Hiding apps on your iPhone serves a lot of purposes. Firstly, it is a great way of keeping your personal and financial apps away from prying eyes. It also comes in quite handy for people who want to break their social media addiction but also don’t want to uninstall all the apps on their phones. Hiding an app can deter you from constantly opening it on your phone. While you may know how to hide an app, it is also important that you know how to search for it and unhide it. In this article, we bring you the top 5 ways to find hidden apps on your iPhone.
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Perform a search using Spotlight
The Spotlight tab on iOS devices can access hidden apps as well and bring them up in search results whenever they are requested. To perform an app search on your iPhone using Spotlight, simply swipe down from the middle of the home screen. Enter the name of the app in the search bar. Spotlight will display the app even if it is hidden from the home screen.
Reset Home Screen Layout
Restoring your iPhone’s home screen to its original layout unhides all the apps that you may have stashed away. Here’s how you can go about it.
Step 1: Go to Settings and select General.
Step 2: Select ‘Transfer or Reset iPhone’.
Step 3: Tap on ‘Home Screen Layout’.
Unhide a home screen
iOS also gives you the option to hide an entire home screen on your iPhone. If you notice multiple apps missing from your iPhone, you may have accidentally hidden an entire home screen. Here’s how you can unhide it.
Step 1: Long press any empty spot on the home screen until the icons begin jiggling.
Step 2: Tap the ellipses at the bottom of the screen.
Step 3: Go through the home screens and look for a checkmark at the bottom of the screen card.
Step 4: If a home screen does not have a checkmark on its card, it means that it is hidden. Tap the circle to unhide it.
Step 5: Select ‘Done’.
Unhide apps using the App Library
Step 1: Go to the home screen and scroll all the way to the right.
Step 2: Search for the app in the search bar. If you have prevented the app from showing up in search results, go ahead and change that setting.
Step 3: Once the app shows up in search results, long press it and drag it to the left. The app will be moved to the home screen.
Step 4: Adjust the app’s position on the home screen by pressing and dragging it. Tap ‘Done’ once you’re done.
Use Siri
If you can’t find a hidden app on your iPhone, you can simply ask Siri to launch it for you. All you need to say is ‘Hey Siri, launch [app name]’ and the voice assistant will open the app on your iPhone. It’s a simple trick but it works.
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
How do I unhide an app on my iPhone?
To unhide an app on an iPhone simply search for it in Spotlight or App Library, press and hold its icon, and drag it back to the home screen.
How do I unhide a home screen on my iPhone?
To unhide an entire home screen on your iPhone, long press an empty spot on the home screen and press an empty circle on the thumbnail for the hidden screen.
How do I reset the home screen layout on an iPhone?
To reset the home screen layout on an iPhone go to Settings>General>Reset and select Home Screen Layout.
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Conclusion
This is how you can unhide and find hidden apps on your iPhone. If you don’t want a hidden app to show up as a search result, go to Settings>Siri & Search>App>On Home Screen and switch off the toggle bar for ‘Show app in search results’. This will prevent Spotlight, Siri, and App Library from searching the app.
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