Can you remove apps from purchased list?

Cool88 What is your problem? Do you need help?

Askhuntuy why do you continue repeating the same nonsense answer that all the blind fans of Apple repeat, that has nothing to do with this post. I refresh your minds: < is it possible to remove apps from the purchase history in my itunes account? It's just with the purchased option now coming up under updates in the app store I would like to remove some of the free apps that I dont use> Is it clear? To remove not hide.

Demo you are the guy of the house. Remove in English, that is not my native language, has different meanings, I guess you know that. The problem and the desire for the majority of people, as you can see in the first answers to the post, is to delete or remove for ever or erase from the purchased history Apps that they don't want to have there, and not only to hide from the list. Demo I have read your answer in the first page of this post. May be you had reason with the purchased App, but why I can't delete or remove for ever from the purchased history the free Apps that I didn't purchase?

OTher thing Demo. Their records are their records. My devices are my devices. If I want to delete or remove from my, I repeat, my purchased history not theirs, because is it a list that is in MY DEVICE. WHY I CAN'T? They, Apple, can keep in their records what they want or need, but if customers want to do something so simple, as to delete from their purchased history Apps, why Apple doesn't have the detail and consideration with this customers.

And all this people who don't want to delete or remove for ever from their purchased history, good for them, but I don't understand why they are trying to justify the unjustficable. That Apple don't care for a great group of customers that want that option, so they can opt freely to have in their devices what they want.

Chadmess you can call yourself the "likely guy: "has to be" "if this is true" "highly likely" "infinite times". All your answer is about suppositions. Apple is business if they pay a fee to Apple for each download great for Apple.

Techiefromcincinnati you are one of those who ilogicaly repeat constantly a response that is not the matter.

Hi Cool 88 I didn't understand your claim, I thought you were asking to me. But what I see is that they deleted your previous post, this deletion can be done.

Your post was good:

I am FLABBERGASTED!!!!

What happened to customers first?!?!?!?!

Apple customers have been complaining about not having the option of deleting permanently from THEIR RECORDS...on THEIR DEVICES, any apps they might have tried and do not use anymore and Apple has been just about INSENSITIVE about these complaints... since at Least JUNE 3, 2011 per this thread....

Well starting today I am taking this fight on and will be posting on every social network possible a petition to have Apple get out of their "Comfort Zone"...

WHat is the problem with your claim. Can somebody answer to me. Is that you say the truth?

This Apple fans or employees are really closed in their minds.

I like Apple but because I like it I think, the things can be done better.

Arturo1957 whatever you said above doesnt make sense to me at all...Email App Store support and ask them if the reason you cant delete an app from your purchase history is due to what I have said and I guarantee you that is their answer. So it is not about suppositions or whatever youre trying to say it is.

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The only way of stopping people looking what you are doing! is to set up another Apple ID, and swap from one to the other on your i phone 5. You can do this on on - Settings - Itunes & App Store - then clicking on your Apple ID - Sign out and enter your ""Secret Apple Id, you dont want anyone knowing about" all you apps stay the same on your phone. you loose no data, just the purchase history is removed. and then you just delete the apps you dont want!

Hope it helps someone out there!!

Yes, it makes sense. You are right, thanks!

great news 🙂 you can no longer hide apps directly on your iOS device running iOS 6. Feature removed.

I think there is a way to delete those apps:

in iTunes go to library - apps, there will be a list of all purchased apps. Right click on one of them, then choose "delete", then it will ask you whether you are sure and whether all the files should be moved to trash. Choose your answer and voila... the app is removed and no longer in the list of apps.

I used this article to get the idea http://connectedmonkey.com/how-to-remove-purchased-apps-from-your-itunes-account /

This doesnt delete the apps I dont think there is away to delete apps at least from the Ipad.

Under Account Information there is a link for Itunes in the Cloud / Hidden Purchases and all the apps you have hidden can be seen and can be restored.

This is the one thing I hate about Apple once you have installed a App its there to be seen forever.

So if you try out several Apps that are similar and just want to keeping the one you like you can delete from your device but the record stays in the Cloud incase you want to unhide and install again.

Any other help in deleting Apps from the Cloud would be helpful

I don't understand the logic behind "taxes" and so forth with regards to the US government tax system. Google is a US company and on my Android I can delete app purchase history.

Again Apple is lacking in awesome Droid features. I still use my 4S, but more as a glorified iPod and occasional game play on the tube/metro...

Fix up Apple...

You ant be serious about removing when you've been given an option of hiding. Hiding will not show it to you anyways. You can't go to a grocery store, purchase stuff and then say don't show that I purchased this arse cleaner.

While restoring purchases on a new/replaced device from iCloud, if iOS does not restore HIDDEN apps from my iTunes account, that would be the right solution. If I need to reinstall a hidden app, I just unhide it and restore. This way, all the apps are there in our account but only the VISIBLE apps are downloaded to our device.

the point is that apple USED to enable users to hide purchased apps, but have since removed this function. so therefore they have already proven it is possible. had they been doing anything technically illegal by including the function, it would surely have made headlines. the fact is that nothing of the like was reported anywhere, (or at least, i cannot find any reports old or new online, and do not recall this issue ever hitting the headlines) , so my guess is that it is purely down to the personal preference of someone within apple that the function has been removed.

This is a BIG problem. You can hide unwanted apps in iTunes and they won't show up on your computer. However, they are ALL still listed on your iPhone in the App Store. And I mean all. Every app you ever downloaded. Right there on your phone. Remember that "100 Sex Positions" app you downloaded 3 years ago and deleted (and then hid in iTunes because NOTHING can be deleted in iCloud)? It's still listed on your iPhone in the App Store under "Purchased" apps. This is a serious problem that doesn't seem to be taken seriously by Apple. Spread the word!

This is really annoying as all the hidden apps now reappeared on the list since I started to download apps. Now I have a useless long long list full of crappy apps and games that will not download anymore.

Let's see if they release patches to this issue as it seems that they are going backwards.

With iOS 5 you could hide apps directly on the device, with iOS 6 was restricted to do it just through iTunes. Now it is not possible anymore.....

Hi solution found:

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/5331901?answerId=23138799022#23138799022

Cheers,