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How do I delete apps from the iCloud

There are apps appearing on the iCloud that I do not want there. I deleted them for a reason. How can I delete them from the iCloud.

iCloud-OTHER, iOS 4.3.2

Posted on Jun 7, 2011 8:05 AM

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Posted on Aug 29, 2017 9:40 PM

If you have feedback for Apple, you can post it here: Apple - Feedback


Here is the support article that explains it: Hide and unhide purchases in iTunes or iBooks on your Mac or PC - Apple Support



Cheers,


GB

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Aug 30, 2017 2:25 PM in response to dittoheadadt

dittoheadadt wrote:


Why is Apple so resistant to implementing this fundamental feature that so many millions of users want ?? Why are they so blatantly and intransigently anti-customer-choice on this issue?


I wouldn't be able to answer that, but you can share your displeasure with Apple here: Apple - Feedback


And my previous response was to your question as to why Apple titled the support article Hiding instead of Deleting. I was explaining that they called it that because that is what it is.


Cheers,


GB

Sep 17, 2017 2:47 PM in response to dittoheadadt

and I never said Apple is an outlier on this.


Nor did I quote you. I used the words "for context" purposely. Rather than make a overtly negative statement, I offered possible rationale for the situation. My bad.


It seems you just want to be unhappy about this.


I'm saying it should be possible,

But at present, it isn't. That's what we volunteers do here. We answer technical support questions. We don't, and can't, debate policy or Apple's decisions.




Bring your concerns to the only people who can change the current process.


Feedback for Apple goes here >>> http://www.apple.com/feedback/

Feb 23, 2017 5:39 PM in response to kthrynileen1

I understand everything you explained however, I down loaded an app three weeks ago when I was told I would get a heart monitor to ware, the monitor hadn't been ordered from the company that was supplying it. When the company got the order they assigned a registration number to use when I start using the monitor. The number is not recognized be cause I'm using the the app i downloaded before the company assigned the registration number. I've tried to deleted the app several times but when I re download the app but it's the same one that I deleted.

Apr 4, 2017 2:34 PM in response to Author.Author

Author.Author wrote:

So YOU THINK I should search for a needle in a haystack 5 years back?

No, I think you should start at the beginning of this thread read the responses...
and find the answer about 10 answers down...

How EASY is it

How easy is it to simply to read the entire thread before posting the same question that has been answered at least a dozen times in this very thread...

to simply give an honest effort in serving those who pay for services that will HELP many of them with the same problem.

Uh, what services are you paying for?

Aug 29, 2017 9:30 PM in response to walkerwr

Ok, it appears that Apple, despite everyone's desire to be able to literally delete unwanted apps from their account/from their Cloud/from whatever, despite the overwhelming consumer desire for this function, Apple in their arrogant infinite wisdom thinks you're wrong. So, you cannot delete the unwanted apps.


However, in its stead you can hide the apps you wish never to see again. The process is, naturally, laborious - after all, we're talking Apple here, and they make almost nothing easy. But give this a try:


Open iTunes. Click on the "Account" dropdown menu that appears in the upper-left of the main iTunes screen. From that dropdown menu click "Purchased". Over on the upper-right part of the screen that appears you'll see, from left to right, "Music Movies TVShows Apps Books Audiobooks" or some combination of those. Needless to say, you want to click on "Apps".


Click your device - either iPhone or iPad - where the offending apps reside. Now, I assume the apps you would like to delete are "Not In My Library" so click on that - "Not in My Library", in the upper-center of the screen. Now hold your cursor over each app, one at a time, and you'll see a little black "x" in a grey circle in the upper-left corner of the app.


Click on that "x" and the app will disappear. You may get a message telling you how you can "unhide" them, should you so desire in the future. Mind you, the app has not been deleted. But it's no longer cluttering up your inventory of apps. It's late now so I won't sync my iPhone to iTunes until the morning, so I don't know what effect this will (or won't?) have on the inventory of apps when you access them via the App Store from your iPhone or iPad. The housekeeping in iTunes should sync with our devices. If it doesn't, it would be asinine to the nth degree. I'll find out a little later.


Anyway, as if the process isn't harebrained enough, Apple thought they'd continue to make your life miserable, so you cannot hide/delete multiple apps at once. No, you have to do them one at a time. And to add insult to injury, once you start to scroll down to hide/delete an app, iTunes bounces you all the way back to the top, forcing you to have to scroll back down to where you were. Every. Single. G/d. Time.


***, Apple???

Aug 30, 2017 4:36 AM in response to gail from maine

I'll be darned - so I had it mostly right. Not sure why that support article didn't show up when I Googled the issue. Maybe because most sentient human beings think of the process as deleting, not hiding, what they want to get rid of permanently. For example, I take useless stuff to the dump when I want to get rid of it for good; I don't hide it in the basement or in the garage.


If someone could only knock some sense into Apple's head and let us delete the ****** things, we wouldn't have so much contempt for their apparent disregard of our needs and wishes.


Anyway, thank you for the Official link!

Aug 30, 2017 12:57 PM in response to dittoheadadt

dittoheadadt wrote:


Maybe because most sentient human beings think of the process as deleting, not hiding, what they want to get rid of permanently. For example, I take useless stuff to the dump when I want to get rid of it for good; I don't hide it in the basement or in the garage.


Except that you aren't getting rid of them permanently. You are just putting them in a place where you don't have to see them (like the stuff you "hide" in the closet, or under the bed).


Apple does not let you delete your purchases from their database. You can delete them from a device or from your iTunes Library, but they are essentially just hidden when you do that. Basically, any purchase you have ever made in the iTunes or App Store with a given Apple ID will always be available to be downloaded as long as they are still available in the iTunes Store (of the same country).


You are most welcome for the link 🙂


Cheers,


GB

Aug 30, 2017 1:12 PM in response to gail from maine

Except I don't hide in the closet or under the bed things that I want to throw away. I take them to the dump, and I'm rid of them permanently, forever. By choice. My choice. There is nothing analogous to that in the iCloud with regard to apps. I've tried dozens of apps that are now hidden in the Cloud, apps that I would take to the dump if they were sitting in my garage. Millions of people are in the same boat as I - they want to delete certain apps forevermore, not hide them in the closet or under the bed for later retrieval.


I know full well that Apple does not let you delete purchases from their database, and that makes a certain amount of sense....for purchases. If you've paid for something, you may want to retrieve it later. But the vast majority of apps that people have tried and now want to delete aren't actual "purchases"! They were free apps. Customers will lose literally nothing if they delete a free app permanently, and then later decide to re-download it. And Apple knows full well which apps customers paid for (e.g. actually purchased) and which apps were free.


Why is Apple so resistant to implementing this fundamental feature that so many millions of users want ?? Why are they so blatantly and intransigently anti-customer-choice on this issue?


Cheers,

AT

Aug 30, 2017 3:06 PM in response to gail from maine

No, I realize that. It was more a rhetorical question than anything. I've shared my displeasure with their policy already at their Feedback link. I'm sure it was futile inasmuch as legions of people have been making this same complaint for years, yet Apple has done nothing about it. They have their reasons, and I'm quite confident that the reasons have nothing to do with customer service or customer satisfaction.


Best regards,

AT

Sep 17, 2017 8:03 AM in response to LACAllen

I could have sworn there was once a way to do this in iTunes, but maybe it was just the hide feature. One advantage, I guess, to not being able to delete is that with the little Cloud icon appear in the App Store next to all those useless apps we've tried and hated, at least we won't accidentally choose them again. I agree, though, it's sloppy and Apple should at least acknowledge years of complaints by users with some solution to get rid of unwanted apps.

Sep 17, 2017 8:07 AM in response to randm57

randm57 wrote:


I could have sworn there was once a way to do this in iTunes, but maybe it was just the hide feature. One advantage, I guess, to not being able to delete is that with the little Cloud icon appear in the App Store next to all those useless apps we've tried and hated, at least we won't accidentally choose them again. I agree, though, it's sloppy and Apple should at least acknowledge years of complaints by users with some solution to get rid of unwanted apps.

You've always been able to get rid of unwanted apps. What you can't get rid of is the record that you've purchased/downloaded certain apps. Those are business records. You can't log into your credit card account and delete purchase records. You can't log into your cell phone account and delete call logs.

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