Remove or delete apps from your iPhone or iPod Touch

Posted on December 22, 2008 at 5:42 am

I recently bought a iPod Touch for my sister-in-law and she was so excited that she ended up downloading all kinds of free apps and software just for the heck of it! Obviously, she didn’t actually need most of those apps and they were cluttering up her home screen.

So in this little tutorial, I will walk you through how you can delete apps from your iPhone or iPod Touch without having to load iTunes and connect the device to your computer.

First, locate the app that you want to delete. Let’s say I want to get rid of Tetris.

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Now, in order to delete the app, all you have to do is tap and hold down the icon until your screen starts to shake and then an “X” will appear at the top left corner of each one of the apps you installed.

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Pretty nifty eh? Now tap the “X” next to any app that you want to remove and you will get a dialog box asking if you are sure you want to remove it. All data associated with that app will also be deleted.

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And that’s it. Your app is now gone. Note that if you downloaded the apps from iTunes, you’ll want to remove it from there before connecting up your iPhone or iPod Touch as it will reinstall it when you sync up. Enjoy!

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22 Responses to “Remove or delete apps from your iPhone or iPod Touch”

  1. mica said on : December 31st, 2008 at 5:38 pm

    I needed these easy directions:)
    Thanks a million for helping me zap my apps!


  2. pam said on : February 1st, 2009 at 4:04 pm

    thanks so much it was soo easy after following your direction.


  3. Jessica L. said on : February 18th, 2009 at 6:28 pm

    thanks a million, I had some apps on the iPod Touch that i just wanted to get rid of that never showed up on my iTunes, so thanks a whole lot.


  4. Jiya said on : April 14th, 2009 at 5:53 pm

    Thanks so much, this was so much easier than other articles. I had 14 apps on my iPhone and there were 5 I
    didnt need!


  5. Peter Piper said on : July 25th, 2009 at 4:24 pm

    Great and esay way to delete apps from the iPhone! thanks a million


  6. Cindy said on : December 26th, 2009 at 5:26 pm

    YOU ARE GODS GIFT!! I HAVE TRIED EVERYTHING TO GET RID OF AN IPHONE APP. SO THANK YOU SO VERY MUCH!!

    MAY YOU CONTINUE TO HAVE A WONDERFUL AND SAFE HOLIDAY!!


  7. Me said on : December 27th, 2009 at 7:59 pm

    Thanks a lot! I could not figure out for the life of my how to delete apps on the iPhone!


  8. Andrea Yesupatham said on : January 5th, 2010 at 12:17 pm

    I haven’t tried removing an app from my iPhone yet, but thanks for posting this, i’m sure it will work!


  9. bob said on : January 25th, 2010 at 3:01 pm

    I want to get it off iTunes and i have an iPod touch, not an iPhone. Suggestions?


  10. HC said on : January 29th, 2010 at 12:12 pm

    Thanks. Easy to delete apps for the iPhone! Never occurred to me to hold down the button.


  11. rex said on : February 5th, 2010 at 5:28 pm

    i purchased a preowned jailbroken ipod touch 16gb 2nd generation that has all sorts of cool paid apps downloaded on it. How do I change the user name or email address and keep all the content on the ipod?


  12. Ricko said on : February 7th, 2010 at 10:40 am

    Thanks for your help! Such an easy solution, can’t believe I had not thought of it!


  13. Denise said on : February 16th, 2010 at 8:44 am

    Thanks a lot, very easy and quick! THANKS AGAIN!


  14. Dave said on : February 20th, 2010 at 4:06 pm

    Briliant! – Just what I wanted to know (not very intuitive).


  15. jennifer said on : March 5th, 2010 at 8:35 pm

    Awesome.. Thank you so much this has been making me crazy my kids downloaded all of these gams and it was taking up so much space. Thanks again..


  16. Wes said on : March 20th, 2010 at 12:02 pm

    Thanks for your help! I did not understand how to delete apps! Newbie!


  17. Fulvio said on : April 30th, 2010 at 12:37 pm

    Thank you so much! You saved me! I downloaded some bad app onto my iPhone and didn’t know how to get rid of it! Deleted it just in time!


  18. Darrell Kinnaman said on : June 2nd, 2010 at 6:32 am

    When I hold down on the app the one I want to delete doesn’t have an X on it. Any help would be great.
    thank you


  19. Sharl said on : June 16th, 2010 at 8:05 pm

    Thanks! Can always use tips on my iphone!


  20. Omar said on : June 23rd, 2010 at 2:06 pm

    How can I delete the apps which are not displayed on the screen?

    I have downloaded so many of them that some of them can’t be displayed on the main screen.


  21. u dnt know said on : July 30th, 2010 at 9:06 pm

    Thanks so much.


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