How do I Delete the new Apple Watch App on My iPhone?

March 15, 2015 10:18 AM

When my iPhone 6 updated its operating system yesterday, a new app for the Apple Watch appeared on the first screen. The link is to an ad saying the watch is coming soon. I tried the "delete app" procedure of pressing and holding the app button until it started quivering, but there's no "delete" option like there is on programs I've installed. I won't be buying an Apple Watch, and I want the space on the opening screen back. Is there any way?
posted by KRS to Computers & Internet (6 answers total)

Just like the Stocks, Newsstand, iBooks, etc apps, you can't delete the Apple Watch app. You can, however, move it into a folder and/or off the first home screen.
posted by misskaz at 10:25 AM on March 15, 2015 [4 favorites]

Yep. I've got a "Crapple" folder on my rightmost screen where I banish such mandatory bloatware.
posted by TheNewWazoo at 11:02 AM on March 15, 2015 [23 favorites]

Yes. Banish all junk apps to a folder on the rightmost screen. Even if your current right-most screen has plenty of space in it, put this junk folder into a new screen to the right of that one. That's as close to out-of-sight as you can achieve.
posted by Quisp Lover at 11:35 AM on March 15, 2015

yup, not uninstallable.

back in the day, my friends who worked at apple were super indignant when windows started installing a browser by default. now i can't even set my iphone to use chrome.
posted by bruceo at 3:01 PM on March 15, 2015 [11 favorites]

As soon as a jailbreak comes out for ios 8.2/8.1.3(or more likely at this point, 8.2.1 which will probably come out very soon) there's multiple ways to really do this, and not just throw it in a folder. Icon hiding tweaks, etc. You'll get pretty far just googling "cydia app hide", looking on /r/jailbreak on reddit(but not anywhere else on reddit it's the anus of the internet but that's the big jailbreak community), or even just searching cydia for hide app/hide icon and other combos of words like that.

You can also hide all those stupid other useless apps for real, at that point. It's awesome.

As for why you can actually straight up delete this kind of stuff on macs but not on iphones/ipads? I don't know. There's no excuse.
posted by emptythought at 11:41 PM on March 15, 2015

I've got a folder on the last page of my iOS screen that I have labeled "Useless" where I put all the things I don't use and can't delete: Stocks, Weather (I use Weather Underground instead), Passbook, Newsstand, iBooks, Maps (I use Google Maps instead).
posted by tckma at 1:31 PM on March 16, 2015