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How to delete an app that’s not visible on your iPhone Home Screen

2021 November 23
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Do you want to delete an app from your iPhone but can’t find it anywhere on the Home Screen? If yes, this brief guide shows you four ways to delete invisible apps from your iPhone or iPad. Doing this will declutter things and free up local storage. Here’s how.

App Library, with which you can hide apps from plain sight. After you press an app icon > Remove App > Remove from Home Screen, the app is moved to the App Library and visible there only. Not on the Home Screen.

  • If you go to Settings > Home Screen and select App Library Only, all new apps you download do not appear on the iPhone Home Screen. Their app icons are only visible inside the App Library.
  • In iOS 14 and above, if you hide the iPhone Home Screen pages, this naturally hides all the apps on this page.
  • The app may be hidden inside an app folder or on the second, third page inside the folder.
  • If you cannot see the apps on your iPhone Home Screen but still want to delete them, here’s how to do that.

    1. Delete an invisible app from Spotlight

    You can immediately find a hidden app using Spotlight Search and delete it from here.

    1. Swipe down on any Home Screen and type the app name.
    2. Long-press the app icon and tap Delete App > Delete.

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    4. Delete a hidden app from the App Store

    Using this method, you can delete only those apps that have a pending update or ones updated recently. Let us show you the steps.

    1. Open the App Store and tap your profile picture. You may also long-press the App Store icon and choose Updates.
    2. Scroll down and see if you find the app here. If not, pull down the updates screen to refresh it.
    3. If you see the app under “Available Updates” or “Updated Recently,” swipe left on its name and tap Delete.

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  • Source link: https://www.idownloadblog.com/2021/11/23/how-to-delete-hidden-app-from-iphone/

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