【Love Nonetheless】

You wanna hide apps from your iPhone home screen,Love Nonetheless do you?

First of all, there are plenty of reasons to make an iPhone app more difficult to access, and many of them are perfectly wholesome. Perhaps you want to hide your Venmo/Cash App so it's not easily accessible on your home screen. Or maybe you want to hide your Instagram, TikTok, etc. if you have a little sibling who likes to steal your phone and post embarrassing pics and videos of you on your socials.

SEE ALSO: How to mirror your iPhone to your TV

So now that you know we're not here to judge, here's how to do it:

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Total Time

• 2 min

What You Need

• iPhone

Step 1: Find the app you want to remove from your home screen.

Step 2: Tap and hold the app until a menu pops up with the option to "Remove App".

You can also tap and hold the home screen until the apps start shaking, and then tap the little "minus" sign next to the app you want to hide.

App mini menu. Yes we tried Power Vinyasa and yes it was really freaking hard Credit: Andy Moser / Apple

Step 3: Tap "Remove App".

You'll see options to either delete the app, remove it from the home screen, or cancel the action.

Step 4: Choose "Remove from Home Screen".

The app will be hidden and won't appear on your home screen.

Tap "Remove from Home Screen" Credit: Andy Moser / Apple

Cool! But now...how do you find it again? The app, though hidden from your home screen, is still in your app library.

Check out our piece on how to find hidden apps.

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