Can you remove apps from purchased list?

that is not a fix. the items return as soon as you sign back in.

Hi, in my case they have not reappeared on my iPad 3.

What I would recommend is to follow the steps in reverse order, first step 2 then 1.

Also, just signing out and back in does not work. You have to sign out from your account and reboot the device (hold menu bottom and standby bottom at the same time until it switch off).

Then sign in to your account and check the purchased list.

Hope that it works for you too.

Cheers,

looks like another situation where you need access to a pc, which not every ipad user has.

You will need access to iTunes, using PC or Mac.

Cheers,

I'm sorry if this sounds stupid but i was just wondering, is it true that you can delete purchased history back in ios 5? So, can we somehow downgrade the iPhone 5/iPad to ios 5 or something just to delete the hidden apps then upgrading it back to ios 7? Thank you.

Don't get why "Update All" insists on including apps not currently on the device. Isn't the simple answer just only to update installed apps? As it is, I have to re-delete them manually, and it's essential because I run our of memory if they are re-installed. All in all, this is a totally sick part of the iStore design.

How about adding an "update only installed" button?

Thanks! So helpful!!

After having switched to Android OS I thought I would give ios7 a look with the ipad mini. I too have this problem of wanting to delete old apps. Not sure what this has to do with accounting systems but I know that if there is something I try from the Google store that I want to delete permanently and not just uninstall from my phone all I have to do is is click on the X and poof, gone. Get with it Apple.

My point exactly. Apple use to be about "think different" now they want you to think the same. Be a sheep. As is said in my previous post. I have now sold my iphone 4s in exchange for an ipad mini. But that ipad mini used as a glorified ipod and archos video player. For serious office or personal work i use my Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 2014, where Google and Android allow me freedom to make the tablet my own.

Fix up Apple. We buy your hardware and WE Choose to download or not. You do not decide how and what we purchase. And how and what we keep in our history!

1.press [CMD-OPTION-S] or go to View > Show Sidebar

2.go to Apps (on the top left in Sidebar)

3.in overview on the right, select the tab you need

4.right click on icon to delete

'Everything is gettin so complicated...need....simpel...need...air'

I find it extraordinary that the alleged 'it just works' iPad has use ability holes like this. I suggest that everyone who posted here needs to send apple feedback as well, since they obviously don't read these forums themselves.

With people buying iPads instead of computers needing a separate computer to edit the iPad is witless.

I am having the problems that everyone had. When I first got my first iphone, pre kids, I loved to play around and try and find "naughty apps, karma sutra, sex positions, etc." No I have kids with ipads. I have followed all the steps in here. I "Hid" them on my computer. I even deleted all apps from my computer. I just bought daughter new ipad. She went to purchased to move over games she played and sure enough, there were all the apps that I had "hid" in itunes on my computer. Embarrasing. Right now I am figuring that the only way to fix this is to start with a new "family" account, thus loosing hundreds of apps I already purchashed. This *****!

Well, I have 'hidden' the dodgy apps but they are still visible. This is rather a mess.

There is a feedback page at http://www.apple.com/feedback/ipad.html

Apple don't read these forums.

You used to be able to swipe over an app in the purchased list and hit "remove"... This seems to be no longer the case.