Dear Aunt TUAW: How do I make iTunes forget my apps?

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I'm hoping they do incorporate this feature in the future and don't think it would be a big problem.

Amazon supports this feature with it's Kindle ebooks. They track your entire library and save the files online, but if you find a book you want to permanently want to delete, go to the kindle settings and delete the book. Once it's gone, it's gone. Want to read it again you'll have to buy it again.

I'm hoping they eventually add the ability to sort purchased apps by category/size/date.

or a simple "hide" radio-button, with an Unhide page not too far away..

Or a simple "hide" option, with an "unhide" buried not too far away..

This just doesn't make sense -- the Purchased area on iOS devices is no different to the purchase history in iTunes. On an iOS device it allows you to re-download an app -- as an example, just de-install an app but need it quickly when you're away from your computer, no need to panic, just go to the Purchased area and install over the air, as if you're purchasing it for the first time.

In iTunes, apart from the purchase history, Apps either show the "price", "free" or "downloaded" so you can tell at a glance which app you've bought/not bought so it serves a dual purpose.

When i need to get rid of an App altogether, I do this in iTunes, and it gives me the option of keeping it in a disabled apps folder or deleting it from my HD altogether, but doing the latter still allows me to download the app from the Store at a later date.

(I did exactly that with an App that showed up as having been updated to Version 3, but every time I downloaded it, it appeared as Ver 1.2. Deleted the App from HD, re-downloaded and contacted the developer who confirmed my suspicion that someone had forgotten to update the version details.)

This is a hot topic on Apple's forums. This was a great post by someone: None of it is off topic. There are many reasons why this needs to be fixed. I think at the root of the whole thing it is admirable that Apple figured out a way that we can redownload what we rightfully purchased. Use to be if you deleted an app all together off your device and from iTunes, you could never get it back. But in the advent of Home Sharing, and the fact that sometimes adults order things the kids just don't need to see, I think Apple really should put an engineer at this and give us a way to clean up the purchase history. I'm 100% fine with the dialogue warning box "If you delete this app, it will be removed from your purchase history forever" - I'd rather have that and be able to go through and clean up the history than have my whole "pre Home Sharing" purchase history visible to my whole family. They could also only make this doable from iTune instead of in-device - require the password to confirm deletion so it is even one step harder to accidentally delete an app.

This actually has swayed me from making more purchases in the past week. I second think before I buy or try a free app because I know it will be listed forever. That alone I think would make the money machine at Apple want a way to fix this.

Amazon allows this feature with the ebooks that you purchased through them. They keep all purchases, even your free ones, available in the cloud to redownload as needed. However, you can permanently remove a purchase from your cloud.

Maybe just don't download porn apps? Accidental... ;-)

This is such a timely post! Just a few minutes ago, I was checking the "purchased" tab on my iPhone, and there appeared a sheer endless list of Justin Bieber-related (free) apps. My 11-year old daughter doesn't have a credit card, so she can use my .mac account. But this list is not only embarrassing, it is also an enormous pollution of my user experience.
I hope Apple reads this.