How to permanently delete Apps from all devices and the iCloud.

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How to permanently delete Apps from all devices and the iCloud.

In iOS the user must be in control of own data, including the possibility to allow or deny to have Apps stored in the iCloud. One must be able to permanently delete a selected App from both all devices and the iCloud, including the entry in the purchase history, with a single operation. One must also be able to permanently delete all Apps at once, if one wants to. If you have information on how to do this, please share it here. If no such information is available, because Apple does not implement it, then please post here in support of this feature.

iPhone 4S, iOS 6

Posted on Oct 11, 2012 1:39 AM

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Answer 1

Oct 12, 2012 3:37 AM in response to Community User

To check if you are affected, open the App Store, click on Updates, then Purchased, then "not in this iPhone". You will be presented with the list of Apps that you thought you have deleted from the iPhone and the iTunes on your Mac. The Apps are still in the iCloud, however. The question is, how to permanently delete them.

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Answer 2

Oct 8, 2015 7:57 AM in response to Community User

After three years, this is still a problem...

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Answer 3

King_Penguin

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Oct 8, 2015 8:02 AM in response to Community User

You can't permanently delete any item from your account's purchase history (you can hide them from the cloud via your computer's iTunes so that they don't show in the Purchased sections for redownloading) - you can try leaving feedback for Apple about it, but it's probably unlikely to change : http://www.apple.com/feedback

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Answer 4

Oct 8, 2015 11:35 AM in response to King_Penguin

No, it doesn't work any more, you cannot hide them either

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Answer 5

King_Penguin

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Oct 8, 2015 12:03 PM in response to Eduardo Vin

Yes you can, just click on the app's top left corner where the 'x' should be (the 'x' has't shown on apps for quite a while) and the app should become hidden

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Answer 6

Oct 9, 2015 7:09 AM in response to King_Penguin

My question concerns the fundamental rights of the paying customers over the data collected by Apple.

Apple allows the client to "hide" the listing of purchased items. However, the listing is still in Apple's databases!

Although the EULA is too long, and therefore I did not read it, there are more general laws that

overrule any EULA. One such law is the European Data Protection, that allows individuals to demand

corrections or deleting of their data. Yes, Apple has its HQ in the USA. However, the Apple Store has

national branches across the lucrative European market, where European laws apply, and therefore

Apple *must* allow its European clients to correct or delete their own data, emphasis on *must*.

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Answer 7

Csound1

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Oct 9, 2015 7:11 AM in response to Community User

There is no legal right to alter history,

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Answer 8

Oct 9, 2015 7:13 AM in response to Csound1

Europeans have legal rights over their own data.

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Answer 9

Csound1

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Oct 9, 2015 7:20 AM in response to Community User

Your purchase history is not your data, you have no rights over it.

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Answer 10

Oct 9, 2015 7:21 AM in response to Community User

In the case of iTunes purchases, the data also belongs to Apple. Its is part of a mutual transaction and in no way is Apple required to delete or purge it, or allow you to do so. The data protection laws apply to publicly available data, which this is not.

You really should get over your short attention span read those terms of use agreements.

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Answer 11

Oct 9, 2015 10:30 AM in response to Csound1

Any personally identifiable data is personal data. If you are a European citizen,

your personal data is protected by the European Data Protection law.

Your purchase history with Apple is part of your personal data,

because Apple stores that data in a non-anonymous form.

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Answer 12

Oct 9, 2015 10:34 AM in response to Kilgore-Trout

Are you paying attention?

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Answer 13

Oct 9, 2015 10:38 AM in response to Community User

one-to-one wrote:

Are you paying attention?

Yes I am. But evidently you aren't. Your assessment of what the law provides is simply inaccurate. Consult a lawyer if you feel that strongly about it. It will be easy money for him to tell you no as well.

At any rate, you certainly aren't going to hear what you want or expect on this forum. It is not something we can help you with other than to point out reality, and that obviously doesn't work for you.

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