How To: Secretely ‘Remove’ Apple Default Applications on iPhone
by Jody Mitoma on September 18, 2008 at 1:35 am
The first image of many from the tutorial.
The folks over at Macenstein have figured out a way to kinda-sorta remove the default Apple applications; eg. Mail, Weather, Maps, Safari, iTunes, ect. from the home page.
In reality you are not actually deleting the applications from the device, but simply hiding them instead.
Have a look at the full tutorial with images and step-by-step directions on how to do so, here.
How they do it, is they create a hidden 10th page of applications on the iPhone, then simply have the apps you no longer want visible ‘pushed’ off the face of the ear… iPhone. It’s not an official way in any sense at all, but it does the job for those who are eager to remove some of the default Apple applications.
(via Macenstein)
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September 18th, 2008 at 1:39 am
What the hell is the point? I use all of those apps barring the contacts one (having no friends helps!) and the phone (because I have an iPod Touch).
September 18th, 2008 at 1:44 am
The point? I don’t know. I’m not one for hiding any of the default icons. I use all of them (excluding the iTunes app) at _least_ once a month. I use notes once every two days or so, weather every morning, contacts everyday, safari every second day, settings at least once a week, app store at least once a week, youtube every so often, music, videos, and photos every day or two, calculator is nice to have when needed, calandar app at least once a week… oh, and I don’t use the clock app either, but it may be nice to have one day, thus I don’t want to delete it either.
Just sharing my discoveries with our viewers in case any of you are interested in doing something like this.
September 18th, 2008 at 8:03 am
Get it jailbroken and get Poof app. Simple.
September 18th, 2008 at 8:05 am
True, but not everyone has, or wants, a jailbroken device.
September 18th, 2008 at 12:06 pm
Figured out this trick long ago on my own.
September 18th, 2008 at 12:57 pm
Right on.
I would of never guessed this would work.
September 19th, 2008 at 2:54 am
I use the Notes app regularly as I’m a writer and it’s handy for jotting down ideas. I use the alarm frequently. (Despite it being crap.) In fact the only app I don’t use at least once a week is the contacts app.
December 30th, 2008 at 5:08 am
What a bunch of idiots you guys are. As a new convert to iphone I was expecting a friendly little community, but apparently not.
If the ‘hack’ is no good for you then just move along the bus, nothing to see here.
I found it interesting and whilst I won’t be doing it, at least I understand a bit more.
Am sick to death of hearing Jailbreak, Jailbreak, Jailbreak, Jailbreak, Jailbreak, Jailbreak, Jailbreak, Jailbreak, Jailbreak, Jailbreak, Jailbreak, Jailbreak, Jailbreak, Jailbreak, Jailbreak, Jailbreak, Jailbreak, Jailbreak, Jailbreak, Jailbreak, Jailbreak, Jailbreak, Jailbreak all the bleeding time.
December 30th, 2008 at 7:26 pm
@SirClive: (Spectrum fan, are you?
) Jailbreaking was a pretty massive of the iPhone and iPod Touch scene before the App Store. It plays a much lesser role in the scene now that the App Store is here, since the whole point of the jailbreak scene was to provide third party applications where Apple would not, but it still plays a lesser role now to allow the development and use of applications that can’t be developed legitemately through the iPhone SDK because of its restrictions.
There’s not a whole lot of news on the jailbreak scene these days because there’s not a lot happening on it that’s particularly newsworthy; jailbreaks for new firmware versions are mostly the biggest bits of news that turn up on that end of the scene these days, though there are some star jailbreak apps like Snapture, Winterboard, Cydia, Installer, and so on, that make the news from time to time.
The “friendly community” is still there if you know where to look; there are some communities that are a mixed bag or tend towards the younger audiences, but on the whole there are some good ones, too. We like to think we’ve got a fairly good, if small one here.
August 24th, 2009 at 6:18 am
I sent back a broken iPhone that I tried my best to return from the day I bought it. For whatever reasons, neither Att&t, nor Apple would take it back. I tried my best in telling them all the problems the phone was displaying. Anyways, phone would never back up, already came with a preset voicemail #, & other problems. I called a couple days ago, hoping someone could help me make a back up, then get my phone to take the new 3.0.1 update, being as I had not been able to update my phone since purchase cause it would crash my computer! Gave that up pretty quick. Bit I did want to use the new updates that came some stuff. The end of is, the girl did send me out a new iPhone ! Happy day! Until I read the tiny text that said of it had been properly used, jailbroken, or a
urging that wiped out the warranty, I get to pY
at them another $600.00′. I am tripping. Do u know anything to calm me? The phone did not appear to be jailbroke. I’m wondering if they played with at store, then sold it to me, cleaned up. Thanks,s
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February 2nd, 2010 at 9:38 am
For those people wanting to get rid of the damn default applications and recover some much needed space, this doesn’t really help. It’s not even a workaround. It’s the equivalent of covering your eyes with your hands and saying “Ner ner ner ner ner .. you can’t see me”.