5 ways to hide apps on iPhone 5f3gu

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With the arrival of iOS 16, there are new ways to hide apps on iPhone. All of them involve only natural resources of the system, check it out!

iOS 16 is now available to those who have the iPhone 8 onwards, and there is still a question that can hover over many people's lives: how to hide apps in iPhone? Today we are going to show you five different ways to hide apps that you prefer to keep away from the curious—or children, for example. All examples will be suggested using resources from the iPhone, without the need for a third-party application to do so. Come on? 3h4q2a

Using the App Library 106g4j

Added in iOS 14, App Library is a placeholder for you to search all the apps that have already been ed on your device. See how to hide apps No. iPhone from App Library:

1. Lightly press the application you want to hide and when the options appear, select “Remove App";

Tutorial on how to hide apps on iPhone.
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2. In the following options, select the middle option, “Remove from Home Screen";

Tutorial on how to hide apps on iPhone.
Reproduction: Lucas Gomes, Showmetech

This will cause the app icon to be erased from the start screen but still remain normally on the screen. App Library. To access it again, just search for it in the Search bar, or drag to the left until the end, where the App Library.

Hiding an entire page of apps 3hy5b

Now if you're looking for a way to hide multiple apps, then hiding an entire page from the apps home screen might be just what you're looking for. Before following the steps below, drag the apps you want to hide to their own page from the home screen. Then follow the following guidelines to know how to hide apps No. iPhone of a full page:

1. Press anywhere on the screen other than an application icon. Once the icons start to flicker, select the bottom bar with dots — each dot represents a page with applications;

Tutorial on how to hide apps on iPhone.
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2. At this point you will see all the existing application pages in the iPhone. To hide one of these pages completely, simply select the ball in the bottom corner of each page. To resume access to that page, just do the same process.

Tutorial on how to hide apps on iPhone.
Reproduction: Lucas Gomes, Showmetech

Hiding apps from Smart Search and Suggestions 695a34

The function of iPhone Search lets you search for apps or any content on your device from one place, while Smart Suggestions use learning from Crab to suggest apps based on your usage patterns. This can cause a hidden app to appear in search results or suggestions when you'd rather not see it. If you use this method, someone determined to tinker with your iPhone you can still find your hidden apps by searching the App Library. However, taking these steps will help to further hide what you prefer to be hidden. see how hide apps from iPhone Search and Smart Suggestions:

1. Open the application “Settings“, with gear icon;

Tutorial on how to hide apps on iPhone.
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2. Scroll down a bit and select “Siri and Search";

Tutorial on how to hide apps on iPhone.
Reproduction: Lucas Gomes, Showmetech

2. Find which app you want to hide and select it;

Tutorial on how to hide apps on iPhone.
Reproduction: Lucas Gomes, Showmetech

In "When searching“, the application stops appearing in searches, as well as the other options prevent the application from being detected by the device's artificial intelligence — that is, by disabling all buttons, the application cannot be searched or suggested. ing that the orientation indicates the hiding of a single application, if you want in others, it is necessary to repeat these steps for each application.

Hiding apps from the App Store purchase history 5pd8

if you have the Family Sharing enabled, anyone in your Family Group will be able to view and the apps you've purchased and ed. If you want to keep some of your apps private, you can hide them from the App Store purchase history. But this isn't perpetual: you can always find hidden in-app purchases any other time you need them. Check it out below.

1. Open the application “App Store“, a blue icon with a kind of white “A”. Now tap on the image in the upper right corner;

Tutorial on how to hide apps on iPhone.
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2. Select “Purchases";

Tutorial on how to hide apps on iPhone.
Reproduction: Lucas Gomes, Showmetech

3. A list will appear containing all the applications that have already been ed by this — not necessarily on this device. When you find the app you want to hide from this list, drag it to the left and select “Hide“. This procedure cannot hide signatures that occur within the application, only the of the apps themselves.

Tutorial on how to hide apps on iPhone.
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Hiding apps in folders 131i6f

And our last suggestion is one of the simplest methods of hiding apps No. iPhone: using the folders that gather the applications on the home screen. Take a look:

1. Press anywhere on the screen — which not either on top of an app icon — and as soon as the apps start to shake, drag the app you want to hide to some folder;

Tutorial on how to hide apps on iPhone.
Reproduction: Lucas Gomes, Showmetech

2. Once the folder opens with the application selected, drag it to the right edge of the folder, until another folder page appears. Drop there;

Tutorial on how to hide apps on iPhone.
Reproduction: Lucas Gomes, Showmetech

3. This way, the apps on the first page will be displayed, while the apps on the other pages are a little more hidden.

Tutorial on how to hide apps on iPhone.
Reproduction: Lucas Gomes, Showmetech

What did you think of our suggestions? helped you or will help you to hide apps No. iPhone? Tell us in the comments!

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