How to Hide Apps on an iPhone

When you know how to hide apps on the iPhone, you can keep the ones you rarely use out of sight and make your home screen more manageable.

There's nothing more frustrating than an iPhone with a cluttered, disorganized home screen. A handy iOS feature allows you to hide apps from view without deleting them, making it easy to clean up your home screen and conceal any embarrassing apps you don't want others to see. One of the most useful iPhone tricks is the ability to hide apps, and we'll show you how to do that now. How to better manage your iPhone's app library is yet another useful iPhone hack.

How to hide apps on iPhone

It's easy to hide apps on an iPhone, whether you want to hide a dating app or a game you're too old to play. Follow these instructions to get rid of apps from your home screen without actually deleting them. Here's what you can do to make room on your phone if you've installed too many apps.

1. Start by making a folder by tapping and holding an app, then dragging it on top of another app. Approval to launch should follow confirmation that the target folder has been successfully created. You're free to put as many programs as you like in that folder. After you make a new folder, your phone will give it a default name; if you don't like it, you can change it by tapping the label at the top of the folder.
2. To conceal an application, simply drop it into the new folder you made. In the same way you did to make the folder in the previous step, tap and hold the app and drag it into the new folder.
3. To conceal multiple programs, simply add them by dragging their icons into the folder.
4. Then, navigate to the appropriate folder and start holding the app's icon until it disappears. Holding your finger there, move it to the folder's right side. You can expect to see your app relocate to a new subfolder after a new page has been added to the folder. To keep the app on the second page of the folder, release it.
5. To conceal additional apps, simply repeat step 4. Multiple dots will appear at the screen's bottom as new pages are added to your folder. Each of the dots represents a page in your folder, and swiping to the right or left will take you to the next or previous page.
6. Once you do that, only the apps that are on the first page of the folder will be shown when you return to the home screen.

How to hide apps with the new iOS 14 update

The most recent update from Apple allows you to conceal entire app pages, making for a more minimalistic and organized iPhone interface.

1. Select a blank area of the screen and press and hold down on it.
2. Click the app page dot icons at the bottom of the screen when the widgets begin to jiggle. Then you'll be able to see the home screens for each of your apps.
3. To temporarily hide a page from the app, uncheck the circle next to it by clicking on it.
4. Whenever you're finished making adjustments, select Done from the menu.

If you've ever wanted to know how to hide apps on an iPhone, now you know how. The app's page will no longer appear when you swipe through your home screen's pages. If you change your mind at any point, you can reverse this feature by repeating the steps above and checking off the app page that was hidden. In addition to rearranging the apps within the folder, you can move them out of the folder entirely.

There is more than one way to keep the information on your smartphone secret from others besides just hiding apps. Find out how to protect your iPhone's apps and get the facts about WhatsApp's security below.

How to find hidden apps on iPhone

Do you need to access a previously concealed iPhone app? By following the steps below, you can quickly find any app, regardless of whether it is in a folder or the App Library.

1. To access the Search function on an iPhone, simply swipe left from the home screen. Simply enter the app's name into the Search field. Tap the app's icon when it appears.
2. As an alternative, you can ask Siri to launch the app for you. Siri's voice command feature can be activated by holding down the Side button, at which point you can say "Open [app name]" to launch the specified application. If you ask Siri to do so, she will locate and launch the appropriate application.
3. You can use the App Library to find the secret app if you can't find it using a simple search. To get to the App Library, swipe left from the home screen. You can then either search for the app by its name or navigate to the appropriate section.

Seeing as how you now know how to hide apps on an iPhone, it's time to learn how to hide messages on an iPhone and view (and delete) your iPhone call history to ensure that your conversations remain private.