How do I temporarily disable apps on iPhone 15 running iOS 18.3.2?

You could also go to: Settings > General > iPhone Storage, find the apps in the list, then swipe left then offload them. This will free the storage used by them, but when you want them again, tap on the app to start the download procedure again, and no app data will be lost.

Well, first you should update to 18.4.1.

All apps are disabled except when you are actively using them. You can remove them from your Home screen by holding your finger on the screen to edit it, then hold on each app you won’t be using, choose delete, then “remove from Home screen”. This will leave it in the App Library, but remove it from the screen, but leave the app data on the iPhone. Or you can delete it completely; you can still reload it from the App Store, but any local app data will be lost.

You can also remove apps from the App Switcher; swipe up from the bottom of the screen and pause in the middle, then swipe up on any apps you don’t plan to use.

BuggaBoo@28 wrote:

I have a lot of apps and many aren’t used often. I don’t want to delete those, I just want to disable them until I need them. I’ve done this before and can’t remember how to do it. I’m on a 15 and 18.3.2..

Where are you headed with this?

Apps that aren’t used will occupy storage space, but don’t occupy memory or the processors.

If you don’t want to see those apps, you can move them to the screens near the end of your installed apps, or can more the apps into purpose-created app folders, or can remove the icons and leave the apps accessible only in the app library, or you can password-protect specific apps if you want extra steps for access the apps.

You can delete apps and their local settings if you want the apps gone, and can later re-download those apps from the app store. (Assuming the app is still available to re-download, too.)

If you have sufficient iPhone storage, then apps you don’t use can be ignored. Yes, you could manually quit those apps in the app switcher, but iOS will have already automatically quit inactive apps whenever the resources (other than storage) are needed for other uses.

There are folks that can and do choose to manually manage their apps certainly, but that effort and quitting apps usually isn’t necessary for most of us. It happens automatically.

And yes, consider an update to iOS 18.4.1; to current.

“How do I temporarily disable apps on iPhone 15 running iOS 18.3.2?“

You can permanently disable them by updating to iOS 18.4.1 and at the same time fix multiple security vulnerabilities. Just say’n!