Daily TipsiPhone

How to hide an app on your iPhone’s home screen

If there’s an app on your iPhone home screen that you rarely use, but don’t want to delete, you can “hide” it. Here’s how if you have an iPhone running iOS 14 or later:

° Press and hold the icon of the app you want to hide.

° A pop-up menu will appear with several options (they’ll vary depending on what type of app we’re talking about).

° Tap Remove from Home Screen.

The app will remain on your iPhone, but is “invisible” until you go to your App Library (which can be found by swiping all the way to the right, through and past all of your home screen pages) and do a search for the app in question. 

Once found, press and hold on the app icon (not the grey bar to its right). A pop-up menu will appear giving you the option to an Add to Home Screen,

Dennis Sellers
the authorDennis Sellers
Dennis Sellers is the editor/publisher of Apple World Today. He’s been an “Apple journalist” since 1995 (starting with the first big Apple news site, MacCentral). He loves to read, run, play sports, and watch movies.