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How to Completely Delete Apps on iPhone

By Jennifer | Last Updated

You probably have some apps on your iPhone that you don't use often or never use, which causes much cache on your iPhone. You may want to remove them from your iPhone. Cleaning or deleting unused apps makes your phone with more memory, while the apps you commonly use will function well. Here, three methods is shown about how to delete unused apps on iPhone.

  1. Way 1: Delete Apps from Home Screen on iPhone
  2. Way 2: Delete Apps from Settings on iPhone
  3. Way 3: Delete Unused Apps via iSunshare iDevice Genius on iPhone

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Way 1: Delete Apps from Home Screen on iPhone

It is simple to remove apps from the home screen on iPhone. Please tap and hold the app you want to delete, and then you will see a shortcut menu appear on the home screen. After that, click “Remove App”. However, “Remove App” just remove the app from the home screen on iPhone, not all data.

remove app from home screen on iphone

You can also manage your application by editing the screen. When you select “Edit Home Screen”, you will see a small minus sign appears in the top left of all app icon. You can also click a blank area of the screen until all icons start shaking and a minus sign in the upper left. Tap the minus sign for the app you want to remove and then delete the app.

delete apps from home screen on iphone

Way 2: Delete Apps from Settings on iPhone

Please open Settings on your iPhone, scroll down to the General, select it and move to the iPhone Storage tab to see all information related to apps.

Select the application you want to clear the app data of, click on it and you will see two information in there: Application Size; Document & Data. There are two buttons at the bottom of that page: Offload App and Delete App. After you press "Offload App", the application data cannot be deleted, but the storage space occupied by the application is released. If you want to know how to clear more cache on iPhone, you can try to delete the app and its data, please choose the "Delete App" button, which deletes your data thoroughly and speed up your iPhone. Remember that this action will not be undone.

delete apps from settings on iphone

Way 3: Delete Unused Apps via iSunshare iDevice Genius on iPhone

Unlike the way of deleting apps from settings on iPhone, iSunshare iDevice Genius can quickly scan and list the apps on your iPhone, as well as their data. Using it, you can immediately uninstall those unused apps without affecting the running of other program on your iPhone, which saves you a lot of time and makes it easier to clear the cache on the iPhone. Now, let's focus on the following steps.

Step 1: Download the software on your computer and run it. Don't forget to connect your device to your computer with a USB cable.

keep your device connected to the computer

Step 2: Tap “Uninstall” on the left menu and then click the “Scan” option on the right menu, the program starts scanning the apps in your iPhone.

select the scan options to scan apps in your iphone

Step 3: After scanning, you ‘ll see unused apps listed on this page, including the version, application size, and document size. Hit the “Uninstall” button to delete them for freeing up storage space on iPhone.

uninstall unused apps

Step 4: Next, there is a tip that uninstalls apps successfully, please click “OK”. Finally, the app will be deleted from your iPhone.

uninstall succeeded

When you send out the question that how do I uninstall an app from my iPhone, why don't you try it follow the above methods. Hope your problem is solved!

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