Deleting apps on apple watch

How to delete apps installed on apple watch?

Apple Watch Series 3, watchOS 7

Posted on Mar 17, 2021 3:09 PM

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Apr 1, 2021 1:31 AM in response to Jabby09

That's an interesting question Jabby09. Which apps are you having trouble deleting? There are apps that I would like to cull from the apps screen too to thin it out. Take Memoji as an example. Using grid view, if I press down on the icon until the icons jiggle, and the Memoji app appears with a x, and then tap on the x I get a screen saying do you really want to do this. Well I am not sure about that so I have not tapped the delete command, but the process seems to work. Equally if I use the list view and swipe the app I get the trash icon so that also seems to work. However, there are apps that don't show with the x or the trash icon and I think they are connected to the iPhone, or built in so that you cannot delete them. So Maps won't delete and Breath will for example.

Apr 1, 2021 9:28 AM in response to Jabby09

Tap on screen time.

Then content and privacy settings

Then iTunes and App Store purchases

Then deleting apps set this to allow.

Install apps set this to allow.

You can now delete apps on the watch.

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