Can you remove apps from purchased list?

yes you can- go to itunes and go to apps, go to where the apps are enlarged and big, drag the app to the trash can or right click it and delete it and it will go away (even on your phone) p.s i tried this on the latest itunes and i have ios 8

I have iTunes 12.01.26 on Yosemite. I click on my name on the top right and click "Purchased", then "Apps".

I cannot drag the app to the trash. Right clock does not work either. I can click on the app and hide it. Apple must have updated iTunes as of December 2014 to prevent purchased app being deleted.

The reason I want to delete apps is because I have some really, really old apps that I no longer use (think from iPHone 3GS days). It is now cluttering the list and it is really hard to search for purchased app when I am on my iPhone. Not sure why Apple is preventing users from deleting the apps from the Purchased list.

You can delete apps from the Apps part of your Mac's iTunes library (just select/highlight them and press the delete button on your keyboard), and you can hide them from the Purchased list so that they don't show in the cloud for redownloading (you can't permanently delete them from your purchase history, you can only hide them) : iTunes Store: Hiding and unhiding purchases.

I know how to delete DOWNLOADED apps in my iTunes library. But if you'll ow my steps above, what I want to do is delete apps from my Purchase history. Like I said, this just clutter my Purchased list when accessing it from my iPhone.

I am just baffled Apple wont let us delete old apps from the purchase history. 5 years from now, most people will have hundreds, if not thousand of apps going back from 2009.

You cannot delete them, you can only hide them - that will stop them showing in the Purchased links for redownloading

As far as I know Apple haven't said why you can't

Yeah, I am not holding my breath for Apple to said why...

Interestingly, I bought an app a while back and the developer pull it out from the App store. Even though I paid for it, it's no longer available for me to download. I didn't know this until I got a new iPhone and tried to reinstall the app. THAT app should still be available for people who bought it. You know, just like I still have my Starcraft original CD even though it's outdated...

Bit I've tried that constantly, just hides them on one side of the screen! It just moves it over to the other side!

There is a bug on iOS devices that means that hiding them directly on a device doesn't work, you need to do it via your computer's iTunes : iTunes Store: Hiding and unhiding purchases - Apple Support - on the current version of iTunes the 'x' is invisible, another bug, but the process for hiding them should still work i.e. click on the app's top left corner where the 'x' should be.

Thanks, it's works though the delete button is invisible, just have to move your mouse cursor to top left and click it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2eE8iCxBCyM

this is the best answer so far about this topic in any forums talking about the subject.

Works in iTunes 12.2.2

Thank you yosefsnipes

You'll be pleased to know that this still works, though the cross no longer shows up.

Just hover over the top left corner of the app in question until the cursor changes, and then click.

tthis totally helped because my older sister was on my phone and downloaded gross stuff lets just say that and dirTy stuff and before my mom looked on my phone and blamed me for that stuff I wanted it deleted

There is a nice video showing how to do this and it works like a charm!

It can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13QL85kOr1A

This works. You can still use the app on your device. No need to enable family sharing.