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ONE OF THE biggest complaints about the iPhone and iOS is how it manages to include numerous apps that cannot be removed.
Apps like Stocks, Weather, iBooks, Tips and Watch app are all included and there’s no way to remove them. The only (indirect) way you could deal with them was to put them all into a folder so they don’t take up space on your home screen.
Until now, that is. As part of the next version, iOS 10 will let you remove the vast majority of standard Apple apps from your phone.
The company’s iOS 10 beta page says you can remove these apps from the Home screen:
Calculator, Calendar, Compass, Contacts, FaceTime, Find My Friends, Home, iBooks, iCloud Drive, iTunes Store, Mail, Maps, Music, News, Notes, Podcasts, Reminders, Stocks, Tips, Videos, Voice Memos, Watch app, and Weather.
However, Apple warns that removing these built-in apps from your home screen can “affect other system functionalities”.
If an app uses Apple Maps or takes information from the Weather app, it won’t work until you install it again although this could change once iOS 10 is released and developers get used to the idea.
The other thing is there are certain apps you cannot remove like Safari, Health, Photos, Clock, Settings and Camera. These apps are essential to core iPhone – for example, the camera app is integrated with the lock screen and Health includes Medical ID and ICE – so removing them would cause a number of headaches.
The developer preview of iOS 10 is available to download now with a public beta arriving next month. The official release will happen in September, usually after Apple’s major iPhone event.
Apple announced a number of new features for iOS 10 last night at its developer conference WWDC including updates to its messaging service, a redesigned lock and notifications screen, improvements to Photos and opening up Siri to third-party developers.
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A sad fact is they will still vote Conservative, like the past few elections, not because the Tory party is of any use, it’s just no creditable opposition exists, Labour cant find its feet and Starmer is weak and goes with what’s popular rather than what’s needed, voters fear this, Labour will do well but not brilliant, sad but true.
@Valentine Kane: Compared to Johnson, Starmer looks like Hercules! Boris Johnson has never told the truth. It just goes to show you how much of a hold the British media have on the people that Boris Johnson got into power in the first place. He had more skeletons in his closet than Jeffery Dahmer.
@Mike Ruddy: correct – he’s realised what Corbyn was up against in the British media. And Starmer is much more palatable to the media there than Corbyn ever was.
“integrity issue”!!! Are they for real!?
They voted him in as leader. What part of his long and very public history didn’t clearly show him as a inveterate liar and con artist. Was being fired from 2 separate jobs not enough? How about trying to get a journalist assaulted? None of that was a clue?
Quite frankly, it’s galling that these people blame him. He’s clearly shown his true colours for decades. Have they never read the Frog and the scorpion? It’s in his nature!
No not the, Greens gaining seats. dig deeper into your pockets for that Lot.
Chucking Borris out will regain 50% of their vote. He’s toxic now.
@Kevin Conway: That was the plan all along, the Conservatives knew they were going to have a bad election so left Boris in place even as more and more scandels broke. That way they can now get rid of him, spinning it as if they are cleaning up the party, and install a new leader with a clean slate. No point in getting a new leader before the election and having a disaster, it would make the new leader seem weak.
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