Hide Apple Apps

Apple do not provide a way to manage applications that way,

The closest I could find would be to create a custom profile for "Home Screen Layout Payload" and place the Apps you do not want in a folder.

See: https://developer.apple.com/library/content/featuredarticles/iPhoneConfigurationProfileRef/Introduction/Introduction.html

Hi All,

hiding the apps via SMC would only be possible for supervised iOS devices.
You could achieve that by using an app list and then apply a restriction profile which defines a "Forbidden Apps" list.
Within this list use the identifiers of the built-in iOS apps, e.g. com.apple.Home

For non-supervised devices I do not see a solution for this.

Best regards
Stefan

Hi All,

hiding the apps via SMC would only be possible for supervised iOS devices.
You could achieve that by using an app list and then apply a restriction profile which defines a "Forbidden Apps" list.
Within this list use the identifiers of the built-in iOS apps, e.g. com.apple.Home

For non-supervised devices I do not see a solution for this.

Best regards
Stefan

Would you know where there is a list of the idetifiers for Apple Apps?

Hi Bohdan,

I have created a KBA for this topic which can be found here.

Hope it helps.

Best regards
Stefan

Thank you,

That is above and beyond!

Hi,

many thanks for the list but i do have a question, is this full list only compatible for IOS10 devices? can it not be deposit to 9.3.5? i have uploaded your full list and replaced the apps i already had, the policy fails the install. im guessing that if an app does not exist that it will fail?

still looking into it.

thank in advance

it seems the settings and phone identifiers cause the policy to completely fail.

Make sure the device is DEP enrolled, or under Supervised mode.

thanks, yes its is supervised via DEP enrollment and smc