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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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When will they advertise 16GB as being 16GB instead of the OS using up a heap of space?
Uncle
They won’t because it is 16gb. All IT is measured this why whether Apple or not. A 500GB Windows has 500GB before the O/S is installed.
delete the operating system if you want more space .
Just did, it’s great now
Subtract 5gb for the OS, it’s quite simple and standard for any sort of device with an OS.
I think everyone knows what I mean but a bit more info wouldnt go astray
It doesn’t even have 500gb to begin with if you factor in manufacturers measure 1000kb/mb/gb instead of 1024 and then you have file system overheads.
iMaps is rubbishy compared to Google maps. I’ve clicked on it by mistake thinking it was google maps. Looking forward to deleting it.
It would serve Apple best if they addressed the multiple flaws in their overpriced devices ! Apple has become like the ” Emperor’s suit of clothes” , people are afraid to criticise them for whatever reason , mostly because they think it is ” uncool” whatever that is supposed to mean ! It takes longer to charge an iPad than any other device, unless of course you buy the “”special chargerplug” , which is only available from them and the sales people in the big tech stores say they never heard of … Lol ! And don’t start me off about using popular Apps on an Apple without conceding to the dreadful Safari search engine .. A piece of crap kept alive only because Apple make it the default browser for so many applications. And the price if their “cool” devices that do stuff any device can handle… End of rant !
There’s a good few adjustments and tweaks to the OS in iOS10 but nothing (yet) as big as I had hoped for. They finally dropped support for Game Center too, the app is just gone and developers that use it need to build access into their games.
Hoping to see a Dark Mode added in later betas but for now, we can look forward to a lot more apps being able to use Siri and iMessage.
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