Sorry, didn't mean hiding apps on the iPhone home screen. I mean in your actual Apple account, there is no way to delete all the useless freeware that I downloaded during the early iPhone days. Try searching for an app that you regret downloading in the App Store, it now has the download button because Apple knows you purchased it before.
Especially embarrassing are the handful of very promising apps that were genuinely great but closed down within a few months or <1-2 years.
In a haze of first-iPhone-excitement, I'd spend a few hundred dollars on in-app content for those apps, telling myself it was like buying great books or whatever.
It then all vanished into thin air when they stopped updating the app and newer iPhones and iOS versions couldn't run them.
I somehow had the mindset that surely, even with no updates, they'll be forced to keep a functioning version, or have to refund me all my money.
Not so.
All that's left now is the app icon in my history.
I, however, think it's far better to have an accurate log of the past apps if there would ever come up some sort of legal situation where that kind of data could help. Idk. Maybe I'm just coping.
Either way, I don't think about it anymore than I do about the thousands of other dumb purchases I've made in my life. Or the many free trials and samples of things that have crossed my path.
Is it annoying that the data about this is stored there forever? Sure, maybe. But maybe not? Maybe it's useful or interesting to look back at?
Overall, I genuinely hope anyone reading this does not look into this beyond the comments here. This is not worth looking into.
-The two small, squares tables in your living room don't have to align perfectly 24/7/365. You take a deep breath and focus on what matters most today.
