WHAT I THINK ABOUT THE STUPID STUFF GOING ON IN THE WORLD
I hate the iPhone! It is a well-made phone, but Apple’s control measures are Draconian at best. I’m tired of being told what apps I can and cannot have on my phone. I’m tired of being unable to tether my laptop to my phone. I’m tired of not being able to make phone calls in areas where other people (specifically Verizon’s Crackberry heads) can make calls. The iPhone is great for people who don’t travel across the country, but it is NOT great for people who travel a lot. I need to make the move to the Droid X. Anyway, this rant isn’t about my level of satisfaction with this phone. What this IS about is the fact that there are apps on the phone that I don’t want. I will spare you more of my “hate my phone” speech and just tell you how to remove YouTube, how to remove Safari and how to remove iTunes. First, let me just add that you should be able to just press on it and delete it like you can delete the apps from the app store. Why are Youtube, the stock app, Safari, the weather and the clock special to Apple? Why are they trying to make them special to me? Anyway, here we go.
That is it! You can now have your phone without YouTube, Safari, iTunes, etc. I’m really upset that I have to do this, but I guess you do what you have to do. Making me jump through hoops to remove apps is just very stupid!
Alouise
July 31st, 2010 at 12:22 am
Thanks for the tip. Is there any way to remove the stock app and some of the others that come with the ipod? it’s not in the restriction section and it’s useless to me anyways.
Joan
November 19th, 2010 at 8:38 pm
Thanks for the info! I would have never figured that out on my own. The issue for me is restricting YouTube, Safari and location on my daughters iPhone.
I don’t understand why Apple makes it so hard to use the options they put on their own product.
Smilisav
September 22nd, 2011 at 2:28 pm
Why, you ask?
I don’t know about English, but in my language there is word “mamipara”, which is made of two words “mamiti” (to lure) and “pare” (money). Translation, if exists, would probably be “moneylure”.
Having iTunes on kid’s phone you can be sure (they can make sure) that some of kids will sooner or later steal parent’s credit card number and spend a fortune on music and movies, including Justin Bieber and Rebecca Black.
Would you expect them to show people how to remove “money squeezer” if you already know why they put it there in the first place?
Smilisav
September 22nd, 2011 at 2:38 pm
Now I’m almost sure why Jobs left his CEO position:
Jobs, Wozniak, Markkula and few others were young when they created their enthusiastic project. At first it started making money in normal way. Later some other people infiltrated and right now the whole thing is organized as big blackmail. Jobs wanted to become CEO to try to make things more fair. But he couldn’t fight them quick enough. Roots are too deep.
I bet right now he thinks for himself “OMG, I created a monster!”
Carol
September 23rd, 2011 at 4:18 pm
Thank you. I’ve been trying to figure out how to get u tube off my phone that my 8 year old uses. Yeah. Finally, it’s gone