Some people love the iPhone’s home screen, while others dislike it. Unlike Android, which uses an app drawer to store applications, the iPhone displays app icons directly on the home screen. This setup makes apps easily accessible, but it can create a cluttered appearance, particularly for users who have many apps. The introduction of the App Library has helped by providing a central location to organize apps. However, for many, the home screen remains the primary space for storing applications.
Of course, this becomes a problem if you want to hide an app. Whether it's an app you don't need very often, a sensitive banking app, or anything else you want to keep hidden, having it proclaiming its presence on your home screen is a problem. Thankfully, Apple has included a number of quick and easy ways to hide apps away without removing them from your phone.
Since there is are some slight differences between iOS 18 (now available for everyone) and previous versions of iOS, we show you both ways below.
In iOS 18, Apple has introduced the option to conceal and secure apps, providing an additional layer of protection for your device. This is the way to do it on the all-new iPhone 16e and any phone with iOS 18 on it.
Step 1: First, press and hold the icon you want to hide or lock on your iPhone home screen.
Step 2: On the menu that appears, tap Require Face ID, then confirm your choice.
Step 3: If the app is able to be hidden, you will also see an option to Hide and require Face ID. Tap to confirm, and the app will disappear from your home screen.
Step 4: To unhide a hidden app, go into your iPhone’s App library. Choose the Hidden folder; it should be the final one.
Step 5: Long-press on the app you no longer want hidden, and choose Don’t require Face ID. The app should appear once again on your home screen.
Hiding an app on your iPhone's home screen is simple, and very fast. These steps are for iPhones using iOS 17 or older. The steps are different in iOS 18, as you'll see below.
Step 1: Find the app you want to hide on your home page.
Step 2: Press and hold on the app in question.
Step 3: A box will pop up. Select Remove app.
Step 4: It'll ask you whether you want to uninstall the app, or just remove it from the home screen. Choose Remove from home screen to hide the app without uninstalling it.
If you're hiding an app, rather than uninstalling it, then it's a fairly good guess you want to access that app again. While it's no longer easily accessible on your home screen, it's not difficult to find that hidden app again. There are two ways of doing this, and both are very simple.
The directions here apply for iOS 18 and older.
Step 1: Spotlight search is a strong iOS feature, and it's great for finding any app, not just hidden ones.
Step 2: To use it, swipe down from your home screen. Don't swipe from the top of the screen, or you'll open your notifications. Instead, swipe from the middle.
Step 3: When Spotlight search appears, type in the name of the app you want.
The next method for searching involves the App Library.
Step 1: Swipe to the left until you reach the end of your home screen, and your App library opens.
Step 2: Choose the search bar at the top of the screen, then either scroll down the alphabetical list, or search for your chosen app.
With that all said and done, you're now an iPhone app hiding pro! Whether you use one of these methods or all of them, they're at your disposal for hiding iPhone apps however you see fit.
Merely days after the iPhone Duo hit the shelves, images of broken screens on the phone started popping up across social media. Until now, it’s been unclear what’s causing the line of defective pixels that appears vertically along the crease, as well as horizontally, on the phone’s inner display.
Apple has finally acknowledged the issue, which has shown up on iPhone Duo units owned by customers as well as demo units in stores. In a statement shared with Bloomberg, Apple says that not all iPhone Duo units are affected and that those that are tend to show the display fault early on. The company added that users who experience problems with their iPhone Duo display should contact AppleCare for a replacement.
Not long ago, Apple treated independent repair like an act of outright hostility. The Cupertino giant locked down parts with serial-number pairing, while repair tools remained firmly out of reach of anyone outside its authorized repair network. More importantly, the company waged a legal and lobbying battle against right-to-repair legislation.
I've covered enough of these fights over the years to know what a shift looks like. That's why what happened in October 2026 genuinely caught me off guard. The day the iPhone Duo went on sale, what may be the most mechanically complex iPhone to date, Apple pulled off a surprising about-face. It published teardown-style repair manuals for a handful of major components.
Apple's first foldable phone is now on shelves, in short supply, but with an unreal amount of buzz around it. After all, it's the first foldable iPhone, and there's plenty that this phone gets right. But there's also a lot that is either broken or underwhelming. What's peculiar is the dialogue around this phone, and how it has completely overshadowed every other attempt at making a phone with a similar form factor.
I've spent some time with the iPhone Duo, and I've used the Galaxy Z Fold 8 for almost three months now. In my opinion, Samsung deserves more credit. When the Galaxy Z Fold 8 arrived earlier this year, it was celebrated in some circles and ridiculed in others for supposedly copying what Apple would eventually deliver with the iPhone Duo. The dialogue was pretty odd, for multiple reasons. Samsung has been making foldable phones for years, so claiming that it copied a product Apple hadn't even launched was simply absurd.