iOS 16: Delete more Apple apps

June 10, 2022

Have you ever wanted to delete the pesky Find My app?

Perhaps you're a diehard Tile fan (or executive), and the Find My app really bugs you.

Well, soon you can make Find My go away, courtesy of iOS 16.

The upcoming OS expands the number of preinstalled Apple apps you can delete, adding Find My, Clock and Health.

The move is undoubtedly related to antitrust concerns, with legislators around the world looking at the unfair advantages preinstalled apps afford tech giants like Apple.

So if you never use the Health app, once you upgrade to iOS 16, you can get to uninstalling. (iOS 16 is currently in developer beta, with a public beta coming next month.)

Note, however, that unlike Android, uninstalling Apple's preinstalled apps doesn't free up any storage space.

-- Leander Kahney, EIC.

The upcoming operating system will let you delete the built-in Find My, Health and Clock apps from your iPhone (or iPad). The company first added the ability to delete some preinstalled system apps in iOS 10, and has expanded the list over the years.

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"We don't get a chance to do that many things, and every one should be really excellent. Because this is our life. Life is brief, and then you die, you know? So this is what we've chosen to do with our life. We could be sitting in a monastery somewhere in Japan." -- Steve Jobs

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