason is that many of these applications are embedding deep in the operating system. That said, if you were to remove one of the apps, a part of the operating system would malfunction. Some apps aren’t necessarily that bad, though. Other apps, say the iTunes Store, are pertinent to the information that Apple’s voice assistant, Siri, gives to the user. If the iTunes Store wasn’t there, Siri wouldn’t be able to provide that necessary information. That said, most of Apple’s applications all talk to each other in some way, making it rather difficult to let the user just delete applications. However, there might be some changes coming down the pipeline. Apple CEO Tim Cook recognizes that many users hide their native Apple apps in a folder or somewhere where they cannot be seen. It’s not that we want to suck up your real estate, we’re not motivated to do that,” Apple CEO Tim Cook told Buzzfeed. We want you to be happy. While it’s not a guarantee that anything will come of it, Tim Cook says his team is looking at the possibility. In that case, if it ever becomes available, deleting a native Apple app should be as easy as deleting any other application. However, you need to keep in mind that this could drastically change how Siri or your operating system functions. That is, unless Cook and Apple are trying to find a way to keep the native Apple apps integrated without them needing to be on the system.

With over 425,000 applications in existence for the iPhone and iPod Touch, many new owners of the Apple iPad will undoubtedly already possess a library of apps that they accumulated for use on the iPhone. Fortunately, you can sync your iPhone apps to the iPad using iTunes on your computer. Open iTunes on your computer. If you own an iPhone, chances are you already have an active iTunes account. If you don't have iTunes, you can download the latest version free at the Apple website. Connect the iPhone to your computer using the USB connector cable that came with the device. ITunes detects that the iPhone has been connected. The iPhone name appears under "Devices" in the left navigation column. Click on the name to open the syncing options and then click the sync button in the lower right corner. This backs up all your apps to iTunes. When the sync completes, detach the mobile device. Connect the iPad to your computer using the USB connector cable that came with the device. The iPad's name shows up under "Devices." Click it and select the "Apps" tab at the top of the main iTunes screen. Uncheck any applications that you do not wish to sync to your iPad. Choose the items you wish to sync and click "Apply" in the lower right corner. Your iPhone apps transfer to the iPad.

It doesn’t happen often, but there may be times when you really want to downgrade to the previous version of an iOS app or even older. For example, you just downloaded the latest update of your favorite app to your iPhone, but the new version crashes hard and often and the old version is no longer available in the App Store. Maybe it’s a really buggy version or maybe the new version doesn’t like your spiffy brand new iPhone. Are you out of luck until the fix is released, Here are four ways that you can try to downgrade back to a previous version of an app, including a very detailed way to access a back door to older apps in the App Store. These methods are not foolproof, but they’ll give you a chance at restoring a version of the app that will work on your device. You are backing your computer up, right,

If so, the easiest way to reinstall a previous version of an iOS app is to restore it from Time machine or other backup. In Time Machine for Mac OS, navigate back to the date of the last good version of the app you want to restore. Mobile Applications. Select and restore the app. Drag and drop the older version from your backup into your iTunes My Apps section. Replace” to revert back to the older (working) version. This method works if you regularly back up your iPhone or iPad to your computer using iTunes, but it only works if you haven’t updated your iTunes copy of the app. If your iTunes library has also been updated, you’ll need to try another method or wait until the developer releases a fix. If you downloaded a broken app update to your iPhone, do not update apps in iTunes yet. You’ll be using the old copy of the app that’s still stored in your iTunes library.