Deleting apps from the iPhone

I don't have that many, but I could do without stocks and weather.

same thin ghere after restoring my apps stayed hidden cool huh? but apple shoudl just include a feature similar to how u can sync/unsync appstore apps?

How about you try going to settings>General>Restrictions, and block some of the programs you do not want on the home screen, they will disappear. No Exploit to jailbreak just using implemnted features, now apple failed when they didnt include ALL apps on the iphone into the list but its a start.

I use Boss Prefs on my jailbroken iPhone and use the Hide functionality to remove Weather and Stocks. Funny enough, when 2.1 came out and I installed the non jailbroken firmware, those icons remained hidden. Good to know.

Guess not.

Anyway, I keep apps I don't use on the last page with my less oft used apps:

Settings / App Store / iTunes / YouTube / Stocks / Notes / Contacts / Light / 1Password

It's unlikely I'll scroll to my 4th page unless I need one of those. Out of sight. Out of mind.

On jailbroken iPhones, you can also SSH into your phone to edit the info.plist file to hide an app by default. That would be a little less of a drastic measurement than deleting the whole app as suggested in the 5th comment, wouldn't it?
Google it. I think macosxhints has a how-to about it. Not sure though.

Not sure why anyone would want App Store to go off screen... and I find it hard to believe very many would want to get rid of Contact, Phone, and Calendar either.

At any rate, what bugs me is that even in 2.1 they didn't address the fact that 9 pages is far, far too many. I mean, they've SEEN how huge the App Store is turning out to be, and they know by now that 9 pages is paltry.

But maybe they're working on a more drastic change to the homescreen than just adding more pages. I hope they don't plan to just leave it like this.

Unrelated: How can Apple's stock constantly plummet while their sales continue to grow at a constant basis? As far as I can see Apple is the only company who doesn't appear to have suffered from the economic situation... if traders had half a wit they would be dumping all their other stocks to buy MORE AAPL!

I'm sorry, this really aggravates me.

It's far less a waste of energy to blog about it than do nothing. This is how people are educated and eventually demand changes!

Blog more, PLEASE.

We all need to complain to AT&T about this blatant waste of materials and have them change their policy. It worked with their novel-sized data usage bills of the early iPhone days. It has to work here. There is absolutely no reason for this.

As for plastic bags in general...you don't need one for your pack of gum and you don't need one for your bagel or cheeseburger. In fact, if you bought one or two things, you don't need a bag period. Toughen up and carry the damn things. Your minor "inconvenience" is hardly worth the wasted one-use piece of plastic built on foreign oil or predominantly virgin paper bags made with trees from our beautiful but diminishing forests.

Oh, and you can be polite when you decline: "I don't need a bag, but thank you."

This isn't about being a tree-hugging hippie, this should just be common sense.

-Marcel Ray

This is odd but on my un-jailbroken iPhone version 2.1, I do NOT have the Stocks and Notes(I use Evernote) apps installed on my phone. Curious indeed...

It's really not necessary to go to all that trouble just to get them off the screen. For example, on my iPod touch, I've got five "pages" - the first is a bunch of commonly-used things, completely full. The second is some more fairly commonly-used apps, but with six spaces empty. The third is games, with a few spaces empty. The fourth is web shortcuts, just five of them with the rest empty. The fifth page is Stocks and Weather, which I don't use. They just stay on that fifth page and I never have to worry about them.