[LINK] What your choice of smartphone says about you

[David]

On Monday 09 January 2017 18:00:58 Ivan Trundle wrote:

> Almost all apps on an iPhone can be removed, or disabled. The only ones which cannot be removed are Messages, Photos, Camera, Settings, Safari and Clock because they are integral to the system. 
> 
> The choice of using the other apps is entirely up to the user, and alternatives can be used to access the camera, send messages and browse the web.

Apple have a piece about this on their website at https://support.apple.com/en-au/HT204221 and it's quite recent (December 2016).  Apparently one can remove some built-in apps from the Home Screen but whether this means they're completely removed isn't clear; apparently they have to be restored from the App Store so maybe they are.

There's quite a long list of apps which can be deleted.

However there may be flow-on effects, for example:  "If you remove the Stocks or Weather app from your Home screen, stocks and weather won’t be available elsewhere.  For example, you won’t see stocks and weather information in Notification Center on your iPhone or as Complications or Glances on your Apple Watch."

How did Life become this complicated?

I've tried to remove unwanted pre-installed apps from someone's Samsung Android smartphone but with no success.

David L.