How do I delete unwanted iWatch app?

Apple does it again. Installed iWatch app without my permission during upgrade to iOS8.2. Didn't they learn from the last debacle with the unwanted music album? How do I get rid of it?

iPhone 6, iOS 8.2

Posted on Mar 10, 2015 1:02 PM

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Mar 20, 2015 10:33 AM in response to Sam in Oregon

Any progress on this issue? I just updated my wife's iP5 to IOS 8 and got an earful. I can't blame her really since one of the appeals of IOS is the lack of mfg and carrier bloatware that you get otherwise and then here you go, Apple adding more unwanted bloatware without an option to remove it. I wish I would have noticed before she did and I would have hid it in a folder with the other rarely (if ever) used apps. Apple did provide a way to remove the forced U2 download, so hope springs eternal. She didn't react so strongly to the Fitness app so this probably has more to do with exhaustion from Apple's iWatch media onslaught than anything. Sign of the times I suppose.

Mar 20, 2015 11:10 AM in response to rojas01420

rojas01420 wrote:


I am sure once they sell enough watches they will then give users an option to remove or hide the app like using restrictions or something. It's just simple marketing, many user are going to buy one regardless but some will buy one simply because the app in the phone

I have no idea where you came up with that one. So far Apple has not done that with any of their other apps that were part of iOS so why should they start now?

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