How to uninstall an ios app you can’t find on the home screen

The app will still be accessible through the App Library but will no longer be featured on your Home screen. This will make sure all the apps on the Home screen of your iPhone are exactly what you want. For more great tutorials on Apple products, check out our Tip of the Day.

With iOS 10, you can remove some built-in Apple apps from the Home screen on your iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, or Apple Watch.

When you remove a built-in app from your Home screen, you also remove any related user data and configuration files. This can affect things like related system functions or information on your Apple Watch.

The apps built into iOS are designed to be very space efficient, so all of them together use less than 200MB. Removing built-in iOS apps doesn’t free up storage space on your device.

Built-in apps you can remove from your Home screen

If you have iOS 10, you can remove 1 these apps from your Home screen:

• Calculator
• Calendar
• Compass
• Contacts 2
• FaceTime 3
• Find My Friends
• Home
• iBooks 4

• iCloud Drive
• iTunes Store
• Mail
• Maps 4
• Music 4
• News (where available)
• Notes
• Podcasts 4

• Reminders
• Stocks
• Tips
• Videos or TV
• Voice Memos
• Watch app 5
• Weather

1. With iOS 12, you can delete built-in apps from the Home screen on your device. See this article for more information on built-in apps in iOS 12.
2. If you remove the Contacts app, all of your contact information will remain in the Phone app.
3. If you remove the FaceTime app, you can still make and receive FaceTime calls in Contacts and the Phone app.
4. If you remove the iBooks, Maps, Music, or Podcast apps, they won’t be available to use with CarPlay.
5. If you try to remove the Watch app from an iPhone that’s paired with an Apple Watch, an alert asks you to unpair your Apple Watch before you can remove the app.

Remove a built-in app from your Home screen

1. On your iOS device, touch and hold the app lightly until it jiggles. If the app doesn’t jiggle, make sure that you’re not pressing too hard.
2. Tap on the app, then tap Remove.
3. Press the Home button to finish.

If you have an Apple Watch, removing an app from your iPhone also removes that app from your Apple Watch.

Restore a built-in app that you removed

1. On your iOS device, go to the App Store.
2. Search for the app. Make sure that you use the exact name of the app. Find the correct name of built-in apps.
3. Tap to restore the app.
4. Wait for the app to restore, then open it from your Home screen.

If you have an Apple Watch, restoring an app to your iPhone also restores that app to your Apple Watch.

What happens when you remove built-in apps from your Home screen

Removing built-in apps from your Home screen can affect other system functionalities. Here are some examples:

• If you have an Apple Watch paired with your iPhone, removing an app from your iPhone Home screen also removes that app from your Apple Watch Home screen.
• If you remove the Podcasts app from your Home screen, Podcasts won’t be available with CarPlay.
• If you remove the Music app, you may be unable to play some audio content using Apple apps or third-party apps on some car stereos or stereo receivers.
• If you remove the Stocks or Weather app from your Home screen, stocks and weather won’t be available elsewhere. For example, you won’t see stocks and weather information in Notification Center on your iPhone or as Complications or Glances on your Apple Watch.
• If you remove the Calculator app, the calculator won’t appear in Control Center.

To restore an affected functionality, you can add built-in apps back to your Home screen.

by Jenefey Aaron Updated on 2021-05-11 / Update for iPhone Tips

The most common way to remove an app from iPhone/iPad is to tap and hold the app icon for seconds until all icons start wiggling. Then click the little x appearing. However, when the screen is full of apps and you have just downloaded another new program, it won’t appear on any of the screens. So if you want to uninstall apps you can’t find on the Home screen, please refer to below 4 tips to get hidden apps off iPhone 12/11/Xs/Xs/X/8/7/6 and iPad.

Option 1: Remove Installed App Can’t Find on iPhone Directly

Should there is an app you want to uninstall while the app icon is missing from either iPhone Home screen or any folder, you can remove unwanted background app directly from iPhone with Settings.

Head for Settings > General > Storage & iCloud Usage > Manage Storage, you will see all apps on your device demonstrated in order of memory size.

Find the hidden apps you no longer need from the list and hit it. There you go, with a choice to offload app from iPhone now.

Tip: One thing differing with this method from uninstalling apps on screen with little x is not only the app itself but also the related documents and data will be permanently removed, so it is also useful when you want to free up some space on your overburdened iPhone/iPad.

Option 2: One Click to Delete Hidden Apps on iPhone Permanently

Because the hiden app can’t be removed from your iPhone device, you need extra steps to uninstall the hidden apps. To quickly solve your problem, you can use Tenorshare iCareFone, to find hidden apps on iPhone and remove them permanently and you don’t need to worry the deleting appst gets installed again the next time you sync with iTunes.

Download and install Tenorshare iCareFone on your computer. After connecting your device, go to “Manage” tab from the top menu.

From the main interface, select “Apps” on the left pane. To remove apps in bulk, select all and click “Uninstall” button.

That’s all for how to find hidden apps on iPhone and delete apps on iPhone permanently.

Option 3: Delete an App from the App Library (for iOS 14 or later)

App Library introduced in iOS 14, is a new way to organize your iPhone’s apps. If you can’t find an app on the home screen, swipe to App Library and your apps are automatically sorted into categories here.

• From your Home Screen, swipe left until you see the App Library.
• Tap the search field to open the list.
• Touch and hold the app icon, then tap Delete App.

Tap Delete again to confirm.

Option 4: Delete Apps Missing From iPhone with iTunes

iTunes is not merely a media player, it provides iOS users with system management of music, movies, apps and more on their iPhone,iPad at the same time. To remove apps background iPhone, iPad, follow the steps below:

Note: The ability to find apps in iTunes seems to be missing in latest iOS 14 and iTunes version. If you can’t find apps in iTunes, refer to Tenorshare iCareFone to remove hidden apps on iPhone.

• Open iTunes on your PC/Mac and connect your device with it.
• Click the iPhone/iPad icon from the upper menu bar and choose Apps under Settings section on the left side.

If you can’t find downloaded app on iPhone, iPad intuitively, you can sort apps by name, kind, and category to locate it. Next to the app icon is the Remove button. Hit it to delete apps from iPhone in iTunes.

Tip: You should have already known that iTunes will keep the records of all purchased apps in the App Store and currently there is no way to remove the history. If you are sharing a computer with families and worried about personal info leakage, better to erase hidden apps from your device on Apps > Purchased > Not in My Library too.

Summary

That all we’d like to share about how to delete an app on iOS 14/13/12 and earlier devices even when you can’t find app on iPhone Home screen. If you can’t deleted apps on on iPhone, simply download Tenorshare iCareFone and give it a shoot.

Updated on 2021-05-11 / Update for iPhone Tips

Lori Kaufman is a technology expert with 25 years of experience. She’s been a senior technical writer, worked as a programmer, and has even run her own multi-location business. Read more.

There’s an app you want to uninstall, but you can’t find it on your Home screen. If the icon appears to have disappeared, how are you supposed to uninstall the app? Don’t panic. There is another way.

You may think that the only way to uninstall an iOS app is to tap and hold on the icon until it begins to wiggle so you can press the “X”. That’s what I thought.

But after updating to the iOS 10 Beta, I was having problems with an app that would not update. The App Store kept displaying a badge on its icon indicating there was an app to be updated, but that app would never update. All other apps were updating just fine. I figured I would uninstall the problem app and then reinstall it, hoping that would fix the problem. I searched through my Home screen including every folder and through the additional screens and folders as well. I could not find the app anywhere. So, how do I uninstall an app I can’t find?

I called Apple Support about my problem because the badge wouldn’t go away and it was driving me mad. First, they had me try various things to get the app to update. If you’re having a similar problem, you can try these solutions:

• Force quit the App Store app by double-pressing the Home button and then swiping up on the App Store app. Then, I reopened the App Store app, but the app still wouldn’t update.
• Use Spotlight Search to try to find the app on your main Home screen and the other Home screen pages. In my case, Spotlight Search didn’t find the app.
• Use Power+Home to perform a hard reset of your phone. This is not a factory reset, it’s a reboot, like restarting your computer. This didn’t work for me either.
• Uninstall the app through iTunes. To do this, plug in your iOS device and click the device icon below the menu bar. Then, click “Apps” under Settings and search for the app you want to uninstall in the Apps list on the right. Click “Remove” to delete the app. Click “OK” on the confirmation dialog box, and then click “Apply” at the bottom of the window to apply the change to your device. Your device will sync with iTunes and the app will be deleted from the device.

Unfortunately, iTunes won’t currently recognize my iPhone since I updated to iOS 10 Beta, so that option was out too.

I thought I would have to resort to doing a factory reset of my phone, and I really didn’t want to do that. However, the Apple Support specialist then led me through a simple procedure that took me into the Settings to delete the app.

This procedure is useful even if you’re not having trouble with an app. If you have tons of apps installed, like I do, it may be difficult sometimes to remember where you put an app on the home screen. But from the Settings, you can get a list of all your apps so you can uninstall them one-by-one.

To begin, tap “Settings” on the Home screen.

On the Settings screen, tab “General”.

Tap “Storage & iCloud Usage” on the General screen.

On the Storage & iCloud Usage screen, tap “Manage Storage” in the Storage section.

All the apps installed on your device are listed in order of the app size. If you have a long list of apps, it might take a while to find the one you’re looking for. Scroll through the list to find the app and tap on it when you find it.

On the Info screen for the app, tap “Delete App”.

Tap “Delete App” on the popup dialog box.

This is also useful if you’re running out of space on your device. You can open this list and see which apps are taking up the most space on your device and uninstall them right from the list.

With iOS 10, you can remove some built-in Apple apps from the Home screen on your iPhone, iPad, iPod touch or Apple Watch.

When you remove a built-in app from your Home screen, you also remove any related user data and configuration files. This can affect things like related system functions or information on your Apple Watch.

The apps built into iOS are designed to be very space efficient, so all of them together use less than 200MB. Removing built-in iOS apps doesn’t free up storage space on your device.

Built-in apps you can remove from your Home screen

If you have iOS 10, you can remove 1 these apps from your Home screen:

• Calculator
• Calendar
• Compass
• Contacts 2
• FaceTime 3
• Find My Friends
• Home
• iBooks 4

• iCloud Drive
• iTunes Store
• Mail
• Maps 4
• Music 4
• News (where available)
• Notes
• Podcasts 4

• Reminders
• Stocks
• Tips
• Videos or TV
• Voice Memos
• Watch app 5
• Weather

1. With iOS 12, you can delete built-in apps from the Home screen on your device. See this article for more information on built-in apps in iOS 12.
2. If you remove the Contacts app, all of your contact information will remain in the Phone app.
3. If you remove the FaceTime app, you can still make and receive FaceTime calls in Contacts and the Phone app.
4. If you remove the iBooks, Maps, Music or Podcast apps, they won’t be available to use with CarPlay.
5. If you try to remove the Watch app from an iPhone that’s paired with an Apple Watch, an alert asks you to unpair your Apple Watch before you can remove the app.

Remove a built-in app from your Home screen

1. On your iOS device, touch and hold the app lightly until it jiggles. If the app doesn’t jiggle, make sure that you’re not pressing too hard.
2. Tap on the app, then tap Remove.
3. Press the Home button to finish.

If you have an Apple Watch, removing an app from your iPhone also removes that app from your Apple Watch.

Restore a built-in app that you removed

1. On your iOS device, go to the App Store.
2. Search for the app. Make sure that you use the exact name of the app. Find the correct name of built-in apps.
3. Tap to restore the app.
4. Wait for the app to restore, then open it from your Home screen.

If you have an Apple Watch, restoring an app to your iPhone also restores that app to your Apple Watch.

What happens when you remove built-in apps from your Home screen

Removing built-in apps from your Home screen can affect other system functionalities. Here are some examples:

• If you have an Apple Watch paired with your iPhone, removing an app from your iPhone Home screen also removes that app from your Apple Watch Home screen.
• If you remove the Podcasts app from your Home screen, Podcasts won’t be available with CarPlay.
• If you remove the Music app, you may be unable to play some audio content using Apple apps or third-party apps on some car stereos or stereo receivers.
• If you remove the Stocks or Weather app from your Home screen, stocks and weather won’t be available elsewhere. For example, you won’t see stocks and weather information in Notification Center on your iPhone or as Complications or Glances on your Apple Watch.
• If you remove the Calculator app, the calculator won’t appear in Control Center.

To restore an affected functionality, you can add built-in apps back to your Home screen.

You know that you have Gmail on your iPhone. You get Gmail notifications, you see it in the app switcher, it’s in the Settings app, and you even see the “Open” button instead of “Get” or the download icon in the App Store. But you simply cannot find the app on your home screen. If this situation sounds like something you’re dealing with, there’s an easy answer.

Apps can go missing on your iPhone for many reasons, but one of the most common causes only happens on iPhones running iOS 14 and later. That’s due to the new App Library, which houses every one of the apps on your iPhone. It acts as an app directory, grouping apps into sorted folders, and it provides a way to view all apps in alphabetical order.

What Does the App Library Have to Do with Missing Apps?

While it’s possible for all of your apps to live on both the home screen and in the App Library, it’s also possible for there to be a discrepancy between the two. That’s because iOS lets you remove apps from the home screen while keeping them tucked away in the App Library. In fact, you can have iOS automatically add apps to the App Library only, leaving your home screen clean and orderly.

That’s all fine and well if you know about the App Library, but it creates a confusing system of missing apps for those of us who are unaware. By default, iOS will send new apps to both the home screen and App Library, but it’s possible that it’s not doing that. That’s because you may have inadvertently set new apps to go to the App Library only or removed an app manually.

Your Missing App May Be on a Hidden Home Screen Page

If you’ve ever hidden a home screen page (also a new feature in iOS 14), the app you’re looking for might be on one of those hidden pages. To see, open the home screen editor, tap the page dots, check any unchecked pages, and hit “Done.” For more information, check out our full guide on hiding home screen pages in iOS 14.

Hiding a Home Screen Page Will Stop Showing New Apps

Hiding a home screen page has consequences you may not have noticed. When you first hide a page or number of pages, it will automatically set new app downloads to appear only in the App Library, not the home screen. So if you don’t remember setting new app downloads to work that way, you may have accidentally triggered it after hiding a home screen page.

You May Have Removed the App Manually

The new App Library also changes the way you remove apps from your iPhone. When you long-press an app on the home screen and tap “Remove App,” or when you tap the minus (–) icon on an app in the home screen editor, options come up to “Delete App” or “Remove from Home Screen.”

If you did it quickly, you might have hit the remove option instead of delete, thinking it would delete it. That would make it look like the app was still on your iPhone — just not on the home screen — even though you “deleted” it. If you want it back, you don’t have to install it again because you just hid it from your home screen. In that case, it’s easy to get back.

Find & Add the App Back to the Home Screen

If you think the app is on a hidden home screen page, unhide the page. If you don’t want to unhide the page or don’t have any hidden pages, you can quickly find the missing app in the App Library and add it back to the home screen. To get to the App Library, swipe left on the home screen past the last home screen page. Then, browse the folders or search the list of apps.

Once you find the app in question, there are a few things you can do. First, you can press on the app icon and drag-and-drop it to a location on your home screen. Second, you can long-press the app icon and tap “Add to Home Screen,” and the app will appear automatically on the first open spot it’s allowed to go on.

If you don’t see the “Add to Home Screen” option and the app isn’t on your home screen, it’s likely concealed in a hidden home screen page. If you don’t want to dig through your hidden pages, you can still use the drag-and-drop method to move it from the hidden page to an active one.

Prevent New Apps from Skipping Your Home Screen

If you don’t want new apps to skip the home screen, go to Settings –> Home Screen and change the Newly Downloaded Apps preference from “App Library Only” to “Add to Home Screen.” Changing this setting will not affect your hidden home screen pages if you have any.

If this didn’t work in locating your missing app, there might be bigger issues to deal with. The app may be restricted, no longer available, or you might have the wrong app installed. In some cases, you may have inadvertently changed a preference in Settings, such as with Magnifier, which disappears from the home screen and App Library in iOS 14 and later whenever it’s disabled in the Accessibility settings. Visit our general missing apps guide to walk through some of these possibilities.

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There’s an app you want to uninstall, but you can’t find it on your Home screen. If the icon appears to have disappeared, how are you supposed to uninstall the app? Don’t panic. There is another way.

You may think that the only way to uninstall an iOS app is to tap and hold on the icon until it begins to wiggle so you can press the “X”. That’s what I thought.

But after updating to the iOS 10 Beta, I was having problems with an app that would not update. The App Store kept displaying a badge on its icon indicating there was an app to be updated, but that app would never update. All other apps were updating just fine. I figured I would uninstall the problem app and then reinstall it, hoping that would fix the problem. I searched through my Home screen including every folder and through the additional screens and folders as well. I could not find the app anywhere. So, how do I uninstall an app I can’t find?

I called Apple Support about my problem because the badge wouldn’t go away and it was driving me mad. First, they had me try various things to get the app to update. If you’re having a similar problem, you can try these solutions:

• Force quit the App Store app by double-pressing the Home button and then swiping up on the App Store app. Then, I reopened the App Store app, but the app still wouldn’t update.
• Use Spotlight Search to try to find the app on your main Home screen and the other Home screen pages. In my case, Spotlight Search didn’t find the app.
• Use Power+Home to perform a hard reset of your phone. This is not a factory reset, it’s a reboot, like restarting your computer. This didn’t work for me either.
• Uninstall the app through iTunes. To do this, plug in your iOS device and click the device icon below the menu bar. Then, click “Apps” under Settings and search for the app you want to uninstall in the Apps list on the right. Click “Remove” to delete the app. Click “OK” on the confirmation dialog box, and then click “Apply” at the bottom of the window to apply the change to your device. Your device will sync with iTunes and the app will be deleted from the device.

Unfortunately, iTunes won’t currently recognize my iPhone since I updated to iOS 10 Beta, so that option was out too.

I thought I would have to resort to doing a factory reset of my phone, and I really didn’t want to do that. However, the Apple Support specialist then led me through a simple procedure that took me into the Settings to delete the app.

This procedure is useful even if you’re not having trouble with an app. If you have tons of apps installed, like I do, it may be difficult sometimes to remember where you put an app on the home screen. But from the Settings, you can get a list of all your apps so you can uninstall them one-by-one.

To begin, tap “Settings” on the Home screen.

On the Settings screen, tab “General”.

Tap “Storage & iCloud Usage” on the General screen.

On the Storage & iCloud Usage screen, tap “Manage Storage” in the Storage section.

All the apps installed on your device are listed in order of the app size. If you have a long list of apps, it might take a while to find the one you’re looking for. Scroll through the list to find the app and tap on it when you find it.

On the Info screen for the app, tap “Delete App”.

Tap “Delete App” on the popup dialog box.

This is also useful if you’re running out of space on your device. You can open this list and see which apps are taking up the most space on your device and uninstall them right from the list.

With iOS 12, iOS 13, and iPadOS, you can delete some built-in Apple apps from your iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, or Apple Watch.

When you delete a built-in app from your device, you also delete any related user data and configuration files. This can affect things like related system functions or information on your Apple Watch.

Built-in apps you can delete from your device

If you have iOS 12, iOS 13, or iPadOS 13, you can delete 1 these apps from your device:

• Activity
• Apple Books 4
• Calculator
• Calendar
• Compass
• Contacts 2
• FaceTime 3
• Files
• Find My Friends (iOS 12 only)

• Home
• iTunes Store
• Mail
• Maps 4
• Measure
• Music 4
• News (where available)
• Notes
• Podcasts 4

• Reminders
• Stocks
• Tips
• TV (where available)
• Videos
• Voice Memos
• Watch app 5
• Weather

1. With iOS 10, you can remove built-in apps from the Home screen on your device, but you can’t delete them. See this article for more information on built-in apps in iOS 10.
2. If you delete the Contacts app, all of your contact information will remain in the Phone app.
3. If you delete the FaceTime app, you can still make and receive FaceTime calls in Contacts and the Phone app.
4. If you delete the Apple Books, Maps, Music, or Podcast apps, they won’t be available to use with CarPlay. If you delete the Music app, you’ll be unable to play audio content in its library using Apple apps or third-party apps on some car stereos or stereo receivers.
5. If you try to delete the Watch app from an iPhone that’s paired with an Apple Watch, an alert asks you to unpair your Apple Watch before you can delete the app.

Delete a built-in app from your device

1. On your iOS or iPadOS device, touch and hold the app.
2. Tap Rearrange Apps.
3. Tap in the upper-left corner to delete the app.
4. Tap Delete. Then on an iPhone X or later, tap Done. Or on an iPhone 8 or earlier, press the Home button.

If you have an Apple Watch, deleting an app from your iPhone also deletes that app from your Apple Watch.

Restore a built-in app that you deleted

1. On your iOS or iPadOS device, go to the App Store.
2. Search for the app. Make sure that you use the exact name of the app. Find the correct name of built-in apps.
3. Tap to restore the app.
4. Wait for the app to restore, then open it from your Home screen.

If you have an Apple Watch, restoring an app to your iPhone also restores that app to your Apple Watch.

What happens when you delete built-in apps from your device

Deleting built-in apps from your device can affect other system functionalities. Here are some examples:

• If you have an Apple Watch paired with your iPhone, deleting an app from your iPhone also deletes that app from your Apple Watch Home screen.
• If you delete the Podcasts app from your device, Podcasts won’t be available with CarPlay.
• If you delete the Stocks or Weather app from your device, stocks and weather won’t be available elsewhere. For example, you won’t see stocks and weather information in Notification Center on your iPhone or as Complications or Glances on your Apple Watch.
• If you delete the Calculator app, the calculator won’t appear in Control Center.

To restore an affected functionality, you can add built-in apps back to your device.

Jason Fitzpatrick is the Editor in Chief of LifeSavvy, How-To Geek’s sister site focused life hacks, tips, and tricks. He has over a decade of experience in publishing and has authored thousands of articles at Review Geek, How-To Geek, and Lifehacker. Jason served as Lifehacker’s Weekend Editor before he joined How-To Geek. Read more.

You’re sure you have the app on your iPhone, but its nowhere to be found. Did it end up buried in one of your home screen pages? Was it lost in a folder? Did you accidentally delete it? No matter how it went missing, you can find it with this simple trick.

To locate the missing app, swipe right on your iPhone or iPad from the home screen to reveal the Spotlight search box. Enter the partial name of the app you’re looking for.

Tap on the resulting icon to launch the app. The search results will even show a notation next to it if it’s inside a folder.

In this case, Snapseed is in a folder called “Photo & Video” somewhere on our home screen.

In addition to locating apps already installed on your device, the search function also taps into the App Store search. In the screenshot above you can see that searching for “snap” pulled up both the installed app, Snapseed, and the popular (but not installed) app Snapchat. If we accidentally deleted Snapchat and were in search of it, this same technique would show us that it was not on the phone and simply tapping the “VIEW” button would take us to the App Store where we could download it again.

If this is your first time using the Spotlight search on your iOS device we’d encourage you to check out our guide which covers everything from toggling Siri Suggestions to controlling which apps Spotlight searches within.