Is there a way to lock/hide apps or folders?

angelahmk wrote:

Hello!! EVERYONEEE I FOUND HOW!! I was extremely upset and thought i should check the app store.. I searched "Hide apps" and boom! I found an app called "Secret apps lite" And i couldnt have been happier. at the moment it is downloading but appearantly you set a passcode on certain apps..Hope it does what I need!!

It doesn't not allow you to set a password on apps. It allows you to secure data: picturec, notes, contacts.

As Meg points out, it secures data and photos you put inside it, but it does not lock down other Apps mainly because the way iOS works does not allow Apps to affect other Apps in any way.

In the end there is no real way to lock or hide Apps, because iOS simply isn't built that way.

Also was it really necessarry to ressurrect a year old thread for this?

I have the same problem with my student using educational apps but obsessed with my Amazon prime and Youtube videos. Luckily at my school there is no wifi access so he can't get on the internet, but it doesn't keep him from trying every day. It would be so easy to have a folder that could be locked with all of those apps inside. I hope Apple can think of a a solution to this problem.

Try this.... It works for my 2 y/o that likes to charge miscellaneous purchases to my credit card via Amazon.com LOL

I know it's 7 months later but I hope it helps!

https://www.yahoo.com/tech/heres-how-to-lock-your-iphone-so-it-wont-run-anything -74100463523.html

Hi, sorry for resurrecting a long dead thread, but just wondering if any of the parental lock apps could be of use for you?

Like Qustodio https://www.qustodio.com/ or FamilyTime https://familytime.io/?

It's not solving my problem as the kids are using my phone (they are too small to have their own yet), but it might solve the problem with your daughter on the iPad?

In order to install apps that are not in the App Store, you would to have had to have jailbroken your iPad. Discussions of jailbreaking are, except for the most general, not permitted.

Well they should find a way to hide apps. How am i supposed to buy maxim magazine whitout everyone on the ipad nothising?

Don't let people use your iPad if they're are going to be snooping around in your stuff. Or simply passcode it. Or, don't buy things you're embarrassed to let people know you have.

Watchout4me1 wrote:

Its available for download on CNET.

You can't download anything from CNET to an iPad or iPhone (unless you've done something warranty voiding).

Isn't there any solution yet?

This is frustrating

Yeah, just did it.

Sent also some android examples so they can see exactly what we need.

Let's all pray now 😟