Why there is no option to remove App Library on iphones?

This is a user helping other users with tech questions

forum, you are not addressing apple here  just  fellow users

the only apple folk here are the mods who remove post that violate the rules of the forums

you can try

contacting apple Get Support (apple.com)

and or give them

feedback Product Feedback - Apple

Who are you talking to? This is a user-to-user technical support site operated by Apple, no Apple management is here. Go here to send feedback to Apple -> Feedback - iPhone - Apple

You are making the assumption that because you want this that the majority of Apple users want it. I think the vast majority of users don’t even know it exists because they never swipe to the last page. Since Apple added it to iPadOS 15.x I don’t think I it is going away.

Well firstly yes the forum here is the wrong place to complain about this.

However if there is any way to remove it surely the forum is a good place to start.

I'm afraid I agree i hate this app library feature, It is redundant and potentially dangerous for peoples personal privacy and is forcing users to have the feature on the phone whether they like it or not. I do not want anyone and everyone being able to access my phone and it is really easy top swipe left and have a list of all your apps exposed for the world to see.

I have been onto the customer care and nothing can done about it at the moment.

Jodyjal wrote:

Well firstly yes the forum here is the wrong place to complain about this.

However if there is any way to remove it surely the forum is a good place to start.

I'm afraid I agree i hate this app library feature, It is redundant and potentially dangerous for peoples personal privacy and is forcing users to have the feature on the phone whether they like it or not. I do not want anyone and everyone being able to access my phone and it is really easy top swipe left and have a list of all your apps exposed for the world to see.

That is all total nonsense. How can it possibly be a personal privacy issue on a PERSONAL PHONE that is only used by you? And even if someone saw it, what is there to hide? They can see all of your apps on the other pages of your Home screen.

If you don’t want to use it, just don’t swipe to the last page of your Home screen. It’s that simple. I don’t use it often, and, as a result, I never see it.

And no, it will never go away. With iPad OS 15 it was added to iPads, showing that Apple plans to keep it. If you don’t want the App Library you can throw away your phone. That will work. But don’t get an Android; it has the same feature (it actually had it before Apple added it).

Unfortunately that might be good enough for you but it is not for me.

It’s amazing how you can come in a forum and start telling people what they should do about their own lives.

I don’t like the feature and should be able to delete it it if I want to. It is totally irrelevant when the apps are already on your Home Screen.

First you say:

Well firstly yes the forum here is the wrong place to complain about this.

And then proceed to do what? Complain about it. This though is even more special:

I do not want anyone and everyone being able to access my phone and it is really easy top swipe left and have a list of all your apps exposed for the world to see

But, my friend, if they have access to your phone then they can already see all the apps on your phone, plus all your private data. In fact to get to the App Library they have to swipe through all the pages of your Home Screen - thereby seeing all the apps you have before the even get to the App Library. So, frankly, the argument that this represents a privacy issue is specious nonsense.

I don’t like the feature and should be able to delete it it if I want to

This is untrue too. You buy a product as it is offered. If you don't like the offering then get a different product. You install an upgrade as it is offered. You don't get to chop off bits you don't like for incoherent reasons. If you don't like the upgrade, don't install it. If you don't like the OS, don't buy an iPhone.

I am deaf, and I don’t ever use the Phone app. How about Apple removing the Phone app because I don’t use it? That simply doesn’t make much sense in the larger picture. It is much easier for a single user to grow and adapt than for a corporation to change. If you don’t want a particular app or feature then the best thing to do is simply don’t use it.

Jodyjal wrote:

I don’t like the feature and should be able to delete it it if I want to. It is totally irrelevant when the apps are already on your Home Screen.

That’s really too bad, because you can’t remove it and most likely will never be able to, so just accept it, as explained in Reinhold Niebuhr’s Serenity Prayer:

God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, 

courage to change the things I can, 

and wisdom to know the difference.

I of course understand what you are saying. I just don’t think it is a good feature.

For example I hate the news feed on the right hand side page with all the widgets. So I delete them all because I don’t want have them on the phone. I would like to have the same option with the App Library page. That’s all.

This is perfectly reasonable:

I would like to have the same option with the App Library page

However, when you spread FUD by saying it is

potentially dangerous for peoples personal privacy

that cannot be left unchallenged.