The application catalog for iPhone it is quite extensive. There are applications of all kinds: games, productivity, social networks, etc. And among all that catalog you may want hide an app on iPhone. Now, you must do it well so as not to leave a trace of it for others.
Hiding an app on the iPhone is not a difficult task. What's more, it won't even be necessary to uninstall and install each time. Here we go to teach how to hide an app on iPhone and thus stop being visible to others. Of course, we warn you that the app will still be installed and visible in some section of your iPhone. But we will tell you this below.
Hide an app on the iPhone without leaving a trace on the home screen
As we have mentioned before, in this article we are going to explain how to hide an app on the iPhone. This means that although the app will still be installed, the app icon will not appear on the home screen of the Apple device. But for this, you will have to exclude any notification of it, in addition to making its icon disappear from the home screen. In this way, no person -except you- will know that this app is installed on your computer.
Let's go on to detail the steps you must carry out. The first thing you should do is know which of the apps you have installed on your iPhone are going to disappear from your home screen. What's more, for this method you will not have a limit of applications to hide.
- Once you have decided which applications are going to disappear from your computer, long press on the corresponding app icon on the home screen
- In the floating menu that will appear, choose the option 'Delete app'
- After this selection, you will have several options. In your case, you must choose the one that indicates 'Remove from home screen'
- Once this option is chosen, you can check that the corresponding icon has disappeared of your iPhone
Don't just hide the app icon, notifications should also be removed
Now, the worst that can happen to you if you only stay in the previous steps is that some kind of unwanted notification arrives from the app that you have just hidden; All efforts will have been unnecessary. Therefore, once you have followed the steps above, you also you will need to remove all traces of future unwanted notifications.
- Go to 'Settings' from the iPhone
- In section 'Notifications', search for the application that you have hidden and enter inside
- Among all the options that you can surely see, you should only disable the first one 'Allow notifications'
Ready. Right now the application that you have hidden on the iPhone is already invisible to others. Although as we warned you at the beginning of the article, this app -or apps- will always be available in your device's app library. That is, to that section that you will find by sliding your home screen(s) to the left completely. Doing a small search with the name of the deleted app, it will appear on the scene.
Don't let Search Engine or Siri find the hidden app
Another thing that you should take into account when hiding an app on the iPhone is not to forget the option to hide them from team searches and, above all, from our virtual companion 'Siri'. To prevent someone from finding such applications, we must indicate to our iPhone that we do not want -expressly- that they appear in searches. So let's proceed:
- We came in 'Settings' from the iPhone
- We look for the option that tells us 'Siri and Search' and we entered it
- It will be time to look for the app that we have hidden. For it, slide to the end of the screen and you should get to where the list of applications that we have installed on the iPhone begins
- Search for the app that interests you and click on it to enter its personal menu
- Once inside you must disable all search options of the application
Carrying out all these steps will prevent that when Siri is asked or a search is made on the iPhone for the hidden app, it does not appear in the results offered.
Remember that you can delete any app without having to pay for it again
Lastly, remind you that any app you download -and pay for it- can be completely deleted. The most common reason is to avoid collapsing the internal storage space and thus have more free space. However, you should keep in mind that the payment for said application is already registered in the Apple purchase history. And if you later decide to download it again on your iPhone -or iPad-, you won't have to pay for it again; the system itself will offer you the download option without going through the checkout. It is, perhaps, another option to remove applications from your smartphone, although somewhat more tedious to be used regularly.