There was a bug in iOS 7 that allowed users to hide stocks from the Home screen without jailbreaking, which Apple had fixed in a subsequent update. But a YouTube user has again found a bug in iOS 7.1 that allows users to hide stock apps.
Here’s how to hide the stock apps in iOS 7.1:
- You should ensure that the dock has the maximum number of apps, i.e. 6 apps on the iPad, and 4 apps on the iPhone.
- Put the apps you want to hide in a folder.
- Move this folder on a Home screen that is full of apps.
- Now drag an app on top of another app to create a folder, then quickly drag the folder that you had created earlier, into this new folder.
- Remove the two apps you had added to create the new folder.
- Then drag the sub folder with the apps you wanted to add from the new folder. And just like that the folder will disappear from the Home screen, which also means that the apps in the folder will be hidden.
Check out the video by iDeviceHelpus to see how it works:
The downside of this method is that the apps will return on the Home screen when you reboot the device.
It amazes me how people find these bugs. So kudos to iDeviceHelpus for finding it. I’s quite likely that Apple will fix the bug in next iOS software update.
Let me know how it goes in the comments below.
Hat tip: 9to5Mac
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