Learn how to hide and lock apps on your iPhone to keep sensitive information, games, or purchases private from prying eyes.

I already showed you how to lock iPhone apps with Face ID in iOS 18, a feature that goes hand in hand with a new iOS ability: You can hide iPhone apps from the Home Screen and App Library.

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You can hide them all or each one individually for a clean desktop without clutter. Or you can show as many as you want for quick access to your apps. You can even bring back the legacy system ...

The operating system gives its users a lot of control over their devices, such as ways to hide apps; unfortunately, this can lead to some confusion about the hidden apps and may raise security ...

Your iPhone has multiple touch and gesture capabilities that can enhance how you interact with apps. Some, like pinch and zoom, are well known enough to be considered second nature, but others are ...

Unfortunately, one of the things that Apple does not allow you to do is to hide an app, or otherwise make it private, so only you can find it. That said, there are some simple workarounds you can ...

Table of Contents How to hide and lock apps in iOS 18 How to hide apps in iOS 17 or older How to find a hidden app How to find a hidden app using the App Library Of course, this becomes a problem ...