Can you remove apps from purchased list?

The only thing apple should do is to functionally exchange the textual purchase history list(now under accountinfo/purchase history (and oddly enough NOT showing all purchases)) and the visual purchased list. The purchased list has a functional use of managing and installing wanted apps in new devices while the purchase history could perfectly function as the legal historical registration of tranactions. Apple generally is very good at creating to the point interfaces but here is a clear omission in the goal and practical use of different screens. I think this would solve everyones trouble and comply with the legal aspects so much stressed on by Demo.

Some of the "event" apps are totally obsolete once the event is over. For example.

2010 World cup app

2010 Winter Olympic

Some of the app you use it when you are subscriber, For example I used to subscribe to Netflix and HBO now I no longer a subscriber.. so their app are also obsolete to me.

Some of the app the developer decide to make it obsolete For example ebay used to support an app "ebay selling" but after while they integrate the "selling "feature into the ebay app. Now it is obsolete.

And for some apps I decided to upgrade for Lite to Pro or from Free to Paid version. After upgraded the free one and the "Free or Lite" one is still lying around.

Sooner or later you end up with a few dozen app you no longer needed or used and your purchase list grow bigger and bigger because of no way to remove or hide those apps. Imagine 5 years from now if you don't have a way to get ride of app.. how many apps with you end up with?

I really hope one day Apple will support this feature one day..

I realize there is a lot behind the app purchase history, but hiding it from our Purchased list does not mean it has to be wiped from the Apple accounting system. We would like the ability to hide, if not remove, apps. There are apps I bought over a year ago that I'd like to bring back. That's virtually impossible using the Purchased history. (App Store isn't always an option, since many apps have similar names, so finding mine isn't always easy.)

On iTunes, we can delete apps from the library. When deciding what to include on iPhone, we pick from what is in the Library, not from everything we've ever downloaded for the past 3+ years. If it's not in my iTunes library, I don't want to see it in my Purchased history.

Silly cartoon:

Cool, I just downloaded that new app. How do I use it? I think I press on it... <waiting> There, it's jiggling! Now how do I launch it? I press the red X, right? Oops, where did it go? Oh, now I remember... Ok, what was that app again? Good thing there's the Purchase History so I can redownload what I JUST downloaded a moment ago. 😁

Since the "Purchased" history is useless without some filtering and/or search capability, here's what I do instead:

Search my email archive for:

From: iTunes

Body: <name of app I want to retrieve>

Once I have the exact app name and developer, I can easily find it in the App Store and re-download it.

Yes, I keep ALL my email. For above reason and license keys, etc. 🙂

Count me in as a person wanting to be able to filter my purchase list. Any of us after a few years on iOS will have gathered a sizeable list of useless apps. Games we got bored of and apps that turned out complete duds.

It'd be very handy to be able to hide these apps for good. It could be made reversible but being able to not see some entries would be perfect. On a new device I'd hate to have to wade through my purchase list in order to remember which of the 5 unit converter or rss reader apps is the one worth installing.

I would like to see this feature added. I have a lot of apps that I don't want to have to sort through to find useful apps I actually need.

I really would like to have the possibility to filter out some apps from the purchase history. What's the point in having certain apps I've downloaded only to find out they are crappy, in my apps list?

This would be easly done just adding an "hide it" flag and the possibility to show or not the hided ones. The purchase history loses its usefulness without a filtering system...

Hope they add this feature soon!!!

Good luck with getting apple to do this. Haha. No but it's a good idea.

For all those that wanted it ..... The feature has now been added in iTunes 10.5 released yesterday. I copied this from another thread.

Here is the thread.

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3108471

This is now possible in iTunes 10.5. Here's how you do it:

1. Upgrade your version of iTunes to 10.5 (released October 11, 2011).

2. Click on iTunes Store in the lefthand column of iTunes and log in to your account.

3. Find "Purchased" in the Quick Links menu on the right hand side of the Store home page. Click on it.

4. You should see a list of your downloaded apps on the screen. Mouse over any app that you wish to delete. A small "x" in a round circle will appear in the top left corner of the app icon. Click the "x".

5. A notification will pop up telling you that your purchased app will now be hidden and how you can un-hide it in the future. Click OK. The app will disappear from your purchase history in iTunes and all associated iOS devices instantly. Verify this on your iOS device by navigating to your purchase history in the App Store.

Enjoy, and thanks Apple for listening to your customers!

Hide to your heart's contents.

This is fantastic. My only question is which I cannot find the answer to is, how do you see the hidden apps once you've hidden them?

This is great! Now will that keep us from getting Upgrade notifications for the apps we've hidden? I keep having upgrades I no longer want appearing on my upgrade list, and there doesn't seem to be any way to hide/delete or decline them. I also get a couple of apps that keep trying to download themselves, even though they've already been downloaded (and they're huge, >1 Gig Navigation apps!).

I just hid an app and the upgrade is still sitting there--I'm going to try to reboot iTunes; hopefully it will go away.

Click on Account - under the Quick Links heading - in the main page of the iTunes store and you have the option of unhiding the apps after you sign in. Look in the Purchase History Section.

I agree, I hope we can hide it in some way, very annoying, I agree with the person who said that it's tied to apple accounting system and it can't be removed, however, in every database, there is sort or hide, or show only, which will make our life easier...

I had the same question and desire to unclog my list of apps that I'll never synch again.

Here's how to do it:
http://www.askdavetaylor.com/how_to_delete_iphone_application_app_itunes.html

Was actually much easier than it says here, and I didn't have any of the problems he mentions at the end.

Enjoy!

You do realize that the article that you referenced shows you how to delete apps permanently and the majority of the discussion in this thread was about a way to hide the purchase - not delete it.

Even if you delete the apps they will still show up in the purchase history. You can hide purchases now - but just because you delete it from your iTunes library - it will still always be in your purchased history.