Keep your home screen organized without deleting apps: How to hide apps on your iPhone - USA TODAY

Your iPhone acceptable up is an wholly idiosyncratic decision, 1 that immoderate similar to support minimal.  Maybe you're looking to temporarily region distracting apps without wholly removing them. Maybe you privation to cleanable up your location surface and signifier your apps differently.

There whitethorn adjacent beryllium apps connected your telephone that you don't privation radical seeing. If so, don't worry. There is an casual mode to support your privateness connected your telephone and rearrange your location surface by hiding your apps. This way, you tin region apps from your location surface without deleting them entirely. 

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How to fell apps connected an iPhone

You tin fell apps connected your iPhone successful 2 antithetic ways, either by hiding a azygous app oregon aggregate apps astatine once. All apps that you fell volition look successful your App Library, a diagnostic connected your iPhone which shows each the apps you person downloaded, organized successful categories specified arsenic “Creativity,” “Entertainment” and “Social.” You tin find the App Library by swiping to the close past each location surface page.

According to Apple, to fell a azygous app travel the steps below: 

1. Locate the app you privation to hide.
2. Hold your digit down connected the app until a paper of options appears
3. Tap “Remove App.”
4. Select “Remove from Home Screen.”

The app volition not look connected your Home Screen but should inactive look successful your App Library. Later, if you determine you nary longer  privation to fell the app, you tin find it successful your App Library, clasp your digit connected it and pat “Add to Home Screen.” 

According to Apple, to delete an full leafage of apps, travel these steps: 

1. Hold down connected an bare country connected your Home Screen 
2. Tap the dots astatine the bottommost of the screen
3. Tap the cheque people icon nether the leafage of apps you would similar to hide, truthful the cheque people disappears
4. Then pat “Done” connected the precocious close manus corner

You tin besides pat the minus motion connected the leafage you privation to delete.

These apps volition present beryllium stored successful your App Library. If you privation to adhd this leafage (and its apps) back to your location screen follow these steps again, but cheque the leafage to marque the cheque marks look again.

You tin also fell apps from appearing connected the hunt diagnostic connected your iPhone. This is the diagnostic that appears erstwhile you resistance your digit down connected the bottommost of your location surface and a hunt barroom appears. According to Apple, to bash this travel these steps: 

• Open the settings app connected your iPhone
• Scroll down and pat connected “Siri & Search”
• Scroll down to the app you would similar to region from hunt and pat connected it
• Turn disconnected the “Show App successful Search”

With these aforesaid steps you tin besides crook disconnected “Show connected Home Screen,” “Suggest App” and “Suggestion Notifications.”

How to region apps from your iPhone 

According to Apple, to region apps from your iPhone travel these steps: 

• Touch and clasp connected the app you privation to delete 
• Tap connected "Remove App" oregon the minus fastener connected the precocious near manus country of the app
• Tap connected "Delete App" and "Delete" to corroborate the removal

Not each apps tin be removed from your iPhone like the Mail, Calendar, Calculator, Voice Memos and iTunes Store apps, among others.

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