Why can't I delete apps on my jailbroken iPhone 4 using 5.1?

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Roboboy64 @roboboy64

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Why can't I delete apps on my jailbroken iPhone 4 using 5.1?

I believe this counts as repair, if only virtually. I have a semitethered jailbroken iPhone 4 running iOS 5.1. Just recently, I tried to delete one of my appstore apps; I held on one of them until they all started shaking, then pressed the "X" over the app I wanted to delete. But to my horror, the thing then proceded to do a respring without deleting anything! Any help would be appreciated...

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Well, I'm sure a lot of iPhone users might be looking for this much needed information about how to delete apps on iPhone right now. Keep in mind that these apps can take up a lot of space on your device, so this article aims to teach you how to delete apps that you no longer use or need to improve the performance of your iPhone.

iPhone Data Eraser is such a powerful tool for iPhone users to delete unnecessary apps, the deleted apps can not be recover any longer. It can delete iPhone apps permanently and thoroughly.

Read the details from: http://how-delete-iphone-data.blogspot.c...

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Well, I'm sure a lot of iPhone users might be looking for this much needed information about how to delete apps on iPhone right now. Keep in mind that these apps can take up a lot of space on your device, so this article aims to teach you how to delete apps that you no longer use or need to improve the performance of your iPhone.

iPhone Data Eraser is such a powerful tool for iPhone users to delete unnecessary apps, the deleted apps can not be recover any longer. It can delete iPhone apps permanently and thoroughly.

Read the details from: http://how-delete-iphone-data.blogspot.c... — Todd June

LTam @ltam Rep: 49 1 · Answer 1 · 2012-04-01T18:04:37-07:00

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I have the same problem. A work around is to delete the app from the Settings>General>Usage.

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Pedro Santana @pedrosantana Rep: 13 1 · Answer 2 · 2014-06-15T10:23:45-07:00

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I had the same problem. Yet could not delete from the "usage" section. So this is how I finally was able to delete apps

Settings

General

Restrictions

Allow...delete apps

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Alastair Riddle @alastairriddle Rep: 181 2 2 1 · Answer 3 · 2012-04-01T05:21:12-07:00

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I have same issue any ideas?

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HUH @huh31371 Rep: 1 · Answer 4 · 2012-04-11T08:03:47-07:00

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sweet! It works... Yay! I been wondering how to delete these apps from this jb phone

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Alina axinte @alinaaxinte Rep: 1 · Answer 5 · 2012-06-04T04:58:53-07:00

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i have the same problem with u the x doesn't work n got stuck

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Tarek Sibay @tareksibay Rep: 1 · Answer 6 · 2012-06-11T15:48:46-07:00

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u can go with safemode and make the delete for any app ;)

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Raye Brittain @rayebrittain Rep: 1 · Answer 7 · 2012-09-15T15:41:39-07:00

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I had the same problem for days.. finally someone on here gave me the fix.. go to Settings:General:usage click the one you want to delete and boom there ya go all gone...OMG I can't be happier.. thanks to the one who gave me the answer

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angelloy @angelloy Rep: 1 · Answer 8 · 2014-01-06T19:32:35-07:00

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If your Apps don't includ iOS, you are surely able to delete Apps from iPhone, do all of your 3rd party apps no longer show the delete "x" when wiggling? If so, try the following steps as needed with iPhone Data Eraser:

1. Restart phone

2. Reset phone (no data loss): press both home and power buttons for at least 10 seconds, releasing when the Apple logo appears

3. Settings > General > Reset > Reset All Settings

4. Restore iOS using iTunes, also restoring a backup

5. Restore iOS as new, without using a backup

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quentinal @quentinal Rep: 1 · Answer 9 · 2014-01-23T01:26:26-07:00

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To uninstall apps on iPhone, you can simply do the following:

1) hold your finger on either the icon for the application you wish to uninstall or any other icon until the icons on your home screen begin to shake or wiggle (the same action you take to move or re-arrange home screen icons)

2) click the "x" in the upper left hand corner of the icon for the application you wish to remove

3) delete the application from your iTunes applications tab

If you want to delete apps on iPhone permanently, you can click iOS data eraser tool to know more.

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runobros @runobros Rep: 1 · Answer 10 · 2014-02-26T02:47:29-07:00

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I took the following steps to delete apps on iPhone permanently from my iTunes library. I use a MacBook Air and iTunes 11.0.04:

Open iTunes

Go to the Library drop down box

Select Apps

Click on individual app, press delete and hit enter

Confirm decision

Read more about iPhone Data Eraser here.

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Shirley @shirley34406 Rep: 523 4 1 1 · Answer 11 · 2014-06-12T20:35:09-07:00

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Yes, iPhone Data Eraser is absolutely the proper app to delete all types of iPhone data, including apps. If you are using Windows, I recommend you try this tutorial: How to Delete Apps on iPhone

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eveman22 @eveman22 Rep: 1 · Answer 12 · 2014-08-05T22:50:11-07:00

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I had the similar problems too. Someone introduced me an iPhone manage tool called iPhone Manager(need to pay for it). i did somehow buy it. Works pretty fine on managing kinds of iPhone files on computer without iTunes. Like to transfer files from iPhone to computer or from computer to iPhone.

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Kylo Spencer @kylenser Rep: 1 · Answer 13 · 2016-05-17T20:53:01-07:00

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Deleting files you have in your android or iPhone is now easy to do with data eraser tool sites you can be able to manage it and have a safer data deletion in your device. With the help of this data eraser tool how to delete everything from iPhone.

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