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'HiddenApps' Hides Stock Apps, iAds and More on Non-Jailbroken iOS Devices [Update: Removed]
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Has anyone figured out if this is malware yet? If it got past Apple, who knows what the app does in the background?
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Exactly. All they need to do is put a category in settings that lets you toggle stock apps.
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Exactly. All they need to do is put a category in settings that lets you toggle stock apps.
All apps in the App Store "got past Apple". They can all be malware. In fact there was a report out today that claims that "Android apps are safer than iOS". The study found that " iOS apps have their fair share of issues and in some respects then can pose an even greater security risk than Android apps. The report covered the top 50 apps from the Apple App Store and Google Play and found that iOS apps exhibited riskier behaviour."
After thinking about it, this app isn't very useful. Sure, I don't have a Newsstand icon anymore, but now I have a HiddenApps icon. I could delete HiddenApps, but if I rebooted, then Newsstand would come back. So I have to keep Hidden Apps around, so next time I reboot I can hide Newsstand again. I didn't gain too much with that. 
It would be much easier if Apple just allowed us to put Newsstand in a folder.
It would be much easier if Apple just allowed us to put Newsstand in a folder.
Doesn't surprise me, especially since Apple's approach encourages a false sense of security.
You can if you jailbreak.
It makes no sense why we can't do this by default, though. It doesn't make sense why we can't do a LOT of things by default. Such as putting an icon into a folder...
It's interesting to think about how you found this. I'm the kind of person who downloads apps (legit, Cydia, and pirated Cydia) just because I can and because they're free, and the closest thing to malware I've seen has been Zynga stuff.
Well I read the article. It's utter nonsense. How exactly does this mean that "Android apps are safer than iOS"?
This qualifies Google Maps and SnapChat as possibly "unsafe". Oh yeah, and apps can't do any of that besides sharing data without asking the user upfront.
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The majority of iOS apps track for location (60%), share data with advertising or analytics networks (60%) and have access to the users contact list (54%). A small percentage of iOS apps also had access to the users calendar (14%), the report found.
Shouldn't all these issues be solved by iOS 6's privacy controls?
You can if you jailbreak.
It makes no sense why we can't do this by default, though. It doesn't make sense why we can't do a LOT of things by default. Such as putting an icon into a folder...
Why does that make sense? It's your phone, you should be able to "choose" to put anything you want on any screen you want.
Not the second one, but you can go into Airplane Mode.
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Answer is no.
Poof wouldn't install properly and my Safari icon was replaced with the Poof download icon. I rebooted and the Poof icon was still where the Safari icon was. Now I don't have Safari any more. DOH!!!!
Update: I removed deleted the Poof icon and rebooted and Safari was still missing. Then I deleted HiddenApps and rebooted and Safari is back. Now there is a Poof icon that shows it's still trying to download. I try deleting the icon but when I click on the x a message warns that I will lose all data. I click on Delete but the icon doesn't disappear.
Now I have an extra new useless icon (i.e. Poof)!
Lesson learned for me.
Update: I removed deleted the Poof icon and rebooted and Safari was still missing. Then I deleted HiddenApps and rebooted and Safari is back. Now there is a Poof icon that shows it's still trying to download. I try deleting the icon but when I click on the x a message warns that I will lose all data. I click on Delete but the icon doesn't disappear.
Now I have an extra new useless icon (i.e. Poof)!
Lesson learned for me.
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Can someone tell me how does this work? We only have access to the library that apple provides. Each app is in its sandbox and can only make service call to predetermined service such as phone book or camera, with my permission. How do u write an app that could get out of the limit that apple sets up?
Why can't Apple make Newsstand an App like iBooks, iTunes U, Podcasts.
Why does it bother people so much? Is it really in the way? Does it stop you from being able to use your phone?
