How to Delete apps from iOS 10…

If you were waiting for the feature that allow you to delete or remove iOS stock applications then you’ve good time to go. Finally, Apple introduced the feature that allows users to delete or uninstall apps from iOS 10.

Yeah, the first beta and the second beta also confirm that users can actually delete apps from iOS 10 firmware and it can be reinstall easily when user want. Thus, you’ve win win situation to customize your iPhone as well as iPad too.

So if you think that you don’t need a bunch of iOS 10 stock apps and if you want to remove some of useless apps or game center, you can easily tap on that app and just tap again on the cross icon at the right of the app at top corner and delete it to free up storage or your iPhone or iPad.

Suppose, you think again some time later after deleting apps from iOS 10 that you need that particular app that you’ve removed earlier, you can easily go to Apple App Store and search that app by the name of that app as keyword in the search box and once you found it on Apple app store, just tap it to get it back, isn’t it simple?

There are bunch of stock apps available on iOS that we normally never use in daily life even in a life such as Game Center, Compass, Tips or News app. In this situation, iOS 10 allows you to uninstall apps from your iOS 10 platform and if you change your mind later, you can easily reinstall stock apps from Apple App Store for free.

Why You Should Not Delete Stock Apps

  1. If you’ve Apple Watch, you know that it would sync your iPhone apps too. In such cases, if you’d remove any iPhone stock apps from iOS 10, it would be uninstalled automatically from Apple Watch too.
  2. By removing Weather, News, Stocks apps, the data related to those apps won’t appear on notification center or anywhere else.
  3. Suppose, you go to delete Calculator application, the Calculator app won’t be accessed within Control Center.
  4. You may have noticed useless Contacts app which can be easily accessed within Phone app, so you can remove Contacts app and all the contacts would be access from Phone app too.
  5. Music app is synced with your CarPlay so if you decide to remove it, you won’t be able to use it within CarPlay or Control Center.
  6. Suppose you decide to delete Watch App, you’d be unable to use Apple Watch with your iPhone to receive calls or SMS or any alert of your iPhone data.

iOS 10 Stock Apps List Which are compatible for uninstall

  1. Compass
  2. Calendar
  3. Contacts
  4. Find My iPhone
  5. iBooks
  6. iTunes
  7. Maps
  8. Mail
  9. FaceTime
  10. Calculator
  11. Home
  12. iCloud Drive
  13. Podcasts
  14. Notes
  15. Music
  16. News
  17. Reminders
  18. Tips
  19. Stocks
  20. Weather
  21. Watch App
  22. Voice Memos

How to Uninstall iOS 10 Stock Apps

If you’ve deleted any third party app or apps from your iPhone ever, you would know how to delete apps from iOS. Check below steps to verify how easy it is…

  1. Tap and hold any stock app from your iPhone home screen.
  2. Icon would start jingle, just tap on cross icon at the top right corner.
  3. System would ask you to confirm, just tap on Delete again.
  4. Done

Suppose, you change your mind and wanna install any of deleted app from iPhone then just open App Store and tap on Search box. In the search box, type the name of your stock app that you wanna reinstall and tap enter. From the search result, choose that app and tap on get it icon. Done.

Smart Tip: You can easily lock any of stock apps or third party apps using App Locker. AppLocker is the Cydia tweak that can be used to lock down any application installed on your iPhone or iPad which can be access with pre defined password. So, if you’ve jailbroken device, install App Locker Cydia tweak.

You can comment below to ask anything related to remove apps from iOS.