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Can you remove apps from purchased list?

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.

iPod touch, iOS 4.3.2

Posted on Jun 6, 2011 5:01 PM

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Posted on Jul 14, 2018 1:03 AM

I will soon get married, and I have a lot of "stuff" since I was younger and ...you know. So no being able to delete old garbage from the eys of an IT wife, is not so good for me ...


MAKE THE DELETE OPTION!

What is this? Gestapo ?....

Regards.

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Jul 14, 2018 1:03 AM in response to slafor

I will soon get married, and I have a lot of "stuff" since I was younger and ...you know. So no being able to delete old garbage from the eys of an IT wife, is not so good for me ...


MAKE THE DELETE OPTION!

What is this? Gestapo ?....

Regards.

Jul 14, 2018 1:03 AM in response to PurpleyPuffin

Did you read the topic? Do you think? (not different, just think) ... NO ONE wants to just hide the purchases, but to DELETE them, so NO ONE can ever find you have been using an app.


You make a bad rap to apple.... they think different,we just think, and you...just refuse to apparently...

Jun 6, 2011 9:02 PM in response to slafor

Yes, I agree. I would love this feature. Now that prior purchases that I no longer use are now accessible through the App Store on the Update tab on my iPod, there is a hefty list of junk apps I would rather not see. Apple, please add this feature somehow so we can permanently delete apps from our purchase history.

Jun 7, 2011 9:09 AM in response to slafor

I understand everybody's frustration with not being able to do this from the "it is my right to do this" point of view - with regard to deleting apps and app updates for this deleted apps. But please hear me out with regard to the Purchase History.


What most people fail to realize is that these records are tied into Apple's accounting system and no accounting system/software will allow you to remove a customer's purchase records from the system. If that was possible, accounting records could be inaccurate or falsified and their sales records would be a mess. As big as they are - I think even Apple must report income to the Federal Government. The bottom line is that you are asking Apple to remove those sales transactions from their records when you ask if you can remove items from your purchase history and that just might be illegal.


This may seem like an easy fix for the end user - us- the iTunes customer - but it just isn't practical for Apple to allow this to occur. In the real world, they just can't remove records for purchases which is what this would amount to.


Removing apps and app notifications from occurring may be a different issue, but I see no way that Apple can allow users to delete items from their purchase history.

Jun 7, 2011 9:48 AM in response to isysy

I second this request, and will do my best to add my opinion to EVERY post about being able to permanently and totally delete objects from my purchase history.


Crappy free apps that I will NEVER reinstall on any device.

Time-bombed paid apps that I will NEVER reinstall on any device - like all older versions of MLB.com at Bat.


*** apple? Give me control of my devices and my purchases!



Demo - How apple manages that on the back end is their problem. If I ever want to pull something down from the could, on any of my devices, why should i have to sort through all the junk that I no longer have any interest in?

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