Goodbye Stocks! (Picture: Getty Images)

Finally – we will soon be able to rid ourselves of the iPhone’s awful stock apps.

We all have a ‘junk’ folder on our phones where we stick all of the rubbish pre-installed apps we never use but can’t delete (Tips and Stocks, we’re looking at you here).

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But new code discovered in iTunes metadata suggests that Apple are introducing a way to remove them, according to tech site AppAdvice.

And from the actual line of code, which reads ‘isFirstPartyHideableApp’, it sounds like we will definitely be getting hideable first party apps.


Here it is (Picture: AppAdvice)

The only downside is that it’s not clear if you’ll actually be able to delete them to free up storage space, of if you’ll just be able to hide them from your home screen.



In September last year, Apple CEO Tim Cook told Buzzfeed that they were looking at a way to let people hide or get rid of unwanted default apps – but that it was a bit more complicated than people think.

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‘There are some apps that are linked to something else on the iPhone,’ he said. ‘If they were to be removed they might they might cause issues elsewhere on the phone. There are other apps that aren’t like that.

‘So over time, I think with the ones that aren’t like that, we’ll figure out a way [for you to remove them].’

Could we get this feature in time for the iPhone 7? Fingers crossed.