iPhone apps: How to uninstall iPhone apps

After buying your first iPhone, you immediately started downloading tons of applications that you thought might be useful to you. After a few days, however, you realized that, in addition to significantly reducing the storage space available on your device, many of the apps that you initially thought might be interesting are now no longer so, at least not for you. Consequently, now you would like to uninstall the iPhone apps but, being new to the Apple world, you don’t have a clue how to do it.

What do you say? The situation is precisely this and would you like to understand if I can help you? Of course yes, do not worry. With today’s guide, in fact, I will illustrate, step by step, all the operations that it is necessary to carry out to succeed in the enterprise. I anticipate immediately that this is feasible in various ways and that, contrary to appearances, the procedure to be implemented is anything but complicated, even for those who, a bit like you, do not consider themselves a great expert in new technologies. .

Then? May I know what are you still doing standing there? Position yourself comfortably, take your “iPhone by” and immediately begin to put into practice the instructions you find below. I am sure that, in the end, you will be able to tell yourself very happy and satisfied with what you have learned, as well as, of course, that you have finally succeeded in your intent. What do you say, we bet?

How to uninstall iPhone apps from home screen and App Library

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To begin with, let’s find out how to uninstall iPhone apps acting from the home screen and the App Library.

So, first, take your Apple smartphone, unlock it and access the home screen, then locate the app icon you want to get rid of, press on it with your finger and continue holding for a few seconds, select the option Remove the app from the menu that opens and tap the button Delete app to confirm your intentions.

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Is the application you want to remove not found on the home screen but in the App Library? Then access the latter by swiping from right to left on the last page of the home screen, then locate the app icon of your interest (if you deem it necessary, you can help you with the subdivision into categories of the App library) and press on it with your finger and continue to hold for a few seconds, select the option Delete the app from the menu that opens and confirm your intentions by pressing the button Delete.

You don’t want to permanently remove a certain application but just want to make it disappear from the home screen, transferring it to the App Library? This can also be done but, keep in mind, it won’t allow you to free up storage space on the iPhone. In any case, to do this, press on the application icon present on the home screen and continue to hold down for a few seconds, select the item Remove the app from the menu that opens, and then press the button Remove from the home screen.

How to uninstall iPhone apps from Settings

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You can uninstall apps on your iPhone by going to take action as well from the settings of iOS. How do you do it? I’ll explain it to you right away.

First, select the icon of Settings (the one in the shape of a gear wheel) that you find on the home screen and/or in the app Library, tap on the item General present in the new screen that is shown to you, and then on that Space iPhone.

After completing the above steps, the complete list of all applications and related data that are taking up the most space on your iPhone memory will open. The apps at the top of the list are the “bulky” ones.

Therefore, identify the app you want to remove and select its first name (if necessary, you can help you find it by clicking on the icon with the magnifying glass located at the top right and typing the name of the app in the search field that appears), then touch the wording Delete app twice in a row.

Do you want to remove a specific application without deleting its documents and data? It can be done! To do this, just select the option Uninstall app twice from the above screen.

How to uninstall iPhone apps automatically

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If you want to avoid having to uninstall apps on the iPhone in a “manual” way, you can possibly decide to enable a special iOS function that allows you to remove automatically less used applications, while leaving any related documents and data on the device.

If you are interested in this, you can enable the aforementioned functionality by tapping on the icon Settings (the one in the shape of a gear wheel) present on the home screen and/or in the App Library, by selecting the item App Store present in the new screen displayed and bringing up ON the switch located next to the option Remove apps you don’t use And that’s it.

In addition to as I just indicated, you can enable the function for the automatic removal of apps by selecting the item General in the main screen of Settings of iOS, then tapping on the wording Space iPhone and touching the link Ability that you find next to the item Remove apps you don’t use in the section Advice which is located at the top.

How to uninstall iPhone apps from computer

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You are wondering if it is possible to uninstall apps on iPhone by taking action as well from the computer? The answer is unfortunately no. In the past this was feasible, but at the time of writing this tutorial, this is no longer an Apple option. But what you can do is remove any files associated with any apps that may be on your iPhone, which can come in handy if you wanted to remove specific apps because you wanted to get rid of the data associated with them.

To perform the operation described above, if you have a computer Windows you can avail of the use of iTunes, the official Apple program dedicated to managing the multimedia library and iOS and iPadOS devices. If on your PC you have not yet downloaded and installed it, proceed to do so in advance, following the instructions I have provided in my guide on the topic.

On macOS the other hand, there is no need to download and install any software, as everything needed to manage iPhone and iPad from a computer is already present on the operating system. In this case, however, iTunes is not available, which has been eliminated from the “stock” Mac programs since operating system version 10.15 (Catalina). However, its management and synchronization features have been “incorporated” into a specific section of the Finder file manager of the “bitten apple” operating system.

That said, to uninstall the apps on the iPhone from a computer, first of all, connect the “iPhone by” to the PC or Mac, using the Lightning cable supplied, then wait for the iTunes or Finder window to open. If this does not happen, you can do it by selecting the connection to iTunes that you find in the Start menu Windows or the icon Finder (the one with the smiling face) that you find on the Dock bar of macOS.

If this is the first time you connect the iPhone to the computer, also authorize the thing by selecting the device icon which is on the left and clicking the button Authorize appeared on the iTunes or Finder screen. Next, unlock the iPhone, tap on the item Authorize in response to the warning you see appearing on the display, and type the unlock code of the Apple smartphone.

At this point, access the section File (on iTunes you will find the relevant item in the left lateral menu, while in the Finder it is placed at the top), select the data of the apps you want to remove from the list that is proposed to you, right-click on it, choose the item Delete from the context menu, confirm your intentions by pressing the button Delete in response to the notice that appears on the desktop and that’s it.

Afterward, remember to disconnect the iPhone from the computer by clicking the button Eject that you find at the iPhone icons in the left part of the iTunes window or in the Finder window and then disconnecting the device cable from the computer.

How to uninstall paid iPhone apps

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You had downloaded some paid apps and now would you like to understand how to uninstall them? I inform you that you can do it by implementing the same procedures that I have already explained to you in the previous lines, then by acting from the home screen and App Library, from the iOS settings, automatically And from computer absolutely nothing changes and, I’ll tell you more, the fact of going to remove them it does not in any way imply having to lose the purchase made.

All the applications purchased, in fact, remain linked to the Apple ID with which they were bought. As a result, they can be removed from the iPhone just like any other free app but, if necessary, they can also be downloaded again, as I explained to you in my guide on the topic, without having to pay all over again. The only case in which it is not possible to proceed again with the download of the purchased apps that have been uninstalled is when they are no longer available on the App Store.

The speech changes, however, for the subscription app. To check the subscriptions in progress and eventually deactivate them, go to the section Settings> [tuo nome] > Subscriptions of iOS.

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