You can't uninstall apps in iOS 10 Beta, Apple says that you can only "remove" them

At WWDC 2016 , Apple brought some cheer to haters of Apple’s default apps by announcing that iOS 10 would let you “remove” stock apps from the homescreen. Unfortunately, the keyword there is “remove” and not “uninstall.”

It turns out that when you “remove” a stock Apple app by hitting the ‘x’ button in the corner, you’re only deleting all configuration files and user data and not the app itself. The app will still be stored on your device, but there will be no way to access it. The only way to restore functionality is to reinstall it from the App Store.

Removing the stock apps do come with some caveats. For example, removing the Music or PodCasts app disables CarPlay functionality.

You can also remove apps like Calculator, which will then also disappear from the Control Centre, but Apple hasn’t said anything about replacing default apps and customizing the Control Centre.

While it is disappointing that you can’t actually delete an app from your device, Apple insists that the bundled stock apps don’t take up more than 150MB of space on your device.

If you can’t actually delete apps to save space and “removing” them creates problems, we might as well stick to the tried and tested technique of stuffing all the unused apps into one folder and muting them in the Notification Centre.

Come on, Apple! You can do better than that!