How to Hide Apps on iPhone: 4 Tricks You Need to Know

How to hide individual apps on iPhone 

Let’s start with the basics, shall we? If you want to cloak a single app from prying eyes, follow these steps:

1. Tap and hold the app you want to hide.

2. Select “Remove App” and then “Remove from Home Screen”.

3. The app will now be visible only in the App Library.

Ta-da! You’ve just made an app disappear.

Read also: How to make your phone impossible to track? 

Where do hidden apps go? How to see hidden apps on iPhone

When you hide an app on your iPhone, don’t worry, it’s not gone forever — it’s just chilling in the App Library, waiting for your command.

App Library is like a well-organized list of all your iPhone apps. To unveil this treasure trove, swipe all the way to the right on your home screen, past all your pages. You’ll know you’ve struck gold when you see a bunch of app squares without names and a handy search bar that says App Library.

When you need to use a hidden app, simply open it from there.

But wait, there’s more! In addition to the App Library, you can uncover hidden apps by swiping down on your home screen and using the trusty search bar.

How to put app back on home screen

Hiding an iPhone app won’t delete any of its data, and you can unhide it at any time. Here’s how: 

1. Go to the Home Screen and swipe left until you reach the App Library.
2. Find the app you’ve hidden, tap and hold it.
3. Now, you have two options: Drag it to your desired location or choose Add to Home Screen.

How to hide a whole page of apps

If you’re feeling bold and want to vanish a whole page of apps, you’re in for a treat. 

Here’s how to hide a page of apps on your home screen: 

1. Long-press anywhere on the home screen.
2. Type the dots that appear on the bottom.
3. Uncheck the pages you want to hide.
4. Hit Done in the upper right corner.  

The page won’t disappear from this menu when unchecked, but to make it reappear, just check the circle under the page.

Need extra privacy? Check out the following way to make apps invisible on iPhone. 

How to hide apps from iPhone search and suggestions

If you want to prevent anyone from snooping around your device and searching for a specific app, you can hide icons on iPhone using Siri & Search:

1. Go to Settings and tap on Siri & Search.
2. Find the app you want to hide and select it.
3. To hide the app and its content from search, turn off Show App in Search.
4. For extra stealth, disable Suggest App and Suggestion Notifications.
5. To banish the app from your iPhone Home Screen, toggle off Show on Home Screen.

How to stop notifications for hidden apps

You can choose another way, hiding apps and stopping app notifications at the same time:

1. Create a Focus mode in Settings > Focus.
2. Create a new Focus mode by tapping the ‘+’ sign.
3. Select Custom and give your Focus mode a name. 

4. Tap Next > Customise Focus. 

Done! That’s how you hide apps in focus mode on iOS.

Hide notifications from specific apps or people:

1. Tap Apps > Silence Notifications From.
2. Choose apps from which you don’t want to get notifications. 
3. Check out Allow Notifications From and uncheck needed apps.

Select which apps you want to display:

1. Under Customise Screens, go to Choose Home Screen Page.
2. Choose which pages you want to include on your home screen. For example, choose the first page only. This means that when you enable this Focus mode, only this page will be available to view. 

3. Go back to the Control Center, tap Focus, and enable your Focus mode.

So there you have it. Whether you’re safeguarding private info or tidying up your home screen, hiding iPhone apps is an easy way to stay organized and keep your privacy intact.

Just remember, if you remove the app from the home screen or search, it still remains in the App Library. To remove it from there, you need to delete the app completely.  

How to hide your online location and activity

And for the grand finale, if you’re serious about iPhone privacy, consider using a VPN for iOS. Why? Well, a VPN offers two awesome perks:

• New location. It gives you a new IP address (your “home address” online), so you can virtually teleport anywhere online. 
• Data protection. It wraps your data in an encryption cloak, keeping you safe from snoopers and hackers.

Read also: What is a VPN on an iPhone?

Ready to level up your iPhone experience? Check out our article on how to set up a VPN on an iPhone. After all, who doesn’t love a little extra online security?

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