iPhone 14 Pro flashlight

We are not Apple, so asking here won't get you anything. You cannot remove it. It is baked into iOS and it cannot be turned off. But you can turn off Tap to Wake which will prevent your flashlight from turning on by itself in your pocket.

Settings > Accessibility > Touch > Tap or Swipe to Wake (turn it off).

With this off, your Flashlight will never enable itself in your pocket.

Kenny Jackson wrote:

Can we ask Apple to allow users to remove the annoying flashlight button on IOS 16xxx? Don’t need it. Don’t want it running my battery down when it turns on in my pocket. Please?

That flashlight button is not new. I believe it was added with iOS 7 (2013).

If you lock the screen of your phone before you put it in your pocket, it shouldn't ever come on.

That is a Lock Screen, not a Home Screen. The Home Screen is the one with all apps and the dock. That was introduced with iOS 7.

You cannot remove it so use the feedback link you were provided. I’ve never had my pocket activate it.

You can submit feedack here: Product Feedback - Apple

Can you show us a screenshot of it appearing on the Homescreen? Have you added it as an app?

If your iPhone 8 Plus did not show it on the Lock Screen there was something wrong with your iPhone.

You're welcome.