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Stop Others from Deleting Apps on Your iPhone running iOS 14
Recent versions of iOS come with a Screen Time feature that lets you keep track of your smartphone usage. Interestingly, you can use it as parental control to restrict certain apps and features. Here, we’ll be using it to restrict the ability to delete apps. This will help you stop your children, friends, family, or anyone for that matter from unnecessarily uninstalling apps from your iPhone.
Steps to Prevent Apps from Being Deleted on iOS 14
That’s it. You will no longer be able to uninstall apps on your iPhone. The “Delete App” option will no longer appear in the home screen menu. Even if you go to Settings > General > iPhone Storage, you won’t find the option to Delete any installed applications. To delete apps from your iPhone, repeat the steps and disable the restriction by setting “Deleting Apps” to Allow. Once done, you can normally remove apps from your iPhone.
Apps Get Automatically Deleted from your iPhone?
Do apps get automatically removed from your iPhone even if no other person except you has access to it? Well, if certain apps require re-downloading when you want to open them, you might have enabled automatic app offloading. Starting iOS 11, Apple introduced a dedicated “Offload Unused Apps” feature. When enabled, it automatically removes unused apps from your phone to free up space. However, the app data and associated files will stay intact- you can continue after installing the app. If you don’t want iOS to delete apps automatically, you can turn off the Offload Apps feature, as follows:
Wrapping Up
We hope you now know how to stop others from deleting apps on your iPhone using the Screen Time restrictions. Furthermore, you can disable automatic app offloading if your iPhone is removing apps automatically. Stay tuned for more iOS tips and tricks. Also, read- 5 Ways To Fix iCloud Storage is Full Issue on iPhone.
