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Removing all 32 bit apps?

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robgendreau

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Turns out I've got a LOT of 32 bit apps. I wanna remove all of 'em. But the list in Settings doesn't allow deletion, and it isn't even in alphanumeric order, so it's hard to find the offending apps. I'd probably leave a couple just as reminders to check if new versions come in, but most are apps that haven't been updated in ages anyway.

Any way to group them or otherwise get rid of them all together?
 
thejasonhowell

thejasonhowell

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robgendreau said:
Turns out I've got a LOT of 32 bit apps. I wanna remove all of 'em. But the list in Settings doesn't allow deletion, and it isn't even in alphanumeric order, so it's hard to find the offending apps. I'd probably leave a couple just as reminders to check if new versions come in, but most are apps that haven't been updated in ages anyway.

Any way to group them or otherwise get rid of them all together?
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Delete them while connected to a computer
 
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DeltaMac

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I suppose you could move all your 32-bit apps into a single folder, so that all are, well, grouped together.
Then, you can delete each app. If you have a hundred or so, that will still take a while.
It would be up to you to decide if a single folder would be worth the time it would take just to do that. :D

Ah, thejasonhowell has a great idea --- better than mine :cool:
 
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robgendreau

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Thanks for the suggestions, but identifying 40 or so of them to move them is the problem. And I think you'd still have to delete each individually. So the iTunes suggestion helps, but 32bit isn't one of the criteria to lump them together. If I had a least an alpha list I could refer to it might work, but I can't figure out how to get that either.
 
DeltaMac

DeltaMac

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Only 40 or so?
I was trying to help a friend who downloaded a LOT of apps, with over 900 on his iPhone. Lots and lots of folders.
More than 350 32-bit apps on that iPhone, and nothing about that would be convenient, as you can imagine!

The solution that he used was to write down a couple of dozen at a time, remove those; then make another list of a couple of dozen.
You can eat an elephant if you take enough bites :D
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Not something that I would do (I keep about 40 total apps, and try to prune down to less than that every month or two.)
My iPhone only showed 2 32-bit apps, so pretty quick for me. Something to look forward to, I suppose.
 
thejasonhowell

thejasonhowell

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DeltaMac said:
Only 40 or so?
I was trying to help a friend who downloaded a LOT of apps, with over 900 on his iPhone. Lots and lots of folders.
More than 350 32-bit apps on that iPhone, and nothing about that would be convenient, as you can imagine!

The solution that he used was to write down a couple of dozen at a time, remove those; then make another list of a couple of dozen.

Not something that I would do (I keep about 40 total apps, and try to prune down to less than that every month or two.)
My iPhone only showed 2 32-bit apps, so pretty quick for me. Something to look forward to, I suppose.
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With over 400 apps people told me I was bad.
 
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