How to make iOS 9's default apps disappear
While Apple is still working on an official method of dealing with unwanted default apps in iOS, a glitch in iOS 9 through 9.2 will let people temporarily push them out of sight.
As seen in the video below, users have to move the unwanted apps into a folder, and then drag them as far to the right as possible, beyond any and all of the folder's tabs. With an app still suspended "mid-air," hitting the Home button simultaneously will cause it to vanish.
Apps hidden this way aren't permanently deleted -- instead, they return only once an iOS device is rebooted. Simply putting a device to sleep leaves them invisible.
Another trick will permanently conceal apps by way of invisible folders, but this involves a more complex set of steps, and using gray wallpaper to complete the illusion.
In September, Apple CEO Tim Cook said that the company is working on a way of removing some default apps. Other apps may have to remain however, as they're connected to critical iOS functions.
As seen in the video below, users have to move the unwanted apps into a folder, and then drag them as far to the right as possible, beyond any and all of the folder's tabs. With an app still suspended "mid-air," hitting the Home button simultaneously will cause it to vanish.
Apps hidden this way aren't permanently deleted -- instead, they return only once an iOS device is rebooted. Simply putting a device to sleep leaves them invisible.
Another trick will permanently conceal apps by way of invisible folders, but this involves a more complex set of steps, and using gray wallpaper to complete the illusion.
In September, Apple CEO Tim Cook said that the company is working on a way of removing some default apps. Other apps may have to remain however, as they're connected to critical iOS functions.
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Also, I can't think of a single week (certainly not a month), that I haven't had to reboot my phone at least once. Add that to the multiple OS updates each year and you will be performing this nonsense at least a couple of dozen times a year. For what? One would have to be crazy obsessive to do this, and keep it up.
For a company that prides itself on having no adware in macs, it is surprising they have these in iOS. I couldnt give give a stuff personally, they all live maintenance free in a folder called 'useless' on the last home screen, where I forget they exist.
It's definitely not as bad as iOS which has even more adverts for Apple services, but they are there in OS X already.
There has also been a few times lately when all this stuff is reset with an OS update (against the users wishes), to ensure that everyone sees the adverts at least a couple of times. It's only a matter of time before we see car adverts too I suppose.
I was all ready to go to Android. But now that I can hide these apps, maybe I stick around after all.
The same goes for iOS. Again, I rarely use the app store and usually only to get updates to the apps I have loaded.
so not everyone is seeing what you are.
I think YMMV is very appropriate here.
Now getting full screen ads when you launch the App Store? That's BS and really concerning that the executive team didn't think it was a bad idea.
Every update to iOS since the Beats acquisition also resets the Music App so that it asks you if you want to join Apple Music one more time when you open it, just as every update to iTunes presents the user with a brief advert/choice to yet again enable Apple Music. Also as I said, 2 out of five (40%) of the tabs in iTunes deal with Apple Music, even if you have expressly disabled it. You have to dig into the settings to turn those tabs off after you decline the Apple Music advert.
Additionally, the Spotlight Search page in iOS is essentially ALL advertisements ("Spotlight Suggestions"). The entire purpose of that page is to show you adverts for Apps and Services. If you go by a known Starbucks location for instance the Starbucks App will pop up there etc. It also surfaces recently used Apps with the suggestion that you might want to use them again etc. The premise there is that it's merely location/context aware information, but that's really a bit of a dodge to anyone who actually thinks about it for a second or two. These are adverts.
These are all clear advertisements for Apple's and Apple's partners own services, right in the OSs'. There is simply no denying it.
Basically everything in Microsoft's bag of tricks from 1995, is now in Apple's OS's. The verbosity, the trickery, and the promotion of their own products and services to the detriment (and sometimes exclusion) of others, etc. We have just collectively changed our minds about these things being nefarious and "bad" and now we say we like them (supposedly). It's all very 21st century don't you know.