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Q: Delete iWatch App

How can I delete the iWatch app? I thought the latest iOS update was focused on "critical security updates" not bundled spam ad-ons.

 

My phone is full of BS apps that I can't delete, taking precious GB. My "useless apps" page is now two pages.

Posted on Mar 11, 2015 3:44 AM

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  • by stedman1,

    stedman1 stedman1 Mar 11, 2015 3:47 AM in response to lacarids
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    Mar 11, 2015 3:47 AM in response to lacarids

    As always, you can not delete built-in Apps. However, it does lead to another question: if you have 2 pages of useless Apps, which Apps DO you use? And if you are using so few, why did you purchase a smartphone?

  • by lacarids,

    lacarids lacarids Mar 13, 2015 5:11 PM in response to stedman1
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    Mar 13, 2015 5:11 PM in response to stedman1

    Sted, you're missing the point. Completely. I don't need Apple to choose my apps for me.

     

    Since you asked, the ones from my "useless apps" pages that come to mind are notes, contacts, calendar, tips, nike, podcasts, health, stocks, maps, reminders, passbook, newsstand, books, passbook, clock, and safari. Now, the latest one: watch. Is there anyone that can tell me why Apple would bundle an app that no one can use?

     

    I'm not saying that no one should use these apps. I don't use them, and I don't want them taking up space on my phone. If they're truly useful, users would download them from the app store.

     

    In response to your question "if you are using so few, why did you purchase a smartphone?" I'm NOT using "so few" apps. I'm using so few bundled undeletable apps. Ones that I find useful are irrelevant. Instead of listing them, I'll propose a counter question: What's the point of calling it an "iPhone" if the user has so little liberty to set it up as he chooses? Maybe it should be called an "Apple smart phone"

  • by frazzm737,

    frazzm737 frazzm737 Mar 13, 2015 6:04 PM in response to lacarids
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    Mar 13, 2015 6:04 PM in response to lacarids

    You cannot delete system apps, but you can bundle them into a folder which you can place on a seldom used screen and you will forget they are even there. 

  • by Meg St._Clair,

    Meg St._Clair Meg St._Clair Mar 13, 2015 9:21 PM in response to lacarids
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    Mar 13, 2015 9:21 PM in response to lacarids

    lacarids wrote:

     

     

    In response to your question "if you are using so few, why did you purchase a smartphone?" I'm NOT using "so few" apps. I'm using so few bundled undeletable apps. Ones that I find useful are irrelevant. Instead of listing them, I'll propose a counter question: What's the point of calling it an "iPhone" if the user has so little liberty to set it up as he chooses? Maybe it should be called an "Apple smart phone"

    I don't think the "i" in iPhone means what you think it does.

  • by lacarids,

    lacarids lacarids Mar 19, 2015 9:21 AM in response to Meg St._Clair
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    Mar 19, 2015 9:21 AM in response to Meg St._Clair

    Hmm, what does it stand for?

    Meg St._Clair wrote: I don't think the "i" in iPhone means what you think it does.
  • by Meg St._Clair,

    Meg St._Clair Meg St._Clair Mar 19, 2015 10:04 AM in response to lacarids
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    Mar 19, 2015 10:04 AM in response to lacarids

    There are many theories but, based on Apple's track record of giving peple what it thinks they need, rather that what people think the way, I'm willing to bet money, it has absolutely noting to do with "individual'.

  • by p645250,

    p645250 p645250 Mar 19, 2015 1:49 PM in response to lacarids
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    Mar 19, 2015 1:49 PM in response to lacarids

    I cannot believe the audacity of confiscating more space on my iPhone; repeat, MY iPhone. I'm hoping that a lot of people will complain and Apple with come to realize what an invasion this is. This is starting to make me look at the 'Droid world again.

  • by Meg St._Clair,

    Meg St._Clair Meg St._Clair Mar 19, 2015 7:10 PM in response to p645250
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    Mar 19, 2015 7:10 PM in response to p645250

    p645250 wrote:

     

    I cannot believe the audacity of confiscating more space on my iPhone; repeat, MY iPhone. I'm hoping that a lot of people will complain and Apple with come to realize what an invasion this is. This is starting to make me look at the 'Droid world again.

    Before you make your melodramatic exit from the world of Apple products, be sure you check out what comes pre-installed on Android phones.

  • by FelipeV,

    FelipeV FelipeV Mar 19, 2015 7:23 PM in response to p645250
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    Mar 19, 2015 7:23 PM in response to p645250

    p645250 wrote:

     

    This is starting to make me look at the 'Droid world again.

    What makes you think anyone here cares?

  • by Allan Eckert,

    Allan Eckert Allan Eckert Mar 19, 2015 7:25 PM in response to p645250
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    Mar 19, 2015 7:25 PM in response to p645250

    Bye. Maybe you can do your whining and moaning over there instead of here then.

  • by Azizzah1125,

    Azizzah1125 Azizzah1125 Apr 18, 2015 9:24 AM in response to lacarids
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    Apr 18, 2015 9:24 AM in response to lacarids

    This is my same question exactly. No one is complaining just for the sake of complaining. Everyone seems to think all things Apple is glittered in gold, but this is a very basic question that should be an easy solution for Apple to solve. I just don't understand why you don't have the option to delete apps that you absolutely don't use. So when people do say, "Well, I'll just get an Android" everyone groans, but it's not out of spite lol. It's simply much less headache.

  • by Meg St._Clair,

    Meg St._Clair Meg St._Clair Apr 18, 2015 9:29 AM in response to Azizzah1125
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    Apr 18, 2015 9:29 AM in response to Azizzah1125

    Azizzah1125 wrote:

     

    This is my same question exactly.

    And your question was answered in the second post in this thread. If you didn't want to complain, you would simply have read the answer and moved on.

     

    Submit any feedback you have for Apple here:

     

    http://www.apple.com/feedback

  • by Azizzah1125,

    Azizzah1125 Azizzah1125 Apr 18, 2015 1:18 PM in response to Meg St._Clair
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    Apr 18, 2015 1:18 PM in response to Meg St._Clair

    Key sentence "No one is complaining for the sake of complaining." Questions and complaints are voiced with the intention of Apple Support reading them and saying, "Hmm, well that might be something we look into since we keep hearing the same things over and over again."

  • by Meg St._Clair,

    Meg St._Clair Meg St._Clair Apr 18, 2015 1:23 PM in response to Azizzah1125
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    Apr 18, 2015 1:23 PM in response to Azizzah1125

    Azizzah1125 wrote:

     

    Key sentence "No one is complaining for the sake of complaining." Questions and complaints are voiced with the intention of Apple Support reading them and saying, "Hmm, well that might be something we look into since we keep hearing the same things over and over again."

    Complaining here is, essentially, complaining for the sake of complaining as Apple doesn't read here. Use the feedback link.

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