“With iCloud, Apple has enabled people to re-download their iTunes purchases such as apps, e-books, movies and television shows, free of charge and as many times as needed. The relaxed policy brought the new Purchased tab in both desktop iTunes, Mac App Store and iOS storefronts, such as iTunes Store, App Store, iBook Store, iTunes Tone Store and Newsstand Store,” Christian Zibreg reports for 9to5Mac.
“If you’re like me, you download too many apps each and every day, basically to try out and ultimately remove the vast majority of items after a couple runs,” Zibreg reports. “Unfortunately, each download is automatically added to your Purchased list, no exception – even if you never run the program. Wouldn’t it be nice if you could hide individual purchased items from view? Well, now you can and it’s real simple…”
The answer to your prayers is in the full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Joe Architect” for the heads up.]
This is pretty simple to do. Its very helpful to delete those tried only once apps.
THANK YOU!
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For me it’s EXTREMLY slow to hide one app…. Very annoying.
May be slow, but SO glad it’s there now.
I am too but I have maybe a couple hundred I want to rid of, due to two people using the same account. *sigh* going to be a long weekend….
you can do it in iTunes on your Mac/PC also.
This is very useful. Many thanks!
just a FYI, you can also do this in iTunes now!
not sure if the link shows you or not, but you will see a “purchased” link on the right side of iTunes, under quick links.
hover over the app, and you’ll see an X bubble.
Have to say THANK YOU again to apple for this. 😉