How To Hide Apps On The IPhone & IPad

Want to hide an app or two from appearing on the iOS home screen, Maybe you want to hide all apps downloaded from the App Store, but keep the defaults visible, Or maybe you just want to hide a stock app that shipped with your iPhone or iPad like Safari or iTunes, You can do all of the above or any of the above, and none of it requires any funky tweaks or downloads to perform. It turns out that hiding any type of app is really easy in iOS. These tricks work in all versions of iOS. Note the apps aren’t deleted and they aren’t uninstalled in any of these processes, they are just hidden from view. Uninstalling apps is easy and fast, but completely separate. This trick will hide any app that comes preinstalled on iOS. Return to the home screen to discover the apps you toggled to OFF to no longer be visible.

They are still installed on the device, they are simply hidden from the user without going back to Restrictions and toggling them ON again. Go back to the home screen and you’ll discover all apps downloaded from the App Store are missing, even those from Apple. Again, they aren’t deleted from the iPhone or iPad, they are simply hidden from view until the App Restrictions are set to “All” again. This is also a decent trick to use if you want to quickly hand your iOS device off to someone else and don’t want them having access to seeing personal data contained within some apps. Important Note: Toggling the “Hide All” option ON and OFF and ON again will reset the Home Screen icon arrangements, and any apps contained in folders will be pulled out of their folders. Be aware of this, but remember that you can easily restore your old Home Screen layout by resyncing with iTunes or iCloud (thanks to Dave, Dean, and Matt for clarifying this).