hacksugar: Hiding Apple's built-in applications

all you really have to do is move them to the "12th screen" in iTunes. The apps will still be on the phone, but won't show up on the screen.

Of course, if you don't have 11 screens of apps like I do, you may not ever get to that 12th screen... (FYI, I don't have THAT many apps, I just keep them categorized, so I use 11 pages.)

I wrote the original hint on maxosxhints. I posted the hint because I didn't like the idea of jailbreaking and I didn't want these useless apps sitting on a "unused screen" I found this method after inspecting how the system hid applications via the restrictions settings.

I eventually did warm up to jailbreaking my phone so I myself am not using this method anymore. As others have posted, I now use SBSettings to hide unwanted applications from my homescreens.

I do still believe that this method offers a good way to hide applications without jailbreaking but I really wish that a mac application would allow us to do this with more ease.

The method required is similar to what CaptionCrunch used to allow mac users to change their carrier name without Jailbreaking a while back. Essentially exploiting the iPhones restore from backup feature to push modified plist files onto the phone.

This seems overly complicated...just install SBSettings, then go into the settings menu and it gives you the ability to hide apps right there, without the need for all of this. Of course you need to be jailbroken to do all of this.

This is very very cool. I can't stand some of those built in apps. Thanks.
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Just put them on your last screen. You'll almost forget that they exist

Contacts is one of those 50/50 apps. 50% of users love it, 50% of users hate it.

It wasn't there before in OS 1.0, so people asked for it, and Apple put it there in a later version (2.0 maybe?). Now with all the icons we have, it causes clutter. However for people who want to get to contacts from their home screen, rather than go into the phone app and tap on contacts, it was a good shortcut at the time and one some people still probably use.

Apps like stocks and weather are less popular and more clutter causers. Weather is okay for your average person who just wants a quick temp and possible outlook, but I don't know anyone who really uses stocks, because anyone who is heavy into reviewing their stocks is going to find a better program than that.

Stocks is truly a pariah, everything else has a use. However, for those who don't want the apps, there should be a way to completely make them disappear and not just hide them in folders.

yeah i never understood why apple doesnt let us hide them like they do that nike app, you want it on my phone fine, let me take it off my home screens...ahh well after 3 iterations, folders will be here soon enough

I wish you could manually remove them within iTunes like 3rd party apps. I never saw the point in having a completely separate 'Contacts' app when there already is one in within 'Phone'.

Yeah, this might have been useful in the past, but just wait a few more months until 4.0, Folder's is awesome.

My phone wasn't crammed full, but I have reduced Eight pages to One and a half pages including a couple of removals because when you get to tidy up as much as that, you tend to realise some thing's that you simply don't use don't need to be on there any more :-)

I love it when Apple does a major update, iPhone o/s is evolving nicely and Apple always has a nack of coming up with nice ways of achieving solutions like when they added the jiggle icon's management, cut, copy & paste and now folders. When they do decide to take on-board improvements from suggestions, they just come up with much better idea's than those banded around by people before hand!

Sounds like overkill. Right now I just cram the few I don't use off to the last page, and in a few months when 4.0 hits, i'll just put them all in a folder on the last page.