Unlike Android which is open and gives users a full control over their phone, iOS has certain restrictions where it is not possible to do tasks like changing icon pack, font and more. Apple claims that it is taking these steps to better connect the ecosystem and protect the privacy of users from any sorts of phishing attacks. However, digging deep into the iOS settings presents you with some pretty neat tricks that can come in handy and one such feature is the ability to hide apps, while you cannot hide apps individually, you can put layers on what kind of apps that you wish to hide.
In this article today, we will show you how you can hide apps on the iPhone running on iOS. Though it isn’t anything new, it might be sitting in the settings without anyone noticing. So, let’s get started.
Here’s How to Hide Apps on iPhone:
- Turn on your iPhone and then head over to the settings app and then open the “Screen Time”. Here, tap on the “Content & Privacy Restrictions” setting.
- In this page, you will be asked to create a password like you usually do, and on the next screen enable the “Content & Privacy” option.
- Once you enter the passcode and open the setting, in this section, if you wish to hide default apps, tap on the “Allowed Apps” option. Now, disable the apps that you don’t want to appear on the home screen from the list of apps presented.
- Now to hide third-party apps, go back, and tap on “Content Restriction.” Now it will display a lot of things which you can restrict on your iPhone. You can restrict the apps type including music, podcasts, movies, books, and more that are available to the user.
- Since we are focusing on hiding apps, you will need to tap on “Apps” and once the page opens, you will by default see “Allow All Apps” option is selected.
- Here, you can select “Don’t allow any apps” which is the first option on the page. It will also let you hide apps based on age-restriction like tapping on the “9+” option will hide all the apps that require the user to be 9 years or above. Choose either of the options and the setting will be applied.
Conclusion: This is how you can hide apps on your iPhone or any device that is running iOS. It is a neat trick to hide apps that might be sensitive to have on your phone if you have kids at home. While the presentation of the feature might have changed a little in the latest iOS version, the underlying functionality remains the same. So, do try out this feature and let us know how useful was this trick for you.
