Removing iOS Apps

I assume you're talking about the built-in apps, and not apps that you have downloaded? The latter can, of course, be deleted, so if I'm wrong, say so.

Regarding the built-in apps, note that jailbreaking voids your warranty, I don't know whether it would let you delete those apps, and we're not supposed to discuss jailbreaking here anyway. Why do you feel such a need to delete those apps? You never know when one of them might come in handy - I've found occasional uses for apps that initially didn't seem useful to me - and you also never know what the effects on the overall system might be if you did manage to find a way to remove one of them. Just put them all in a folder, move that folder to its own page after the last page of apps you use and never go there. You'll almost forget they're there.

There's no way to hide those apps either, other than what was already mentioned.

Those are an awful lot of apps that you're not using! Note that the YouTube app is required for viewing YouTube content on an iOS device. Also note that the contacts app is very useful for storing contact information on any device, not just a phone. It can store other information besides just a phone number, like e-mail addresses and postal addresses, and it can sync with your computer. Maps is very useful even without GPS, because you can do stuff like search stuff near your current location (determined by the wireless network you're on)... for example, searching for "mexican food" drops pins on the map for relevant businesses near you.

I'd advise you to play around with some of the apps and see if you can find ways to make them work for you.

I am unsure what the issue is that makes "Dogboy73" wish to remove bundled appliactions.

If the issue is that there is a squeeze for memory then it seems removal is not an option, most of the benefit of Apple products is in the quality of the support, which Thomas A Reedquite rightly said, will be voided by jail-braking.

However if the issue is just having applications which do not add value, and are just noise on the interface the easy solution is to put all the "unwanted applications" in a single folder. Think of it as a trash can that cannot be emptied.

As suggested by paulfromzurich, you can move these unwanted apps into a single folder.

In addition, you can also move this folder to the very last page on your iPad so you will rarely, if not never, see it.

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It is currently 1 year, but can be extended by another 2 (for a total of 3 years) by purchasing an AppleCare service plan. You'd have bo buy that within the period of your 1 year warranty. Don't get the idea, though, that this would protect you in the case of accidental damage - that isn't covered by any warranty. IMHO, if an iPad hasn't failed from a manufacturing defect in the first year, it's probably not going to, so I personally didn't bother.

Actually it can only be expanded to two years, not by two years. At least not how I read it.

With anyone, once their device is two years old they're on their own unless they've purchases some kind of extende warranty from a third party.

I do agree with and sympathize with the OP. I'd love re remove iMessage, Game Center, Facetime, Newsstand, iTUnes (I rip my own cd's I don't buy music). ANd I find that it makes no sense that all apps are 'sandboxed' and separate yet the reason for built in apps being non-deleteable is because they are all linked together....seems kinda contradictory to me.

However I also know that Apple is rather infamous for their 'use your device as we feel you should' attitude, and if you want to use their cool toys, you have to accept that attitude and make your own workarounds. You have to accept that the cool devices are made to facilitate the growth of the App and iTunes stores and that Apple likely makes more profit from them than they do the sale of devices. it's like the cell phone company giving you a good deal on a phone to make their profit off your monthly access fee.

I have all those apps (and even more on my iPod Touch) crammed in a folder on the back page and my biggest irritation is the insistence of Apple to keep pulling that danged Newsstand out of hte folder and cramming it on my screen every time I do anything with other apps. I wish newsstand was like iBooks, an option.

The chances of Apple changing their decades old attitude is slim, so as a user you either accept it and find a way to put yourself in a 'works for me' state, or you try devices by other manufacturers. I did consider that, but after struggling with my mom's e-reader and the complete chaos of the Android store, I'm not going to set myself up for that ridiculousness. Way too much work for me and not something I want to mess with. I will submit myself to Apple's attitude because I find dealing with workarounds to be less work than the utter chaos of that other system.

Really? Really? You do know that jailbreaking is a hack, right? Why can't you just settle with the suggestion that has been given to you and move the apps to a folder on the last page?

You would really hack your device, become vulnerable to malware and spyware, make your OS unstable, just to delete some apps that Apple placed there because most people find them useful?

Really?

I really dont understand how a few apps that you never have to open or even look at could cause such strong feelings that you would be willing to make the possibly irreversible choice to jailbreak, voiding the warranty and exposing your iPad to malware (only a jailbroken iOS device can get malware at this time). Doing things "your way" without compromise is almost never possible in the modern world, and this is a very minor compromise.

All this complaining about Apple is pretty ironic, too... what about Microsoft, who has tied the most insecure browser on the planet into their system so tightly that it is impossible to remove? You simply can't escape that kind of thing unless you switch to something like Linux, and even then I'm sure there are things you can't or shouldn't remove.