Most here have no idea what a bloatware is. Those apps are used more often than people think and i personally use stock apps if i can. Mail, calendar, notes, voice memos and find my friends are very useful to me.
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You can hide stock apps in 9.3! For real!
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I would love to uninstall safari, notes, reminders, stocks, weather, game center, tips, itunes store, maps, music, videos, ibooks, podcasts, voice memos, health, watch, find my friends and find iphone.
I would love to uninstall some people if you catch my drift ....
They would have to drastically change iOS to let you uninstall most of the stock apps.
If bloatware is anything you say is bloatware, which is where I think this is headed, if not already stated by your response -- I don't think it's that easy to classify the stock apps that easy. I mean, sure you may prefer Spotify, Pandora, Google Play, Amazon Music, or whatever for your playing or buying music, but I hardly think that qualifies the Music or iTunes Store "apps" as 'bloatware' or puts them on the same level as the multitude of uninstallable AT&T "apps" that can't be removed from an Android phone without rooting it. My impression is that those AT&T apps probably see very little to no over all use, much less, provide any "integral OS" functionality or critical system support function. The apple Music and iTunes Store app clearly see constant perpetual use throughout the iPhone owner base, though.
Now i'm not responding here trying to establish some "definition" of what is or isn't bloatware or to say you're wrong or whatever, just that, it isn't as simple to say "I should be able to delete whatever stock apps I want." Bottom line, The question and desire has literally been asked and presented to the face of Apple's CEO, Tim Cook, and he's acknowledged it's a concern that customers have.
Tim did say on Colbert's Late Show that they are working to allow people to hide stock apps. I see that coming in iOS 10.
People are misusing the phrase 'bloatware' to just mean apps they personally dislike/don't use. That's the problem here.
common sense, either I use better 3rd party apps or have zero use for these functions.
People are misusing the phrase 'bloatware' to just mean apps they personally dislike/don't use. That's the problem here.[/QUOTE]
bloat·ware
ˈblōtˌwer/
nounCOMPUTINGinformal
noun: bloatware
software whose usefulness is reduced because of the excessive disk space and memory it requires.
"a nasty piece of cross-platform bloatware that's in serious need of a total overhaul"
unwanted software included on a new computer or mobile device by the manufacturer.
"users must initially contend with the usual bevy of bloatware (unnecessary toolbars, games of questionable value)"
bloat·ware
ˈblōtˌwer/
nounCOMPUTINGinformal
noun: bloatware
software whose usefulness is reduced because of the excessive disk space and memory it requires.
"a nasty piece of cross-platform bloatware that's in serious need of a total overhaul"
unwanted software included on a new computer or mobile device by the manufacturer.
"users must initially contend with the usual bevy of bloatware (unnecessary toolbars, games of questionable value)"
bloat·ware
ˈblōtˌwer/
nounCOMPUTINGinformal
noun: bloatware
software whose usefulness is reduced because of the excessive disk space and memory it requires.
"a nasty piece of cross-platform bloatware that's in serious need of a total overhaul"
unwanted software included on a new computer or mobile device by the manufacturer.
"users must initially contend with the usual bevy of bloatware (unnecessary toolbars, games of questionable value)"[/QUOTE]
That post pretty much proves my point.
bloat·ware
ˈblōtˌwer/
nounCOMPUTINGinformal
noun: bloatware
software whose usefulness is reduced because of the excessive disk space and memory it requires.
"a nasty piece of cross-platform bloatware that's in serious need of a total overhaul"
unwanted software included on a new computer or mobile device by the manufacturer.
"users must initially contend with the usual bevy of bloatware (unnecessary toolbars, games of questionable value)"[/QUOTE]
Great Apple doesn't incude such apps.
Not everyone has an Apple Watch. I don't want the stocks app, as I don't have stocks or an interest in them.
Watch app is probably the only useless app if you don't have the watch to go along with it. It can be downloaded from app store if needed.
Same could be said about stocks app though. Or find iPhone or find my friends.
They're only useful if you own/have an interest in stocks, you need to find someone else's iOS device or have other friends/family on iOS who have given permission to find them. Otherwise they're useless.
I don't bother with these tricks. They're short lived. There was one like it in iOS 6 as well.
I just throw the apps I don't use into folders and voila they're gone.
I just throw the apps I don't use into folders and voila they're gone.