[iOS 26] App Store Hidden Purchases are incomplete?

[fede777]

Just went to the Hidden Purchases part of the App Store only to realize that my history of hidden apps is incomplete.

It’s showing maybe a couple of months back when it used to be every single app since the first device you ever had from years ago.

Is this new behavior or maybe a bug? Problem with this is you can't re download app that are not available anymore or that you paid.

An Apple rep told me that this could be the issue, which seems weird that's going for 8 days now.

 

[BigBlur]

It’s showing maybe a couple of months back when it used to be every single app since the first device you ever had from years ago.

Is this new behavior or maybe a bug? Problem with this is you can't re download app that are not available anymore or that you paid.

I think you may be confusing this with another part of the App Store. Hidden purchases do not list every single app (unless you hid them all for some reason), nor is it where you re-download your old apps.

To view and re-download your old apps, tap your account in the upper-right corner, then Apps.

If you did indeed hide your purchases...then yes, you would have go into Hidden Purchases to unhide them first, then go to the Apps screen to re-download.

 

[fede777]

I think you may be confusing this with another part of the App Store. Hidden purchases do not list every single app (unless you hid them all for some reason), nor is it where you re-download your old apps.

To view and re-download your old apps, tap your account in the upper-right corner, then Apps.

If you did indeed hide your purchases...then yes, you would have go into Hidden Purchases to unhide them first, then go to the Apps screen to re-download.

Hi, I said correctly, I hide a lot of apps that I try and then delete, like when you are looking for something specific, download 5 apps that do the same, keep one, delete 4, and I hide them, so they are not shown on "not on this iphone".

Those hidden apps, are not on the hidden purchases part of the app store anymore, I can only see apps from february to today, nothing older.

 

[Autokon]

Mine is doing this too. It appears to mimic the same issue on all Apple devices as well: iPhone, iPad, and Mac running the latest versions. What a pain.

The only thing that improved for me was that I unhid an app and it actually returned to my "Not Installed on This iPhone" list. Over the weekend it didn't return, but for some reason today it did.

 

[fede777]

Ok, so it's not just me, hope it gets fixed soon. In the meantime, I'm not hiding anything, just in case.