Iphone hacked? Null app in settings

Hi gillescoens,

So my understanding is that you found in your iPhone's settings an app that doesn't appear anywhere else. You don't know what it is and are concerned with your data security, is that right?

It is hard to say where this came from, but it is possible that this is just an app that was incompletely synced. I would suggest that you re-sync your iPhone with iTunes on your computer to see if the issue resolves itself. This article shows how - Sync your iPhone, iPad, and iPod with iTunes using USB.

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Sincerely.

I had a similar issue just now after upgrading my iPad 3 to iOS9 but was due to a NewsStand App. Fixed it using a combination of the comments in

Re: "Null" app can't be deleted

Retracing my steps:

1. Upgraded to iOS9

2. As 'NewsStand' has been discontinued a new Folder with all my old NewsStand Apps appeared.

3. As I had no more need for these deleted all these apps & folder

4. Then just happened to see the same (null) app under main Settings Page as the OP Joeden1946

5. Then from 'Settings' clicked through 'General --> Storage & iCloud Usage --> Storage: Manage Storage'

6. Scrolled down (as have many ,many apps this took a while) but found the null icon and tried to 'Delete App'.

7. Restarted Settings but (null) app was still there - (maybe should have tried a hard reset to see if it had disappeared)

8. Repeated steps 5 & 6 and found a version number 2.1.73

9. Ran a Google search on 'version 2.1.73 ipad' and had seen halfway done the list 'BBC Good Food Magazine' - one of the apps I deleted in step 3.

10. Redownloaded app, opened up 'BBC Good Food Magazine', ran 'restore purchases' (but had none), iPad froze and automatically rebooted.

11. After reboot went back to 'Settings' and (null) app no longer there. Yippee!!!

12. Repeated step 5 and found the app 'BBC Good Food' and deleted it.

iPad 3, iOS9

It was good that he was able to identify what app it was. I'm in a similar spot with iOS 9 beta and have a null app show in Settings. If I could only figure out what app it was, I'd be able to do something about it. Sync hasn't worked for me...

I have this issue on my 6S and I can't fix it.

There is no icon in manage storage, and when I click delete it comes back seconds later. Also the version number is 1.7 so no great clues there, tons of apps have had a version 1.7.

This is super frustrating. I expect more from a company like Apple charging $1500 for a phone. Apple has certainly lost their high levels of polish lately.

I know the problem is solved now, but I had the same problem and solved it in another way that I'd like to share.

I didn't know what app caused this defect, but by going to Settings > General > Storage & iCloud Usage > Manage Storage (for local storage) I found the nameless app. By tapping on it, I had the option Delete App which get rid of the problem.

I'm glad to hear it's fixed.

Be well.

Did you report it?

The iOS 9 Beta cannot be discussed publicly, something you agreed to when you signed up to use it.

Yeah, reported.

Good, maybe in the next iteration it will be fixed.

Thank you! Found the null app from the Manage Storage and deleted. No idea what it was since the version number was so generic and I've got so many apps. Maybe one day I'll miss it.

iOS 9.0.2 fixed this issue for me.

This did the trick for me. Just go to Manage Storage and find the app then delete it.

I accidentally deleted my vsco app and now I find its icon on my settings as a (null) app. I wish to redownload it from app store but I can't. do you know how to fix this? Thank you

I did your instructions. It deleted the null app with the vsco's icon from my settings but I still can't redownload the app from app store