Whether deliberately or otherwise, it is possible to hide apps on an iPhone. If it’s been a while since you tucked an app away or you didn’t mean to hide it in the first place, it’s not always easy to ...

Lock iPhone apps with Face ID to prevent others from accessing. You can also hide apps in a secret folder to keep them out of sight. Or you can remove apps from your home screen without hiding them. I ...

Phone with iOS 16 finally gets a Secure Folder just like the Samsung Galaxy smartphones, but in a weird way. iOS 16 is a mega ...

Learn how to access iPhone files from Windows without relying on iTunes or the Apple Devices app, using File Explorer or ...

iPhone storage fills up fast. Photos, apps, videos, and downloads all compete for space, but one storage hog flies under the radar: text message attachments. Every photo, video, GIF, and file sent ...

There’s an easy way to keep your apps hidden. Image: D. Griffin Jones/Cult of Mac You can hide apps on your iPhone so they’re completely invisible, and you can lock all kinds of apps so they require ...

Prevent strangers from seeing what apps you've got installed. Your smartphone reveals an awful lot about you, not the least of which includes the apps you’ve got ...

Apple has improved iPhone security and privacy with iOS 18. One of the valuable new features is the ability to require Face ID for individual apps as well as putting them in a hidden folder. Read ...

A TidBITS reader named Stan wrote in recently, thinking he had identified an iOS 26 bug that could make apps completely inaccessible except through search. An Apple Store employee had confirmed what ...

When Apple unveiled iOS 18 at WWDC 2024, we learned that one of the new features the next operating system will bring to your iPhone is the ability to hide your apps. But you don’t have to wait until ...

We see a new release of iOS every year, and with it comes a bunch of updates that tackle privacy and security issues. The launch of iOS 18 brought about a hoard of other features to the iPhone. The ...

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