“YouTube user videosdebarraquito has discovered iOS 9.2 has the ability to, quite literally, make unwanted apps disappear,” Gordon Kelly reports for Forbes. “He has detailed the steps in the video below but the steps are as follows.”
1. Move the unwanted apps to a new folder (it doesn’t have to be called ‘Disappear’)
2. Drag each one as far right in the folder as possible
3. While the app is still held under your finger tap the Home button
“This magically causes the app to disappear and the trick can be repeated for every app in the folder,” Kelly reports. “Once they have all gone and you exit the folder it too will disappear.”
Full article here.
MacDailyNews Note: As noted by “videosdebarraquito,” the hidden apps remain accessible from Spotlight Search and return to view when restarting your iDevice.
Interesting but not worth it,
Agree. Too much hassle to have to repeat each time it’s rebooted.
So . . . not a story?
Big deal! Just cram them all into a folder, and move the folder to another screen. Problem solved. This is what I’ve been doing since the first version of iOS that let us move apps to another screen.
Hey. Lots of irritation here for a little trick you don’t have to use. If you don’t like the temporary disappearing act, don’t use it. But to complain about it doesn’t make much sense. I might not use it either, but I like knowing about it.
Now if I could just kill Photos in El Capitan.
News/Tips apps. gone from view.
Can’t you just delete them? That will “disappear them permanently”. Kapeesh?
The apps you *can’t* delete, like News/Tips.. this is what the little trick is for.
It is actually a bug. There is still no way to delete IOS bloat from you homescreens.
It is amazing that we still are not given proper control over these things. Mind you I love the News App.
Interesting idea, but here’s a simpler that I use:
1. Move all the unwanted apps to the farthest right-hand screen.
2. Organise this junk into folders, if you like.
3. Don’t go to that screen…unless you have to, of course!
This trick don’t work. My iPhone restarts itself and those apps are right back on my screen.