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If you’ve got an iPhone, then you’ll have a junk folder. The place where you store all the Apple apps you can’t actually delete, but would never use in a million years like Apple Maps. Unfortunately Newsstand won’t fit into that. But wait, you can now actually use Newsstand as your junk folder, no jailbreak required. Here’s how.
Of course, you’ll probably only want to do this if you don’t actually use Newsstand apps on your iPhone, which I certainly don’t. You’ll also need a bit of touch-screen foo to get this done right, but it is possible as the folks from iDownload Blog show above.
1 – Shove Newsstand on the second page of your home screen
2 – Sling the apps you want to junk on the third home screen page
3 – On the third page, tap the home screen button once and immediately grab the app you want to hide
4 – Hold the screen until you’re on the first page of the home screen
5 – Release your hold and swipe to the second home screen
6 – If the icons are wiggling, then just tap on the Newsstand folder to open it
7 – Hit the home button to close the folder, and hey presto, your app should be shoe-horned into Newsstand
Rinse and repeat for all the apps you want to hide (there’s no limit apparently), then shove Newsstand somewhere you’re not going to see it. Job done. One less junk folder messing up your perfect home screen alignment. Just don’t reboot your phone, OK? Otherwise all the apps will spawn back outside the Newsstand folder. [iDownloadBlog via SlashGear]
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So this incredibly obtuse method works until your phone needs a restart? You’ve just GOT to love iOS. Come on Apple, you seriously need to update iOS so the user can, you know, do more of what they want to do, not what you want them to do. Otherwise your market share will continue to slide to your competitors.
iOS on phones is at risk of becoming the next symbian unless major innovation comes soon.
You do understand this is a hack? As in it is neither supported or intended by Apple. Therefore you would expect it to reset when the phone restarts or syncs with iTunes.
You do understand this is a hack? As in Apple should allow users to hide apps they don’t want to see on their homescreens, like all major competitors, but they have to resort to this completely ridiculous method to fudge it?
I have complete clarity on this matter.
umm not just hide, remove, why the hell should you be forced to have apps you dont use eating up space on your device? (maybe i just dont understand, im not an apple person after all)
The deleting of a system app is prevented, most probably, so users don’t accidentally delete an app like Mail. As the iPhone is designed for lots of different demographics some stuff like that is locked out. It saves on support among other things. Safari / Webkit is OS level so deleting that would break any app which uses it to draw web views.
Then next time don’t complain that a hack is somehow the fault of the OS. Thats why its a hack.
Apple have a page where you can post a feature request if its something you really want, putting apps in the bookstore.
You utterly miss the point of my posts – why do you need to hack something that every other OS can do as standard? I am NOT complaining about the hack – I’m glad iOS users can at least hide their unwanted apps in some way, no matter how convoluted it is! I am saying the hack should not be needed. iOS sucks at this. It can be made better. I hope Apple make it better, for the sake of their users.
and the point is???????
News stand won’t go in a folder you say?
http://i179.photobucket.com/albums/w319/matth616/449993E5-E532-44DB-AE99-7167CC937881-6846-0000039A3A728B79.jpg
apps you cant delete? why do people put up with that kind of crap?
Can android users uninstall the native phone app? You can’t? Why do people put up with that kind of crap?
They’re core apps, literally less than 100kB of space each, not really like there’s a reason to.
actually i can, android is open source, i can do pretty much whatever the hell i want to it as long as im willing to take the time to make it happen, isnt open source wonderful!
It definitely is wonderful not to be able to make calls with your phone.
Open source is admittedly cool for a few things, but 99% of the time is a redundancy.
99%? really? my phone: custom kernel and android, tweaked by me, my tablet: custom kernel and android tweaked by me, my laptops: various versions of linux, again tweaked by me, my raspberry pi… you get the picture, there are few days that go by where im not utilizing some sort of code
manufacturers dont get everything right all the time, neither do software devs, sometimes they just dont do things to my liking so i change them, these simple to learn skills (coding, basic electronic theory, soldering etc) have helped me greatly over the years
and i never said stripping out the phone app was a good thing to do, you just put it out there as some impossible task which it certainly isnt, my point was simply that if we have the source code we can change pretty much anything as we see fit for our own needs
i don’t know how to put this…but you are not ‘most people’. the huge majority of people don’t care or don’t want that level of customisation. apple already know this, they cater for their market and seem to do incredibly well out of it.
i have both a raspberry pi and an iphone. it is a fact that doesn’t keep me up at night.
maybe im not, but it didnt take me that long to pick up those simple skills, its not rocket science, just a bit of reading. im a great believer in the idea that if youre going to use something you should understand how it works, at least at a basic level.
and i know apple do well out of those who dont care, they proved that when they sold a phone with a glaring hardware design fault, which people were totally aware of and still bought, so i suppose im not really surprised that their users are happy to live with the “my way or the highway” apple mentality
Not deleting phone and mail I get, they’re kinda key. There is no reason for Apple to not allow people to delete News stand or Face time for example, they could just be downloaded again from the App Store if required.
And it isn’t the space on the phone they take which is the annoyance. My home screen is super clean, I don’t want apps I don’t want and can’t delete messing it up!
They’ve done that with a few apps now e.g. iBooks and whilst I agree with you on newsstand, facetime is an integral part of iOS; anyone I know with an iOS device I can facetime, which saves me from having to tell grandma to install it, and I see no reason for anyone to uninstall it.
Newsstand is a cash-in for Apple, nothing else.
And with folders being able to shelter all my apps I’m not too bothered, but the ability to hide certain apps would be nice (but then I’d get a phone call from my grandma every day going “Help! I can’t find my browser, I think I hid it accidentally!”
> and I see no reason for anyone to uninstall it.
This is your personal preference. I keep all such junk on the first page of my iPad and keep everything I need on the second, which I use as my de-facto homepage as a result. I WOULD like to delete it.
Do you think no one would want to delete the Stocks app on iPhone? Surely that one is not integral to iOS.
I think the problem with allowing one to uninstall certain “core” apps but not others is that there would still be complaining to be done e.g. “Why can I uninstall stocks but not my mail app? Sparrow does it so much better” etc.
I had a girl in my class in high school who for the life of her couldn’t start up her iPhoto on her mac, it seemed like nothing would start it up again and it had just vanished from her computer; turned out she accidentally dragged it to her Trash.
Would it be nice to be able to uninstall everything for people like us who are well versed in what they want? Sure, and I’m definitely not arguing with you there. But I do see why certain companies make it this way.
what if grandma doesnt want to “facetime” with you? hence why she uninstalled it (hypothetically of course as you cant uninstall it)
My nana would never do that to me! You should be ashamed for even insinuating that!
Or this…?
http://www.cydiahacks.com/hide.html