Delete iWatch App

I'm an Apple user from way back (decades!), and the appearance of the Watch app was confusing to me. Why is it there? I'm not planning to purchase an Apple Watch (at least not in the foreseeable future), and if/when I do, I'd rather download any pertinent app at that time. Randomly placing it on my phone is bewildering. I have a 64GB iPhone 6 Plus, so "room" is not a problem. But like the OP, I'd like to be able to delete those apps that aren't critical to the operation of my phone. Reasonable request, no matter what the platform.

Unfortunately Apple seems to feel like they have to "install" apps whether you want them or use them. Would be nice if they gave us a choice.

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Apple has generally not given users much choice, since the beginning. Apple provides what they think you need, rather than what you think you need. As a couple of examples:

• When the original Mac was released Apple prepared by conducting extensive focus group studies on user interface controls. The one that virtually every focus session rejected as a really stupid idea was the mouse.
• Apple was the first to ship a computer with no floppy disk drive. The industry pundits laughed and told Apple computers without floppy drives would never sell.
• In 2007 virtually every industry "expert" predicted that the iphone would be a huge flop.

The Apple Watch app is tiny; actually, when I installed 8.2 it freed up a small amount of memory, giving me more memory than I had before. It joins a long list of apps that come preinstalled (mail, contacts, calendar, maps, messages, facetime, weather, stocks, game center, podcasts, music, newsstand, clock, reminders, phone, itunes store, app store, voice memos, safari, and probably a few I missed). I simply move the ones I don't use to a junk folder and put it on the last page of my home screen. They really don't bother me there.

Then take it up with Apple. If the feedback link is insufficient, write a letter to corporate headquarters.

You are upsetting the wrong people here. We can't do anything about so complaining to us id worthless. Instead complain to Apple at http://www.apple.com/feedback/iphone.html

Of course, none of us has to buy anything that Apple has to offer if we don't like it. Period. There is certainly enough competition out there offering similar products. Whatever Apple puts on its items is there for a purpose - at least to them. No one put a gun to my head and made me purchase my Apple products; I did it because I like them and the apps, while a pain, is just one of those things I'm willing to tolerate. YMMV.