How To Reinstall Default Apps Deleted From IPhone Or IPad

Now that iPhone and iPad users can delete default apps from their iOS devices, you may find it important to know how to re-download those stock apps to reinstall them back onto your iOS device. Restoring deleted default apps is done largely the same way you would recover any other accidentally deleted app on an iPhone or iPad, achieved entirely through the App Store of iOS. If you’ve never gone through this process before it may sound intimidating, but once you run through the steps yourself you’ll find it’s quite simple. If you want to try this out yourself, delete any default preinstalled app from your iPhone or iPad, like the “Weather” app or “Music” app for example. A full list of default apps that can be deleted and restored is further below if you want shortcuts to the apps. The reinstalled default apps will appear on the device Home Screen as usual. Note that you’ll want to be sure you are downloading the correct default iOS app again to reinstall the intended app.

This is more important now that the App Store stuffs ads at the top of search results, along with the generally broad search results often appearing in the App Store for apps with similar purposes or even the same names. For example, there are multiple other music apps, but only one official “Music” app from Apple. To restore the proper default app, verify the app icon is the same as the default app on the iOS device, and that the developer of the app is Apple. You can also follow direct App Store links to the iOS default apps if you don’t want to bother with the Search function in the App Store of the device. Regardless of how you get to the default app, re-downloading it and restoring it to the device is the same. These URLs point directly to the App Store entries for the default stock apps in iOS that can be deleted and thus restored by re-downloading again. Whether or not you want to delete and then reinstall default apps is entirely up to you and how you use your iPhone or iPad. For example, maybe you want to delete the Music app to stop the annoying auto-playing car Bluetooth audio iPhone thing, or maybe because you’d prefer to use an alternative music service like Spotify. There are a few apps you can not re-download and reinstall, because they can not be deleted in the first place. That includes default apps like Settings, App Store, and Safari.

After moving the apps, and with the apps still wiggling, hold your finger against any one of the apps and move it on top of another app. The two apps will be moved into the same box, creating a folder. A large black box opens beneath the folder app, displaying the full-size icons of the apps in the folder. Continue dragging all of the apps on this page into the folder. With the black box displaying the full-size versions of the apps open, tap the "X" icon on the right side of the white bar at the top of the box to delete the existing folder name. Tap within the white box and then use the on-screen keyboard that appears to type "Miscellaneous" or some other inconspicuous and uninteresting folder name. Tap to grab the app you want to hide and then move it into the last position in the listing of apps. For example, if you have 12 apps, the app you want to hide should appear in the lower-right corner of the app folder box. Press "Home" to lock all of the apps in place and close the app folder.



Here's how to delete or hide unwanted apps from your iPhone or iPad - even Stocks, Calendar and other preinstalled Apple apps. Find the icon for the app you want to delete. Tap and hold the icon until it starts to jump around (this indicates that you are in Edit Mode). Tap the X that appears in the top-left corner of the unwanted app's icon. Confirm by tapping Delete. You can now delete further apps, move them around on the screen, or press the Home button to exit Edit Mode. Storage & iCloud Usage. In the top (Storage) section, choose Manage Storage. Your apps are listed in order of how much space they take up. Tap the one you want to delete. If it hasn't got an arrow next to it, you cannot delete it and tapping won't do anything. Repeat for any more apps you want to remove. Find the icon for the app you want to delete. Tap and hold the icon until it starts to jump around.