Do you want to hide apps on an iPad? Follow the guide to know how you can hide these apps on your device. Here is how you can do it! Read on.
What happens when we hide apps on an iPad?
When you hide an app on your iPad, you aren’t pushing it out of your device. It does not mean deleting it or losing your data. It simply means that you are just shifting it out of sight. If you remove it from your home screen, it simply goes into the App Library at the very end of your pages, where it stays. If you choose to lock and hide it behind Face ID, it goes into a secure, invisible folder that won’t even show up anywhere until you really want it to. With this, the app stops cluttering up your main screen and only keeps the more important apps on the screen. The rest stay hidden until you want them back.
Steps to hide apps on an iPad
If you want to hide apps on an iPad, these are the steps you need to follow.
- Touch and hold the app icon right on your home screen until a small menu pops up. Tap on remove app, and then choose remove from home screen. That is it! This will safely hide the app away into your app library at the very end of your screens without even erasing any of your data.
- That was for a single app. But if you want to hide a bunch of apps at the same time, you can also move them all onto their own dedicated home screen page. To do this, touch and hold the background until everything shakes. Now tap on the small page dots near the bottom, and uncheck that specific page to make it invisible. It’s done!
- And if you just want to stop an app from popping up when someone swipes down to search, you can also head into your main settings app and select Siri and search. Now, scroll down to find the specific app, tap on it, and toggle off the switches for showing the app in search and on the home screen.
- But even if that is not enough and you want something more, long-press the app icon and select the option to require Face ID or Touch ID and then confirm you want to hide it. This completely vanishes the app from search results and notifications, keeping it inside a locked folder.
