iPhone glitch helps hide annoying permanent apps
Get in while you can – there is finally a way to get those annoying Apple apps off of the landing screen on your iPhone.
A glitch in the iPhone’s latest operating system, iOS 9.0.2, allows users to finally move those annoying and often useless email, stock market and newsstand features into nicely hidden sub-folders.
Glitches allowing users to create chains of sub-folders have been present in the iPhone operating systems for years and iOS 9.0.2 is no different it appears.
But to take advantage of the unintended feature, you will first need to create two new folders on the same home screen.
Once this is done, hold down on the folder you want to move until your phone enters edit mode (when the icons start to shake).
Continue holding down on the folder icon and start repeatedly tapping your second folder.
Eventually that folder should open and you will be able to hide whatever you want within it using the same technique.
There is a two-pronged benefit to using this work around.
As covered above, it helps you to hide the applications Apple insists must be front and centre no matter how seldom you open them.
The second advantage is that you can also create chains of sub folders, which is also something the kind developers at Apple have long insisted we don’t do.
There is a downside though.
The workaround technique is an unintentional glitch in Apple’s software, meaning future updates could put and end to it at any moment.
Your iPhone itself will also try to resist your attempts.
Whenever the phone is switched off completely (a rare occurrence for most users) the folders will revert to their more natural state and you will have to run through your slightly fiddly filing system again.
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