{"id":84378,"date":"2016-01-05T15:03:25","date_gmt":"2016-01-05T13:03:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/?p=84378"},"modified":"2025-07-02T00:06:31","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T07:06:31","slug":"get-rid-of-default-icons-on-ios","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/get-rid-of-default-icons-on-ios\/","title":{"rendered":"TOP TIP! How to get rid of the default icons on iOS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>All iPhone and iPad users have applications they don\u2019t use, especially those apps that iOS doesn\u2019t permit you to delete, yet they still take up space on your home screen. Today, we\u2019ll bring you a <strong>top tip that will allow you to lose sight of those useless apps<\/strong>. (Please note, this trick only works for iOS9)<\/p>\n<p>To delete an app from the home screen on your iPhone or iPad\u2026<\/p>\n<p><strong>1)<\/strong> Drag the application icon into a new folder.<\/p>\n<p><strong>2)<\/strong> Once inside, move the icon to the second page of the folder.<\/p>\n<p><strong>3) <\/strong> Drag it again to the third page of the folder.<\/p>\n<p><strong>4)<\/strong> Now hold the icon with your finger and at the same time press the Home button on your iPhone or iPad.<\/p>\n<p><strong>5)<\/strong> The icon has disappeared!<\/p>\n<p>Note that this method does not delete the application from your device, it will simply be hidden from the screen. If you do wish to use the application, it will still be accessible from the \u201cFind\u201d option on your device.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s easy, right?\u00a0 If you&#8217;re still not quite sure how it works, you can always take a look at this extremely easy <strong>video tutorial.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If you don&#8217;t see the video, please click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=TpeP42GH0OY\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All iPhone and iPad users have applications they don\u2019t use, especially those apps that iOS doesn\u2019t permit you to delete, yet they still take up space on your home screen. Today, we\u2019ll bring you a top tip that will allow you to lose sight of those useless apps. (Please note, this trick only works for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/get-rid-of-default-icons-on-ios\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;TOP TIP! How to get rid of the default icons on iOS&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2041,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[2441],"tags":[],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-84378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-how-to"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2041"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84378"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84378\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":329396,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84378\/revisions\/329396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84378"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=84378"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=84378"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=84378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}