https://club.macstories.net/posts/a-faster-way-to-delete-apps-on-ipados
I’ve been using this technique for such a long time that it’s obvious to me at this point, but I recently discovered that some users aren’t familiar with it, which is why I thought it’d be useful to share it here on MacStories Weekly.
If you’re anything like me, you like to download a lot of apps on your iPad and try them out. Then after a while, you realize you have too many apps installed on your device and want to clean up the list a little bit. We’ve all been there. You can uninstall apps by entering the Home Screen edit mode or from the App Library, and both methods work just fine, but I like to do this another way.
When I want to do some spring-cleaning on my iPad Pro, I open the Settings app and scroll until I see the list of all third-party apps installed. This list is more compact than the App Library and, more importantly, it is left-aligned, which comes into play for the next point. When I identify an app I want to delete, I open Spotlight (which doesn’t cover the list of apps on the left), search for the app, long-press its icon, and hit ‘Delete App’. That’s it.
Sorry, Kindle app.
Like I said, there are a bunch of ways to delete apps from your iPad. But if you find yourself doing this operation in batches on a regular basis, the Settings + Spotlight combo is the fastest method I’ve found to date.
https://club.macstories.net/posts/a-faster-way-to-delete-apps-on-ipados I’ve been using this technique for such a long time that it’s obvious to me at this point, but I recently discovered that some users aren’t familiar with it, which is why I thought it’d be useful to share it here on MacStories Weekly.
If you’re anything like me, you like to download a lot of apps on your iPad and try them out. Then after a while, you realize you have too many apps installed on your device and want to clean up the list a little bit. We’ve all been there. You can uninstall apps by entering the Home Screen edit mode or from the App Library, and both methods work just fine, but I like to do this another way.
When I want to do some spring-cleaning on my iPad Pro, I open the Settings app and scroll until I see the list of all third-party apps installed. This list is more compact than the App Library and, more importantly, it is left-aligned, which comes into play for the next point. When I identify an app I want to delete, I open Spotlight (which doesn’t cover the list of apps on the left), search for the app, long-press its icon, and hit ‘Delete App’. That’s it.
Sorry, Kindle app. Like I said, there are a bunch of ways to delete apps from your iPad. But if you find yourself doing this operation in batches on a regular basis, the Settings + Spotlight combo is the fastest method I’ve found to date.