You’ve probably reluctantly lent your iPhone to someone else, because you didn’t want other people to open certain apps. And it’s completely legal. It’s not that we hide state secrets on our mobile, but in the end, it’s obvious that there is some private content that we want to protect from the eyes of others.
Well, with iOS 18, two new features related to this are coming. And that’s it We can hide apps and also protect others with passwords. This is what many users have been asking Apple for years so as not to have to resort to other more complex tricks and it has finally happened in a very simple way.
How to Protect iPhone Apps with iOS 18
The two new features that iOS 18 brings to protect apps certainly go hand in hand, given that on the one hand We can only protect them with Face ID and they remain visible. In this case, we can continue to see them on the home screen and when we search for them, but when we try to open them, we will be asked to recognize our face or fingerprint. If we do not succeed, it will be the iPhone security code that will unlock it.
This is what the hidden apps folder looks like in the “App Library” with iOS 18
On the other hand, we can make them completely hidden and impossible to locate even by typing their name into the search engineFor practical purposes, it will be like not having them installed, although there are obviously ways to access them.
What happens when we hide an app with iOS 18 is that They are hiding in a new section of the Application Librarywhich is always the last screen on the right. At the bottom, we will see that a new section appears called Hidden in which you can’t even preview the icons of the apps we have hidden. And of course, to access them we will have to identify ourselves with Face ID/Touch ID or the iPhone code.
THE steps to protect and/or hide apps They are that simple.
- Locate the app icon on your iPhone.
- Press and hold the icon until a menu with options opens.
- Click on Request Face ID/Touch ID.
- Choose the option Request Face ID/Touch ID if you want it to remain visible, but protected or click on Hide and require Face ID/Touch ID if you want it to be hidden in the as well Application Library.
And what if you want to unprotect it? To remove an application from the folder Hidden or stop requiring ID to open it, we will have to follow identical steps. Once you hold down its icon, you can choose the option Face ID/Touch ID is not required and it will go back to normal.
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