How does one remove an app from the iphone?

[Tom G.]

I do not just mean turn off its icon by using the iTunes sync page, I mean to even remove it from that page so that it is like it was never there. I have several free apps that I have decided I don't want, and would like to totally remove them.

Thank you for any info,

 

[TuffLuffJimmy]

Deleting Applications
You can delete applications you’ve installed from the App Store. If you delete an application, data associated with the application will no longer be available to iPhone, even if you reinstall the application.

You can reinstall any application and any associated data from your iTunes library as long as you backed up the application by syncing it to your computer. If you try to delete an application that hasn’t been backed up to your computer, an alert appears.

Delete an App Store application:
Touch and hold any application icon on the Home screen until the icons start to wiggle.

Tap in the corner of the application you want to delete.

Tap Delete, then press the Home button to save your arrangement.

To overwrite the data associated with an application, use “Erase All Content and Settings” in iPhone settings. See Resetting iPhone.

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[-aggie-]

If I understand you correctly as to what you want to do, just click and hold on one of the icons until they start jiggling, then select the "x" next to the apps you want to delete.

 

[TuffLuffJimmy]

If I understand you correctly as to what you want to do, just hold the home button until they start jiggling, then select the "x" next to the apps you want to delete.

You don't hold the home button, you click and hold an icon.

 

[abijnk]

Then once it is off your phone, go in to iTunes and delete it from the list there and you shouldn't see it again. The good thing is, too, that even if you delete a paid app from both the phone and the iTunes page you can still download it for free at a later date should you choose to do so.

 

[-aggie-]

You don't hold the home button, you click and hold an icon.

I must be on something. Yeah, you click and hold the icon!

 

[JeffMonty]

To delete the applications from your computer (and your iphone) click Applications on the left bar in iTunes. Then right-click on the app that you want to delete and click Delete. That will delete the app entirely from your computer.

 

[Vidder]

You don't hold the home button, you click and hold an icon.

you totally added the word "home" to his quote. He never said hold the 'home' button.

 

[-aggie-]

you totally added the word "home" to his quote. He never said hold the 'home' button.

Yes, I did, I made a mistake earlier and edited it. Look closer about me being on crack. See???

 

[TuffLuffJimmy]

you totally added the word "home" to his quote. He never said hold the 'home' button.

Why would I do that?

Yes, I did, I made a mistake earlier and edited it. Look closer about me being on crack. See???

Thanks for the clarification

 

[dlemmon]

just some background info

it uses a two way sync, so if you delete it from iTunes, and still have it on your phone, it puts it back on the computer. if you only delete it from your phone iTunes will put it back on the iPhone.

another way is to uncheck the app, sync, disconnect the iPhone, then delete the app from the computer.

this can be kinda annoying at first

 

[wackymacky]

Did you mead deleating off your phone?


When you delete and app, it is like trashig a file. Although the icon is gone and links to
the data may be broke, It still remains until it is overwritten (and can possibly be retrieved if the phone is hacked).

There are Apps that over-write "free space" on the phone to make recovery of old apps and data more difficult.

I’ve got the App iErase, ( http://www.zdziarski.com/projects/ierase/) ,

(I think that it only zeros the data once. I’m not sure if on solid-state memory how this compares to secure-delete of hard drives when you can do multiple over-writes.)

Though I'm sure there are others.