So you’ve downloaded, perhaps even purchased, some of the new iPhone/iPod Touch apps from the App Store. Then you discovered you don’t really want or need that app. This tutorial will guide you in deleting it from your iPhone or iPod Touch.
- On the springboard, locate the app you want to delete. For this example, I’ll use WeatherBug.
- Tap and hold down the icon of the application you want to delete. After a few seconds your screen will start to “wiggle” and an X will appear next to each of the apps you’ve installed via the App Store.
- Tap the X next to the icon of the app you want to remove. When prompted, select Delete.
- And now it’s gone.
- If the application is listed in your iTunes Applications as well, you’ll want to remove it from there – or else it will re-install the next time you sync. Alternately you can keep the app in your iTunes Applications, and set iTunes not to sync all applications, just the ones you want to keep. See the Applications tab of your device the next time it’s connected in iTunes for syncing options.
- NOTE: you can also re-order/move the apps on your iPod Touch or iPhone using a very similar process.
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Thanks get info. .there are NO instructions for the IPOD. I bought an IPOD touch book and nowhere did it say how to delete icons; However I did learn a LOT from it. Get a book and you will learn a lot more about your IPOD Touch or Iphone.
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Thanks for the tip, and even more helpful…
If you do the wiggle, X, delete function while still attached to iTunes, the app list will automatically change in iTunes to an uncheck in front of those apps that you just deleted from your device. This will ensure that those deleted apps will not be replaced on your device but can remain in iTunes idle if you should change your mind and want them back. Cheers.
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this is a realy helpful website it told me right what i needed!!!
thanks for all your great help
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Ducky
Thanks, friend! I’ve been trying to do this for a while and I couldn’t figure out why my applications didn’t disappear after I removed them from the Applications section of iTunes. Thanks to you, problem solved
your suggestion did not work for Nike + iPod. The app did not show the + sign.
How can I get rid of it?
Thanks
Peter
thnx so much for the tip! i can finnaly delete apps i dont want
Hi, I Just had the issue of an icon constantly ‘loading’ and you can’t press and hold to get the ‘x’ to delete it.
The solution was to turn off the unit (a 2nd Gen touch 32GB) by pressing and holding the sleep button (on top left edge of the unit) to give you a ’swipe’ option to power off the touch fully. Then when you restart you should see the apple logo (otherwise you’re probably not rebooting) and the application should have fully loaded or disappeared according to where you where in downloading I reckon.
Anyway this is what worked for me. Sorry if it doesn’t address your issue.
Thanks a lot! I cant believe that was so easy
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Thank you. That was so easy.
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Thank You. Can’t believe it was that easy. I thought I just got suckered into installing a bunchof free apps.
Thanx Jake…
I am still trying to get rid of the apps I don’t want that came with the itouch. I have no interest in looking up my stocks while I am listening to music. How can I get ride of them???
thanks
Thats cool, u can also shift apps around the screen by holding them and moving around!!!!!!
I tried for hours before I gave up and found your helpful hint. Thank you so much!
I’m with firefiter (#75) – I want to get rid of some of the apps that came installed on the iPod Touch. This tutorial helped me remove a few *I* had added that I ended up not using, but there are still a few pre-installed ones I want to jettison. I did move them to the end of the list (second page) so I don’t have to see them all the time, but I’d rather they were gone.
This helped me so, so much. It’s not every day that you come across a website so clear, simple, and helpful. That’s awesome. Thanks!!!
Ok, I’m not a noob, I already knew how to do this, but my problem is that whenever the icon is wobbling and the x appears, I still can’t delete it, even when I press the x. Email me if you can help. Cheers.
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Thank you!
Great Help. Simple and to the point
this was more helpfull than the iphone website..thanks!! and it was so simple i couldnt believe it!
it was really helpful….thanks
how to u delete the apps that came with the ipod so like stocks , notes ect…..
When I tap my app icons on home screen and hold it for a couple second they don’t even wiggle. It is jail broken 1.1.5 with a capatible patch on it for 1.1.4 . Is there anything I can do to make this work so I can move the apps where I want??thanks
how do you delete the Nike + IPod app from the iTouch
Hey, Sounds easy but i don’t get the x on the apps! I have the iphone mini, it shouldn’t be any different! the icons still wiggle, but i cant delete or re-arange the icons!! help
well Rose the problem might be that you installed basic apps which cannot be deleted on home screen, so an X wont appear on them. But im not sure about the not being able to move the icons.
Also if u jailbreaked ur itouch than u cant move icons if it was a pre-january update. U can tell if the itouch has the january update is by seeing if u have the, weather, maps, mail, etc. apps. But most likley it still would so u should backup ur files and reset ur itouch if u know how search it on google or type back
WOW…..of course it had to be that simple. It’s a Mac and I love it for that!
thanx a lot
You DON’T want to delete Stocks!! (Even if you think you do!!) The reason: you can do stuff with Stocks besides use it to find out about stocks. The app Stocks also does currency conversion, for example, which you are sooner or later gonna need in everyday real life….
Leave Stocks on there… really!!
Thanx so muchxxx
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How do i delete te pre installed apps????
Thank you. That was a simple straight forward answer.
Thanks Lorenzo for explaining how to remove apps you have installed from Cydia.